For the first issue and the first display of Music is Art, we invited Derek Monteiro who is an artist a musician and a poet, to create a work specially for the readers of Raga to Rock. Called The New Age, he uses musical symbols to express his vision.

Any attempt to interpret Monteiro's music would be irreparable, so we would like to share the artist's own musings.

"It is natural for man to love beauty, since beauty, deep within is his essence. Beauty is that which delights the human self; for in contemplating it, the self returns as it were, from the far country, back home to where it truly belongs. The purpose of art may be described as the pursuit, interpretation and expression in the external human world, so that inner beauty which is essentially the intangible, invisible idea I and which all artists desire or should desire."

Derek Monteiro has two albums to his credit - The Mystical Journey and Santa Comes To Clown, a satirical rendition of Christmas Carols. His artistic name is The Little Giggle Ashram.