Engineering to music, a rhythm easy

By Sukant Deepak

New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS): It began throughout the engineering days of the dual duo, Sagar & Sahil, once they would collectively make music together with their cousin Mohit Deen, who on the time was finding out sound manufacturing and engineering at ‘Beat Manufacturing unit’ within the nationwide capital. Sahil performed the piano whereas Sagar performed the guitar and determined to make movies as properly. All of the band members are engineers. And sure, none of them is a professionally skilled musician.

The New Delhi-based Indie band, ‘Twin Strings’ has collaborated with various artists, together with Nupur Sanon, Pavitra Krishnan, Raghav Chaitanya, Rashmeet Kaur and Akanksha Bhandari, and have taken YouTube by storm with their trending covers which have garnered thousands and thousands of views, had been on a lookout to search out the fourth member who could be their lead vocalist once they found Manav on Instagram.

“In mid-2017, we found him on social media singing an off-the-cuff cowl of a Fortunate Ali traditional. Manav at that time was working in an IT MNC. Ever since his childhood days, he had primarily been a keyboardist, having been part of one in every of India’s most recognised metallic bands “Guillotine,” amongst others. Nonetheless, it was his voice that caught our consideration,” remembers Sagar.

In July 2017, the band launched the first-ever cowl monitor in collaboration with Manav — titled ‘Raabta’, submit which they went on to do quite a few collaborations with him till 2019 when he joined the band as a full-time singer.

“The rationale I’m singing right this moment is that Sahil-Sagar satisfied me to take action…” smiles Manav.

The band members have carried out in main cities, together with Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Banglore, Pune and Bhopal, and at main festivals like ‘Horn Okay Fest Delhi’, ‘Beeredup Fest Delhi’, ‘Social Nation Mumbai’ and ‘Temper Indigo’ stress the shift from engineering to music was fairly easy.

“All of us had been working in company set-ups. When folks began appreciating our music and began calling us for dwell gigs, we mutually determined to get into music full-time. It was one one of the best selections thus far,” says Sagar.

Whereas admitting that social media has an vital function to play in any up to date unbiased artist’s profile, Sahil asserts, “It does matter lots on this period of reels and content material creation. However that’s not every little thing. There are extra vital issues one must deal with, social media is simply part of it.”

Whereas the post-pandemic period has seen a dramatic decline within the variety of concert events, exhibits and sponsorships, issues are wanting up for ‘Twin Strings’.

“For us, issues have been nice and we have now probably not felt any type of decline. Each time we get free time, we’re capturing one thing or the opposite,” provides Sahil.

Happy that nearly each label, radio station and music web page has began a brand new part for indie music, Sagar says that in up to date instances it’s extra about high quality than having an enormous finances to provide and launch a track.

Whereas main corporates are principally inclined in the direction of huge artists, Sagar and the band members, who will likely be performing in Bahrain, Dubai and Phuket in October, says, “We’re noticing that many firms are coming ahead and contemplating unbiased artists as their principal act.”