With their arriving tour, city-based alt-rock rope Daira looks to widespread out and try a forms of their low-pitched expression
(From left) Vikalp Sharma, Shreyansh Kejriwal, Piyush Kapoor, Sourya Mukherjee and Shivam Pant. Pic Courtesy/Fahad Sheikh
Their new single, Sab dhuaan hai, expelled in May 2022, captures a clarity of philosophical oblivious on a temporal inlet of life. It is a distant cry from a angst and glow that one mostly seeks from an indie stone band. Yet, Daira continues to attract their approach by a new reconstruction of a stone transformation in a Indian indie strain space.
“The strain is about anticipating complacency and formidable things. Recently, we suspicion of a detriment of someone like KK, a outrageous artiste, and it was an hapless eventuality that happened. In a end, it ends for everyone. It is a really sad, though philosophical thought,” Piyush Kapoor, vocalist and lyricist of a band, tells us. Formed in 2014, a rope has already put out 3 albums — Daira, Vipreet Buddhi and Itni Jurrat?
The five-member rope of Piyush Kapoor (vocals and lyrics), Shreyansh Kejriwal (drums), Sourya Mukherjee (bassist), Shivam Pant and Vikalp Sharma (guitars) is set to start a cross-country debate this month. The timing is good, Mukherjee believes, “I consider with people being cooped adult in their homes during a lockdown, stone strain has turn a good outlet.” The rope has high hopes to channelise this while on a debate that will cover Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata, Raipur and Mumbai. The live performances give a rope a possibility to strech out to their bottom audience, Mukherjee adds.
The bassist explains that lovers of indie-rock are by inlet giveaway thinkers and seekers. “There is an component of being some-more open.” A elementary review with a band, or any laxity with their music, is explanation of a above statement. From self-admitted influences of Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Rammstein to normal Indian low-pitched forms of exemplary and folk find their approach into their compositions. Kapoor himself hails from Lucknow, explaining his bent to consider and emanate in Hindi. Quite discordant to an indie-rock vocalist, he says, “I do adore aged Bollywood songs and ghazals.” This has warranted their strain a sobriquet of ‘Awadhi rock’. Kapoor says, “We use Awadhi especially since of a low-pitched influences. we am from Lucknow, so we move a brew of Hindi and Urdu into my lyrics.”
Guitarist Vikalp Sharma points out that it was a hunt to be opposite that brought a rope together. “We did not devise on doing an alt-rock devise or initial form of music. Something engaging came out of a sessions spontaneously, and that was a plan. We wanted to do something new”
Mukherjee explains that a collective’s seductiveness in strain is also diverse. “Whatever inspires us find a approach into a music. It is not conformed to a template,” he concludes.
With an untitled singular scheduled for recover in a subsequent 3 months, a rope is looking to enhance a low-pitched horizons as it moves forward.
On Jun 9; 8pm onwards
At Antisocial, Mathuradas Mill Compound, Lower Parel.
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Cost Rs 499
