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| Two new tracks will be specially composed for this project and will see the band return to the fabulous Yash Raj studios in Mumbai for the recording in October. | ||||||||||||||||
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| November 2007: Advaita records first full length album | ||||||||||||||||
| Advaita have recorded their first full length album at the state of the art Yash Raj studios in Mumbai. The experience was a life changing one for the members - two weeks in the most buzzing city of India, recording their music in the best studio in the country. The album, is in the process of being mixed and mastered and should be out in a few months. Watch this space!!! |
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| November 2007: Advaita inaugurates SAARC Bands Festival | ||||||||||||||||
| Advaita were bestowed with the honour of innaugurating the SAARC bands festival held at the 'Central Park - Connaught Place'. The three day extravaganza featuring the best bands from all ther Saarc countries was flagged of by Union minister of Defence Mr. Pranab Mukherjee and Delhi Chief Minister Ms Sheela Dixit |
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| June 2007 : Sahi Bol lauched | ||||||||||||||||
| Sahi Bol - the urban transmission, a double Cd compilation of the best of the music scene in Delhi has been launched by the label SaReGaMa India Ltd and will be out in music stores soon. The compilation features a wide array of artists and a delightful palette of musical styles and genres which showcase the great amount of musical talent existing in Delhi.
Advaita's track Light (acoustic) has been featured on one of the Cds. We are proud to be associated with the this project, as it is one which celebrates the wonderful music fraternity of the city we have grown up in as human beings as well as musicians. For more information please visit www.sahibol.com |
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| October 2006: Advaita makes song for Thompson Aids Foundation | ||||||||||||||||
| Advaita have joined an effort to help the cause of AIDS awareness issues through the medium of music. Initiated by the Thompson Aids foundation in collaboration with Prospect Inc, the endavour is to release a music Cd featuring bands from accross India and spreading a more positive message for the battle against AIDS. Advaita have written a track especially for this called 'Mere Yaar' which can now be heard on the Our Music section. | ||||||||||||||||
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| September 2006: CNN IBN makes video for Durga | ||||||||||||||||
| The news channel CNN IBN has made a music video out of Advaita's track 'Durga'. The video, shot by Reshil Charles, captures the spiritual dimension of the band who perform in a temple, in the backdrop of people praying and chanting. We will be uploading the video on this site soon |
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November 2005 : Advaita demo CDs printed The band has made several copies (artwork and all) of its five song demo containing the tracks : 1) Gates of Dawn |
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| January 2006 : Suhail and Anindo play with Talvin Singh at Jaipur Viraasat Festival | ||||||||||||||||
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After finishing their performance at Turquoise Cottage sometime in December 2005, the band was pleasantly surprised to find they had a visitor in the form of the international superstar and ‘fusion music’ stalwart, Talvin Singh. Apparently he had read an article on the band and thought the music could be interesting. Talvin had in-fact also interacted and played with Suhail, and his family when he was a little kid (not that he isn’t a little kid now). We're still waiting Talvin.... 'like long ago, Amir Khusro, those kind of flows, those kind of flows......' |
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| February 2006 : Advaita Feature on NDTV show – Face the Music | ||||||||||||||||
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| Advaita shot three episodes for the new NDTV show called Face the Music hosted by Vir Sanghvi. The show combined conversation with music and featured, amongst other guests, three famed musicians whom the band jammed with Live – Rabbi Shergill, Shibani Kashyap and Vasundhara Das. The band also played its original music on the show. | ||||||||||||||||
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| March 2006 : THINK FLOYD – a tribute to Pink Floyd | ||||||||||||||||
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Three members of the band, Chayan (vocals), Anindo (keys, special fx) and Abhishek (guitars) were part of a huge ensemble of musicians that came together to be part of Think Floyd, a tribute band to Pink Floyd. The show took place at the TVB Institute for Habitat Studies, Vasant Kunj and was an absolute spectacle, with around twelve musicians, three sound guys and an entire lights and visual effects team working together to try and attempt re-create the experience of a Floyd show. The band and the concept has been initiated by Chintan of Parikrama and plans are being made to take the show all over India. |
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| April 2006 : Gates of Dawn opens FC1 – a compilation CD of Delhi bands brought out by FIRST CITY | ||||||||||||||||
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Gates of Dawn, an electronic Advaita track, featuring vocal performances by Ravi Singh (guest vocalist, previously of the band Themclones) and our very own Ujwal Nagar (Hindustani Classical Vocals), is the opening track of the FC1 CD released by First City. The CD showcases original songs of ten bands from Delhi and is in our opinion a terrific initiative taken by the magazine to help the cause of the underground music scene in Delhi. To promote the CD, a concert was held at Climax, a club in south Delhi where there were rocking performances by Advaita and Menwhopause. The bands also got to jamm onstage with Salman Ahmed of Junoon who was really enamoured by our sound. There were some glorious moments of ‘freestyle’ jamming between Arpan (bass), Suhail (Sarangi) and Salman. |
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