Pangea Vlog #2

After an amazing gig in Bangalore, we were going to play at home in a couple of days. We love playing in Bombay. Familiar faces, lots of love and support, these gigs are always special. I was very excited to shoot this vlog for the same reason. I also had help from my friends who …

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Pangea Vlog #1

In the last blog, I spoke about how I wanted to keep myself busy and motivated and wanted to generally become more productive in life. I have some of the best memories of travelling with my band Pangea and these memories needed to be documented so I decided to film our journey. We were travelling …

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Work Harder

I was sitting at home one afternoon, watching random Youtube videos when this video titled 'The $21,000 First Class Airplane Seat' popped up in my feed. I was obviously very curious and started watching this guy describing his experience on the flight in a very animated & unique way. I was instantly hooked. I went …

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Riatsu – ‘Reminiscence’

2 days had passed since I had been researching on serial killers. I wanted to get in a very dark zone and create a piece of music on it. I know that sounds weird but sometimes I have to put myself in uncomfortable conditions that makes my mind work and gets the creative juices flowing. …

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Pangea goes on Tour

Since our first live performance at blueFROG, Mumbai, we as a band had never gone on a multi city tour. We have always felt that intimate settings like clubs are more suited to Pangea's live experience compared to big stages. There is something about playing to people at close proximity that helps build the vibe …

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Social Media for Bands

Y'all may know that I am part of an instrumental, progressive band called Pangea. It started as a studio project and now we have been lucky to have a full fledged live band with some really talented people. We recently played 3 cities and the response has been very overwhelming so far. We are currently …

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This is NG, taking. Recording in a studio for the first time.

For an independent band, its quite natural to record stuff in friend's bedrooms or makeshift studios. That's how we started. 'Snails are when I was young' was recorded in Kuber's house and the production shifted along with Kuber's different homes. First in Andheri, then at Khar. Jai records at Yashraj Studios quite a bit. Shantanu Hudlikar …

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Pangea – Snails are when I was young

I am part of an instrumental progressive band from Mumbai, India called Pangea. It started as a studio project that Akshay Rajpurohit of Scribe started cause he was interested in  making music he wouldn't get to create with his band. Akshay and I know each other since the 8th grade and while we never spoke …

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