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The year 2012 was a tough one for pop-folk-rock act Faridkot. There was a sense of fatigue in their performances, three core members of the band quit, their gigs became dull and the band’s new sound was missing. One day, the three remaining members of the band — Rajarshi Sanyal, IP Singh and Sahil Khoji Mendiratta — locked themselves in a room with the sole aim of creating something new.
Two years later, the band’s calendar is inked with gigs across the country to promote their second album, Phir Se? The boys are back with a 10-track album that is bound to put them in the limelight again. “When the three of us began work on new material two years ago we all connected in a way. It was all about pushing boundaries, figuring out what’s worth it and what’s not. Phir Se? is about all the realisations we have had and the stories we have acquired,” says Singh, 28, the vocalist of the eight-year-old outfit. Faridkot began their six-city tour with a gig in Delhi last week.
“We heard a lot of electronic music since our last album. And we have tried creating electronic music using the instruments we play. It is the future after all,” says Sanyal, the 25-year-old lead guitarist of the band. It’s their track Faridkot that summarises the personal stories of the band members and the lessons they learnt. Sanyal also doubles up as Faridkot’s manager and has produced the band’s self-financed Phir Se? Probe him about the question mark in the album’s title and he laughs for a few seconds before saying, “This is an inside joke. There are sounds on loop in the songs, right? So, ‘phir se?’ just fits,” he says.
The story appeared in print under the headline Lost and Found
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