Tides From Nebula coming to India

Your ambient blend of instrumental rock and post-rock is a sound rarely heard these days. How do you approach your compositions?

Actually, we can’t really tell what post-rock is; it just sort of happened. We love guitars, atmospheric sounds, space and delays.

Usually, it all starts with a riff or a guitar arpeggio, then we develop something around it that conveys our ideas. There is no real recipe for a song.

Is that why you have called yourselves Tides From Nebula?

We think the name fits our style and our music really well. We work a lot of ideas into our music about consciousness, space and time, and even quantum physics. These ideas make you understand the world very differently. You begin to believe that what you as a human can see, hear, feel, is just an illusion that your brain is creating. This sends shivers down our spines.

Who or what inspires you?

We read a lot of Eckhart Tolle and Ken Wilber and love 70’s science-fiction, especially themed on space odysseys. We also listen to rock bands such as Faith No More, Alice in Chains and Tool, and even classical musicians like Chopin. Off late, however, we’ve been into electronica.

This is your first trip to India. What are you expecting?

We really can’t believe it’s happening. I think it’ll hit us harder after we leave for Delhi. We honestly have no idea what to expect, but we believe it’s going to be a blast. Let’s see how you react to the live music experience we bring.

Tides From Nebula will perform on October 5, at the Bike Festival of India, at Buddh International Circuit in Noida. Tickets available for Rs 1,500 on http://www.bookmyshow.com