Guitarist, Singer, Producer, Occasionally play some other instruments as well.


We play melodic rock inspired by the 80's AOR music scene.

Band members :
Sagar Sharma - Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals
Aham Saxena -  Bass, Guitars
Gautam Jain - Vocals

‘A’- non, ‘dvaita’ – dual, Advaita means experiencing all as “One”. To the uninitiated, Advaita is an eclectic fusion band based in New Delhi, India. It is the expression of eight distinct musical sensibilities that dissolve into each other to bring forth a truly unique and ingenious sound.The “Advaita Experience” is defined by the pursuit of that incredible moment during performance when the musician becomes the music and forgets his own identity, resulting in thoroughly electrifying stage performances.

Since their inception in 2004, Advaita has been established as one of the most thrilling, innovative and original acts on the Indian music scene, with the unique reputation of enthralling audiences in any kind of setting – from corporate events and Music festivals to pub gigs and college shows. Hailed by music lovers and media alike, the band is now a well respected entity on the cultural map of both Delhi and India.

Advaita was one of only four bands from India selected by famous producer John Leckie (who has worked with the likes of Pink Floyd, George Harrison and Radiohead) to record two songs with him for a compilation released by the British council. As part of this project, called the India Soundpad Project, the band toured the UK playing 6 shows in 5 cities, including opening the famous Great Escape Festival in Brighton.

In March 2009 Advaita launched their first album on EMI records titled 'Grounded in Space' which further catapulted the status of the band. Recorded at the famed Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai, the album spent 4 weeks at number one on the International charts at the Music World stores for all of Delhi.

The year 2010 saw Advaita being featured on the Indian leg of the popular MTV shows ‘MTV Coke Studio’ and ‘MTV Unplugged’. Advaita's video, 'Rasiya', was also featured on MTV Roots.

The band (Feb2012) launched their much awaited second album ‘The Silent Sea’ on EMI records. The second album was also recorded at Yash Raj studios in Mumbai and mixed by Shantanu Hudlikar.

Advaita recently played at Johannesburg, South Africa where they were a part of the shared history festival (Teamworks). Advaita played at the Eldos Jazz Festival and the Bassline club.

Advaita has recently won the GIMA (Global Indian Music Awards) 2012 award for Best rock album 2012 for their album -The Silent Sea! They also received a nomination under the Best fusion album (the silent sea) along with artistes like A.R Rahman, Anoushka Shankar, Karsh Kale etc. Their track ‘Gorakh’ was nominated for GIMA awards 2011.


Crypto Cipher is the result of an amazing journey of challenges and pleasant discoveries prodded by our love for sounds, which saw the light of the day in late 2010. Traverse through this melodic journey, we have captured and recorded rare sounds that we believe can very well be the answer to a variety of your musical requirements. One thing led to another and now we are a fully equipped sample library development audio lab that offers affordable, authentic sounding and high-quality sample instruments. We record performances by top-notch artists and raw organic sounds, which can be easily synced with any type of music production.


Our Kontakt-based sample instruments have been designed with the aid of unique, highly engineered techniques. Needless to say, modern music composers will find them extremely advantageous in creating background score for television/films and games without running through the conventional process.

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I’m just a guy trying to make cool stuff before the heat death of the universe. Occasionally, I succeed. Hopefully this is one of those times.

'This was a fun session. Writing and recording with Simon Harrison from 3 ZERO RECORDS; a fine engineer and producer (and he likes my taste in guitars) from the AOR classic band, ATLANTIC. Micky Barker from MAGNUM on drums along with Ian Danter, Simon Harrison on guitars along with Steve Harris and Loz Rabone, I covered the lead vox and the bass, and a mass of other people turned up over the whole twelve month recording and writing session. Rock, Blues, RnB, was pretty much where it headed, but it never saw the light of day. Some tracks lost but not forgotten. The band was called, ' DAKOTA JOE'. Rock n roll!

Tony Mills



We’re a Delhi based Six member band. We share a common love for great melodies, awesome sound and well, beer.


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