EC Acoustic - The World According To E

EC Acoustic - Emaan

A dark and dramatic tune exploring the concept of Death.
Spoken word contains extracts from Khalil Gibran's Wisdom.
Hear Empty Cafe at their heaviest!


04 Bhairav

A progressive Funk song. Its called what its called because it is what it is and not what its not.
Groove to off odd meter funk fusion!


03 Whatever Its Called

Wounded. A plead for forgiveness.
Empty cafe at their deepest, most human self.

02 Wounded

'Dont let no one tell you that you cant do something that you really want to do'.
Funk Funk Funk!

01 Jumping Jack

Empty Café is a fusion of not just two instruments, but cultures and genres of music, 
originating in opposite corners of the world.
Empty Café started off in the winter of 2007, when Vinay Kaushal accidentally went to 
college one day to find that flautist Gandhaar Amin studied in the same class as him. They started 
playing together in Vinay’s bedroom after they found out that that their musical tastes were 
surprisingly similar. In less than a month, they had already made a song together, which they still 
claim to be the best song they’ve ever made – ‘Wounded’.
They realised that this thing was really going somewhere, and they needed to formalise it. 
Thus, Empty Café was born! 

With influences ranging from John Scofield to John Petrucci, Vinay’s repertoire covers genres 
of blues, jazz and funk. He started learning the guitar in school, and it soon became a big enough 
part of his life to take it up as a profession. That’s when he went to the prestigious GIT, a part of 
Musicians Institute, Hollywood, one of the premier contemporary music institutes in the world. 
Since his return from Los Angeles, he has contributed a lot to the band from the knowledge earned 
from his stint at MI.

Gandhaar has been brought up in a family with a rich musical tradition. Having had a 
professional classical musician for a father, he did not really have a choice but to learn music. He 
started learning Indian Classical music on the bamboo flute at the age of 5. Before he knew it, music 
was what his life was all about, and it was also an obvious choice for a profession, when the time 
came to make that decision. Fortunately, he realised that this life that someone else had chosen for 
him, was what he really wanted.

The name of the band is inspired by Jethro Tull’s classic song Empty Café. It’s a tongue-incheek take on the expectation that their music is not so bad, that a café goes empty. Empty Café as a 
band has been striving to create a new image for ‘fusion music’, which is very different from the 
sound that most people associate it with. They believe in actually fusing two genres and instruments 
together rather than just sticking them onto each other superficially.
Empty Café is a regular fixture at a lot of live music venues in Pune and Mumbai. They also 
performed at the NH7 Weekender music festival in 2010. They were invited for the Ladakh 
Confluence in 2010.
They intend to blow away audiences all over the world with their unique sound and deep 
know how of two completely varied genres. Accompanying them are drummer/percussionist Dhir 
Mody and bassist Saiprasad Shankar.



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