3 layers of minimal guitars.
POD Farm + POD Gx, recorded on Audacity.

Space floating (rough cut)

Music & Lyrics : Ajay Menon
Sound : Ranjit Negi (https://soundcloud.com/negiranjit)
Drum Programming : Soumitra Chakravarti (https://soundcloud.com/soumitra-chakravarti)

Lyrics : 
When I looked at you
It didn't seem you'd care
And all I could do
was just stand and stare

What brought us closer
I'd never know
And all this hostility
Is all just for show 

Fate brought me here
I saw you change
I don't understand
Why you'd feel strange

Oh its a pity
You're no longer there

When I followed you
In your footsteps
Was all the attention
That I could get

The more that you run
The more you're astray
Please hold my hand
I'll show you the way 

I hold her closer 
The passion unwinds
Flames engulfed us
While I stood aside

Oh its a pity
You're no longer there...

No longer there

Based on a Sci-fi story I attempted to write.
The droney space sound with war drums was an attempt to give it a feeling of an impending space battle.

Here's an excerpt on which this sound is based : 

"We the Krelians were thought to be a peaceful race. Our past was never marred with incidents of war or devastation. Through the millenium our combat skills became a vestige and redundant. But a century back when the attacks started we floated through space and eventually seeked refuge amongst the Donians. Donians were the pillars of justice in the universe, few in number, but they used their scarcity as a weapon. Bringing down armies without them even knowing it. 
They protected us. They gave us shelter.
But then, General Yhur wielded the power to rule. He led the Donians on to a new path.
Where compassion was forfeit.
Our existence deemed pointless.
And so we counted down our days.
Our turrets aimed at us. 
Cornered in space.

But fear for our lives was not what bothered us.
There was a reason we were a peaceful race. And abstaining from violence wasn't one of them.
We held a key to unleash a force.
And it was within each of us.
Every single one of us."

The start of Krelian Wars

A track based on mixed influences from Nine Inch Nails and Porcupine Tree. Resorted to complete MIDI and Vocal recording. 

Lyrics : 
If i could fall
from the edge of the world
I'll spread my arms
And close my eyes, I'm done.

Break into pieces 
Feel the head collapse
A million directions 
Shards of me are gone

If I can tell you
What is left of me
I won't be there 
For all I'm left is burnt

Break

This started out as a side track to a main track I was working on. Slowly got precedence because I didn't seriously think this through. 

I thank Sukrit Nagaraj(https://soundcloud.com/sukrit-nagaraj) for the guitar!

Finity

There was once a lion, who planned on asceticism. Never tried to be one with nature. Till one hot day when the sun shone the brightest burning everything around him. He was robbed of everything he had apart from one thing. His handycam.

The Lion Who Sold His Handycam

I never wanted a polished sound anyway!
__________________
Photography turned to images
And now
Images turned to Instagram
Just to
Fake a pre planned nostalgia
Cause we
Think that's what we are

If Images define what we really are
Then we're 
Two dimensional playing cards
Just like 
Jack of Diamond, King of Hearts...
Burn all
Burn all your SLR's

[Experiments can think about themselves now]
Just give me back the photo quietly now
We don't want a
A mess around
Lets strike a deal
That's what I feel
Or else these bloody wounds
They will never heal...

Stop it now
This is fucking Blackmail!

Hidden Agenda

Being a nerve slashingly loco fan of the song I know my life would eventually revolve around doing a cover of this song.

My life is now complete!

Friday(Rebecca Black Cover)

Lyrics:
Give me a chance to deny it,
Kill it before it grows again,
Stepping on other things you never knew were yours,
Just give me a chance to fight it.

I'll keep things in my head, 
Not release it.
Just give me a chance to try again.

Have you ever lost what you never had?

What if all of this went as we pleased.
Would I still be the same.
I swear I'll behave when I'm done with this.
I'm scared I'll be something else but me.

Give me a chance to be gone.
Maybe we'll forget this when we're done.

Have you ever lost what you never had?


Forgetting Loss

In order to not go nuts sitting at home, I'm trying to channel some of this newfound time to experiment with some music. This was a product of messing around on the iPad with a healthy dose of Garageband and iMovie.

Isolation

I'm a sentient toaster capable of paying exorbitant rent. 

This track is not available anymore.

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