Chemirocha Band. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Instrumental rock albums are so rare in the Indian independent music landscape that when such an album comes once in a while, behind it is stories of perseverance and doubt. Chemirocha who just released his debut album Short -term fantasy of a double -winged dreamThe instrumental album of progressive rock with a touch of pop punk also has a story to be shared.
Banker Arjun J.Satheesh and sound designer Nitin started working on the album almost ten years ago. Both were part of the active independent scene of rock music in Kerala in mid -2000, while Arjun was a guitarist for bands like Soulburn, while Nitin is a former bassist of the Metal band Chaos. When they met in Kochi in 2016, they hit the idea of working on the album.
“We both have similar musical tastes. One of the ideas was to mix modern progressive rock with pop-punk and similar genres of 2000, all of which evoked the feeling of nostalgia in us. We started these songs for acoustic guitars without ideas as it would have been for several years to form.
Eight songs in the album do not follow the typical structure of the verse-chorus-version, but it proceeds as a liquid overview of clear dreams, when riffs are rarely repeated. As music flows freely, it also seems that they are the reactions of musicians to specific events in their lives, although they both prefer to leave the task of interpreting the listener.
“Although we initially thought about the singer, later we thought it was a way to go. One of the strengths of instrumental music is that it is open to interpretation in many different ways in different countries and cultures,” says Arjun.
In fact, the name of the band is also the result of such interpretation. It was assumed how the Kipsagis tribe in Keny said the name of the legendary country musician Jimmie Rodgers. The composition recorded by the musicologist in the 1950s. The Century of the Singing “Chemirocha” tribe is now on YouTube. Like the story, the “two -winged” duo can evoke countless interpretations and reactions, each of which is unlike the other. Unlike the name of the album, however, their music will not be “short -term fantasy”.
Published – August 10, 2025 20:44 IS IS
