Although there is no specific genres, Rishu says, they prefer to keep it a bit towards the “softer side”.Live gigs around the city are helping a fresh crop of musicians bloom in the indie music scene. Sangeeta Vyas, the founder of the space, is an artist herself. “We were looking for spaces which would be more intimate. “The scene is great and with help of greater initiatives we can reach newer heights,” she concludes. From places like Czech Republic, for example, people would message saying they had never thought this kind of music was made in India,” says Rushi. Rishu Singh, founder of ennui. Sharing the experience, Tanvi says, “It was a small, chilled out and cute space that was good because it was our first gig and we weren’t nervous.Currently, the artistes have turned full-time musicians and want to push the envelope on the indie music scene in India.
There was a lot of interaction with the audience that while performing and feedbacks later on,” she says.BOMB, an independent record label which is dedicated to find fresh talents collaborates with alternate spaces in the city for Discovery Nights.Currently, Rishu have collaborated with Cat Café Studio in Versova and held the latest session on June 29.. The whole idea was get musicians who we would not otherwise hear in the more popular spaces like Hard Rock Café or a Bar Stock Exchange,” he adds. The time we started the space, the idea was to create a space for artists to come and share their ideas with each other,” she says. Earlier we would ask young musicians to send their work to us and every year we have a compilation of some of the best works that we receive, which can be downloaded for free from our website. “It’s a bungalow which is done with Indian aesthetics in mind. One of the most noted bands to have performed twice at the Discovery Night sessions is iblinkwhenithink (IBWIT), formed by Rishav Kapur and Tanvi Dhobale earlier this year.
