Life experiences, the books they’ve learn and their travels play the muse for the three-man band ManaKarma
The earlier 12 months gave everybody ample time to mirror on the street not taken. It was the identical with Nitin Navratna, Sumantu Kaushik and Ashwin Naidu.
The trio used be engineering batchmates in JBIET, Hyderabad; in addition they had a band ‘Rev’ and carried out often. “Whereas in faculty, we notched closed to 25-30 gigs between 2005-09, taking part in each Hindi and English numbers,” laughs Nitin, the band’s vocalist.
Although the band catered to public tastes and performed covers, Nitin was all the time writing notes on what may some day flip into lyrics. Although careers finally took centrestage, they stayed in contact and questioned if they’d ever jam once more. “To this, Ashwin, who was our bass guitarist, would all the time say, ‘ManaKarma’, which in Telugu means ‘Our future,’ — that if it was in our karma, we’d re-band,” reminisces Nitin.
In 2017, work took Nitin to Indonesia and entailed numerous travelling. “I used to be all the time writing at any time when I had the time, in between flights.” When Ashwin visted Indonesia in 2018, he and Nitin had an opportunity to jam once more and so they started to discover the concept of their very own music.
Nitin pulled out all his notes and crafted a tune known as ‘BinTan’ about his experiences in Indonesia; collectively he and Ashwin composed round 5-6 songs in these few days. They despatched it to Sumantu, the group’s guitarist, and he high quality tuned it.
In 2020, they determined to lastly get their music going even when it was nearly. It was Nitin’s spouse Nalini who set the wheels in movement, roping in Ashwin and Sumantu to finish ‘BinTan’ so it may very well be launched in time for her husband’s birthday in Might 2020.
“She knew we liked the method of creating music. Our aim was not make it large within the music trade, however at the least create at the least 200 songs earlier than our time was up — simply put our songs on the market for individuals to take heed to and give you their very own interpretations as a result of our music is about our life experiences,” says Nitin.
Present affairs, the books they’ve learn and the locations they’ve travelled to are all grist to the ManaKarma mill.
Although Nitin is predicated out of Singapore and Ashwin and Sumantu are within the US, ManaKarma has three songs out and one other seven lined up, with an album within the making as soon as they can meet in particular person at a recording studio.
ManaKarma will be heard on Spotify, Amazon, iTunes and Youtube.
