It’s only the second time the Chennai-based band Sapta’s come to Hyderabad, as part of their album concert tour recently. Having come up with a self-titled album (their seventh in over nine years), they gave the small audience at The Farm World Café, a taste of their musical abilities. The live performance of the numbers was completely in sync with the album’s emphasis to sound more like ‘live music’.
Offering details on the album that’s been in the making for one and a half years now, Marti Bharath says, “We’ve tried to use grooves that are generally uncommon in the indie scene. The idea was to sound ‘heavier’ in terms of the output too.” The duo’s happy that album tours have become a norm now. Marti adds, “Earlier the music would reach the stores and the popularity would come much later. It’s better that audiences are getting to savour music live now.”
They admit that the album is for a serious music listener. “This is not the kind of a work where two people can talk to each other while the music plays in the background. This is for a crowd who can focus on the intricacies of what we produce (experimental and electronic). It’s our seventh album (that goes with their name Sapta); nothing can go wrong now!” Citing Coldplay’s example, they say, though the group’s evolution with every album has evoked different reactions, the effort to try out something new each time remains significant.
Lyrically, a wide range of inspirations come to them from their personal lives. Examples include Marti’s first brush of the US culture to a failed relationship of his friend. With regard to their progress over these years, Sapta reveals it’s all because of their consistent emphasis on bettering the sound, song structures with feedback from crowds. Tapass Naresh, the drummer and Marti have been together in the band for five years now and the positive vibes they share show their association seems to be getting better with time.
They already have a host of concerts planned in Hyderabad later this year, a zone they want to strengthen beyond Chennai, Kochi, Bangalore and Pune. “The audience for indie-music in places like Chennai and Hyderabad is restricted , one still needs to make the best out of the limitations,” they mention.
Sapta
Origin: 2007
USP: Their live act
Base: Chennai
Genre: Indian electronic music
