Day 3 in Bombay

Yesterday was THE most tiring day during the entire process of making this record. Shantanu had suggested the day before that we should re-do the vocals for one song "hold me" ... So I reached the studio by 11, did the vocals in less than an hour ( Cheers to Eric Arcenaux's vocal warm up excercises ). Andrew had to come in to track piano for one more song, which he did and played to perfection. After that it was ALL me .... I technically tracked 14 songs, 1 vocal, 4 piano and 9 acoustic guitar. By the end of it , I was soooooo tired, it was unbelievable. Josh had reached the studio by 8 or so, was chilling. We gor done by 12 mid night. We were all very hungry so we found a place an had a less than decent burger an then sid and Josh headed to the hotel I booked or them and I headed to my aunt's place.

Next morning , I get woken up by both of them . They told me that Josh had a bad panic attack and couldn't breathe. Very scary .... He didn't seem to get better. So I brought him to the hospital. We won't be able to track drums today as he is not well at all. Since the album has 2 songs without drums, we'll go ahead and start mixing them and Josh can track the drums tomorrow when he's better ..... I'm at the hospital right now , waiting for him to come out. Hope he feels better.

Cheers

Rohan

Phase 2 of the record

I'm in Bombay now with one of my co-producers (Sidhant Mathur). We originally set out to mix the album and re-record piano parts for all the songs on a grand piano and re-work and record string arrangements which will be composed and arranged by an awesome producer named Andrew T. Mackay. But as we spent some time in the studio and started to record piano ... We heard the difference in the sound quality. This actually made us extremely satisfied as well as disappointed, because the drum sound didn't seem all that hot after hearing what it could have sounded like .... So we took a call and decided to re-record drums for all the songs as well and also re-record rhythm acoustic guitars sitting in the HUGE hall with top class mics. I know that means pushing the budget , but at the end of the day, it is going to be worth it. I'm so happy about the direction of this album ... It's really headed in the right direction and is gonna end up sounding awesome. It's gonna be something I'm going to be proud of my whole life. In one session at Yash Raj Studio , Andrew changed the face of this album. I'm loving the experience in Bombay so far. Can't wait for the mixing to start.

Hope you guys will like the album when it's out

Cheers

Rohan