Dhvani - Part 2

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Finally the day came, we did a pretty decent job and people were happy. The biggest achievement was that we were happy with our performance. We kept meeting each other regularly and couple of shows happened in the by lanes of Dombivili and Thane.

|| Dhvani || was born..

A Bass player known to Saurabh (the learned guitarist) joined the band; dandiyas, school annual days and send off days were then the arena for us to showcase our potential. A road side tea stall (Pramod Chaiwaala) was our head office where we used to sit and discuss about shows, budget, playlist etc.

We started upgrading our instruments slowly and steadily, Vikram purchased a good Roland keyboard, Saurabh got a new guitar processor and I purchased a Chancellor Drum kit.

After each and every show, we felt confident and the bond grew. One day, Vikram called me up and told about an event called Channel [V] Launch pad. It was a band talent hunt competition organized by Channel [V]. We got the band enrolled and started preparing for the concert.

We were told to perform an original composition and a cover for the first round. While a cover song was not an issue but original composition was a leap of faith. We were at Saurabh’s house madly scratching our heads and trying to recollect our Hindi lessons. The tune and lyrics were written simultaneously which mainly revolving around Naresh’s (our band’s learned singer) voice quality and singing style.

Here are 4 lines of our first compositon :-

तेरे बिन, लागे ना

मोरा जिया मैं क्या करू हाय
सजनी सजनी...

Finally the song was completed, groove and chords were finalized. Naresh and Ninad (the Bassist…you should actually see him to believe that he plays the bass guitar which would be almost half of his height) joined us later. They heard the composition and liked it.

Naresh sang the song and we loved it, it was a proud moment for us to see our first song taking birth. The song was named as SILK.

Here is are 2 pic of ours at Channel [V] launch pad and the one below is a short video of SILK from one of our concerts :-

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