I took it back again, and incorporated that in the pieces. and from those jam sessions something else came out. Again we had another seating, another rehearsal, exchanged ideas, played a little. By then I had rearranged the tunes and changed the structure of the songs. I explained it to them so that they can work on it at home and expand on it a little bit. Once it was sounding close to what I was thinking of initially as a piece of music, I took it to Arinjoy, the other guitar player, and to Akash, the bass player. For months I kind of scratched it out and then rewrote it and restructured it, reharmonised it, changed the chords here and there, changed the melody or cancelled a part, or incorporated a new part, this carried on for many months. Once the concepts were clear and solidified, I tried to complete it as a form. You write it and then put it to the instrument to see how it sounds. The advantage of trying to write without the instrument is that you play outside your comfort zone.

sometimes with the instrument and sometimes without the instrument. Sometimes I would sit with the idea and work on it. I was thinking of these musical ideas for the last three years almost. How did you go about the recording process? Strangely, we are living here and destroying it. It is like a symbolical indication to us that I am angry and disappointed at the fact that humans have almost killed the planet.

Basically, to say how nature is angry at the way humans have made this planet a sick one. The flower itself is a representation of nature, it is beautiful but the ‘red’ symbolises “rage”. Red Plant or Rojo Planta is a sweet red flower… but here I am trying to portray the red colour as “anger”. You write the piece according to that sentiment. When you think of a piece of music or sentiment, you know from experience whether it’ll be an acoustic piece or not. I play the acoustic guitar as much as I play electric. You have to recognise it, understand it and you have to feel it. They respond in a certain way and the beauty comes out in a different way.

I love the purity of the sound, it’s got its own nuances and language… with this instrument you are what you are…there’s nothing in between… I have a very deep relationship with the acoustic guitar… in fact, my first album Ambiance de Danse had the acoustic guitar, and the second album Pietra Dura was only acoustic… I love playing both acoustic and electric guitar, each one has its own beauty, language, sentiment, emotion.

Come a little closer acoustic