Delhi's Best-Kept secret: Exploring PCRC's Early Albums
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For a band that’s existed since 2009, isn’t it strange that their earliest available work came out in 2018? Weren’t those Delhi boys up to something all those years?
In 2008, Suryakant Sawhney had a spiritual experience in San Francisco that inspired him to pursue a career in music. In early 2010, family and financial commitments forced Sawhney back to Gurgaon.
Now more driven than ever towards music, with an album written and in his pocket, Sawhney spent the rest of 2010 learning music production and recording.
Eventually, his musical project evolved into a quintet with the induction of local musicians Karan Singh—ex-metal band Lycanthropia, Rohan Kulshreshtha, and Anindya Shankar—in their lineup.
Fully recorded by the New Year’s Eve of 2010, the mastering was completed just a day later.
“Sinema” was released on 1st January 2011 to a house party in Delhi, off the band’s website and Bandcamp. The initial price for downloading this album was $2000, later brought down $10.
A mix of gypsy jazz, cabaret and pop, with Suryakant’s crooning vocals, this album introduced the world to PCRC’s unique sound.
Exactly a year later, on 12th January 2012, the band released ‘Wall of Want’ - an album of raw demos and other experimental recordings.
Anindya Shankar left the band and was replaced as guitarist by Kartik Sundareshan Pillai, who turned out to be a friend-of-a-friend and had mixed their music during the Sinema album launch unknowingly.
Five years after their debut album, the band released its spiritual successor, Climax, in 2015. This was when the band dug deeper into their signature sound.
Seven years into the band’s career, Kulshreshtha parted ways. He was replaced by two young new entrants to the band, Rohit Gupta and Dhruv Bhola. “Portrait of a Time: 2010 - 2016” was released on March 1, 2018; followed by the iconic Bismillah in 2019.
In the midst of the first wave of the pandemic, the band released ‘Happy Holidays’ - a compilation of songs they “wrote and rejected a long time ago”. It remains a bandcamp exclusive.
We’ll be playing music from these albums at the PCRC Listening Experience this Saturday at Dadar SOCIAL from 4 to 6 PM.
Also shop our collection of the Peter Cat Recording Co. discography here
In 2008, Suryakant Sawhney had a spiritual experience in San Francisco that inspired him to pursue a career in music. In early 2010, family and financial commitments forced Sawhney back to Gurgaon.
Now more driven than ever towards music, with an album written and in his pocket, Sawhney spent the rest of 2010 learning music production and recording.
Eventually, his musical project evolved into a quintet with the induction of local musicians Karan Singh—ex-metal band Lycanthropia, Rohan Kulshreshtha, and Anindya Shankar—in their lineup.
Fully recorded by the New Year’s Eve of 2010, the mastering was completed just a day later.
“Sinema” was released on 1st January 2011 to a house party in Delhi, off the band’s website and Bandcamp. The initial price for downloading this album was $2000, later brought down $10.
A mix of gypsy jazz, cabaret and pop, with Suryakant’s crooning vocals, this album introduced the world to PCRC’s unique sound.
Exactly a year later, on 12th January 2012, the band released ‘Wall of Want’ - an album of raw demos and other experimental recordings.
Anindya Shankar left the band and was replaced as guitarist by Kartik Sundareshan Pillai, who turned out to be a friend-of-a-friend and had mixed their music during the Sinema album launch unknowingly.
Five years after their debut album, the band released its spiritual successor, Climax, in 2015. This was when the band dug deeper into their signature sound.
Seven years into the band’s career, Kulshreshtha parted ways. He was replaced by two young new entrants to the band, Rohit Gupta and Dhruv Bhola. “Portrait of a Time: 2010 - 2016” was released on March 1, 2018; followed by the iconic Bismillah in 2019.
In the midst of the first wave of the pandemic, the band released ‘Happy Holidays’ - a compilation of songs they “wrote and rejected a long time ago”. It remains a bandcamp exclusive.
We’ll be playing music from these albums at the PCRC Listening Experience this Saturday at Dadar SOCIAL from 4 to 6 PM.
Also shop our collection of the Peter Cat Recording Co. discography here
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