Camirocha band. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
In the Indian independent music scenario, instrumental rock albums are so rare that when such albums come at once, there are stories of persistence and self-doubt behind it. Camirocha, who has just released his first album Small fantasies of a two -winged dreamThere is also such a story to share an instrument album of progressive rock with a ting of pop punk. Banker Arjun J. Pathresh and Sound designer Nitin began working on an album near a decade ago. The two were part of the independent rock music scene active in Kerala in the mid -2000s, with a guitarist for a band such as Arjun Solburn, while Nitin is a former basist of metal band chaos. When they met together in Kochi in 2016, they hit the idea of working on an album. “We both have the same music taste. One of the ideas had to mix modern progressive rocks with pop-pinks and similar styles of the 2000s, all of which created a feeling of apathy in us. We asked these songs not to consider any consultation. The studio helped us at a time when we had a lot about recording songs. Albums do not have a lot. Rarely progress like a fluid lousy dreams with repeated rifs. As a free flowing, they also seem to have a reaction of musicians in their lives, although both listeners like to leave the task of interpretation. One of the strength of instrumental music is that it is open to interpretation in different countries and cultures in many different ways, “Arjuna says. In fact, the band’s name is also the result of such an interpretation. It was believed that the Kipsigis tribe in Kenya used to chant the name of the famous country’s music composer Gimi Rogers. The ‘Camirocha’ singing is now on YouTube. Like that story, the “two-hearted dream” can provoke innumerable interpretations and reactions, unlike each, unlike the title, their music is not going to be “short-term imagination”.
Published – August 10, 2025 08:44 pm IST