Live at IFIM, Electronic City Bangalore on 9th October 2012

An refreshing open air show in front of an awesome crowd as the headlining act and judges for Head Strong the battle of bands organised by IFIM, Electronic City, Bangalore.

Interview at Radio One and the release of "Salvation"

For people who missed our interview on Radio One, One Bengaluru One Music aired on 30th of September  2012, here is the recorded version. Also featuring the release of the new single "Salvation".

Get ready for Salvation releasing on 30th September!

Salvation has different meanings for everyone. But for us, Salvation is our next Single out of our forthcoming album. This is another demo track in a series of 4 Demo Singles that we have plans to release out of the album.

Salvation was conceived around 5 months back on a 5 string acoustic guitar by Sudipto (the 6th one became a victim of lethargy) and later everyone from the band turned the song upside down into something unique and beautiful. Sauvik came up with a Prime number pattern on the distortion strikes (Go figure) and Korak used double bass in a very unconventional way for the first time in the album. Ugyal spread his magic over the riffs and the leads. The song went into post production around 2 weeks back and we must say, Sauvik has done a great job with it.

Can't really wait for you guys to give a listen to it. This is the first Dark Project song releasing on the Radio - Radio One, 30th September at 9 PM in Bangalore. We put up a small promo for you guys before it releases in another 5 days. Till then Keep 'em coming!

Dark Project presents Duality

Duality is a Single out of our forthcoming album, due later this year. We released this track online on Soundcloud on 13th September and on Reverbnation on 14th September, now on free streaming on our website as well. The song was well received by most of you and we have got several good words back. It means a lot to us. Duality is also a song where we step ourselves up into another level with our sound. This song was tracked, mixed and engineered by Sauvik at his Studio: Involute Functions. The song is trending on the social sites all because you liked it.
 
The band would like to thank each and everyone of you, who gave us a listen, liked/commented/shared this song with your friends. Keep listening to ROCK, and wait for the next one!

A New Dark Project Sound (A Post by Sudipto)

Everything that sustained over a period of time, had to evolve. It had to evolve in a better way, and not degrade to demotivate. It's about getting to that level of satisfaction with your craft that you feel the need to take it one level higher every time. Today we have played music together for about 6 years. Each day was resounding to let me give up the fight. It's only been a year out of those 6 that i could be with them at the same place, at the same time. It has been a great deal of tackling things - right from Family, to career, to your own living, to choosing a City. Funny how we make choices at every step of our lives, sometime consciously and sometimes without us knowing what we just did. Ours was the former, so it took a great deal of effort.

After 6 years, we are on the verge of releasing our third album. I still see it as our first because this time around, we didn't make music to sustain ourselves, to give ourselves that hope that we should survive, instead, this time we made music to make a point. With the ever increasing number of bands in India and real talented ones, it's not only important to live upto the standards but also to not produce something that will be a let down to the scene. We did some real evaluations before taking up the road to write this record. It had to follow a process that we did not follow so far. It had to be given the share of it's own time so that it gets settled in our  heads too. The recording process had to be something, we were very particular about. We didn't want to make our songs sound like our previous ones, atleast from production quality. Also, in the process, we decided to have 3 sets of recording - Composition, Demo and Production quality. Naturally the process took over 6 months now and we have hit the Demo stage finally. The idea is to get better with every iteration but at the same time, at each level - we want to give our best effort. 

We just finished tracking Duality yesterday. When Ugyal played the riff around a year back, i found it to be a song that will change the landscape of our sound. We didn't want to write another complicated record this time, we just wanted to stay simple and dwell around it to make it sound tighter. Duality talks about the story of schizophrenia. Not that it's not a well worked out subject already, but we wrote the words around a human beings realization to the idea and a constant will to not show it to his lover - just for a better life. 

I live on dreams, i live with hope. Despite all the sins, i believe Karma will define everything eventually. 6 years and finally, i have a feeling that we may have hit the sound, we wanted to have all these years. Not been a easy ride - hope you'd like it too. I leave you with a few lines from Duality:

"The day you will find, a mirror that hides through the broken walls, inside my pretty life"
"Elevates my days of suffering"
"For the love i hate to share with you"
"With the silence persistent, underneath my face.."

Adios for now!
DJ

Dark Project on Eclectic Vibes

If you hail from any of the states from the North East. You should grab a copy of Eclectic Vibes NOW for two reasons:

1. It has a cover page story about Steven Wilson.
2. It features Dark Project too.

Check us out and let us know what you think about the story.

Dark Project Live at Herbs & Spice on 18th August (Note date changed)

Dark Project will go Live at Herbs & Spice, Indiranagar, Bangalore on 18th of August 2012. With a brand new album coming up later this year, this show will commence the inclusion of some of the forthcoming music along with the other DP originals plus some popular covers with an acoustic twist.

If you are in the City, you cannot afford to miss this one.