In a city which is so well known for its engineering coaching and education, one wouldn’t expect a gang of cool dudes from diverse backgrounds to get together and form a music band. Here is ‘Revelation‘, a band based out of Kota and their musical journey.
It is quite unbelievable that of all things, it will be music that will unite
these guys, one of whom is an Operation and Admin Head at a corporate company,
one who is a stone merchant and the last an entrepreneur. “As a child I was extremely fond
of music, and loved to listen and play instruments as well. But the idea of a
band was born when I met Akshit Soral, in 2008. He was my senior in school and played
the guitar. This could have been a one-off conversation but Akshit invited me
to his home for a jamming session. This is where I also met Ashwin Jain who is
our lead singer and Sumit Edwin who is an entrepreneur and also a guitarist. This
meeting then blossomed into ‘Revelation’,” says Clive Ansley, who is the lead
guitarist. Incidentally, the bollywood flick RockOn! (2008), which the guys had gone to watch inspired
them to take their jamming sessions a step further and form their band ‘Revelation’.
Here is also another surprise, these guys have not trained
professionally, but it is their passion for music that kept them going. As the
years went by, the number of members grew, and today they are eight guys with
two lead singers Bhuvan Malik who is student pursuing M.tech along with Ashwin
Jain, Shashank Pandey, pursuing his B.Tech and Aditiya Chaudhary who just
passed his 12th standard play the Keyboard and the Drums in that
order. They even have a Lyricist, Ajay Nagar, who is Assistant VP at an
engineering coaching institute in Kota.
With such diverse backgrounds and most
definitely skewed schedules of each member, it sure must be a tough task to get
together regularly for practice. “We guys
decide schedules only on the basis of every member’s convenience. So it is a mandatory
practice sessions which no band member must miss. We strongly believe that when
you give out your heart and soul, that’s when its music from the soul.” He says.
Based at the hub of engineering coaching, they
agree there is not much scope for performances, but they have had over 150 performances
since 2008 for various corporate companies’ such as Dainik Bhaskar, Zee News,
Vodafone etc as well as various coaching classes. They have one upcoming event
lined up for the Allen Career Institute.
Apart from the love and passion for music, these guys also bond over
lunches, travelling and to just chill out as well.