SDCXTRA RADIO

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Thermal And A Quarter

Musik Radio Promotions
presents
Thermal And A Quarter





Genre
Rock - Adult Contemporary - and a little Rockabilly groove

Location
India

Label
Indie

Website
thermalandaquarter.wixsite.com/newtaaqsite

Songwriter/Publisher
Thermal and a Quarter / BMI



“Thermal And a Quarter is on the vanguard of the Indian Rock Scene” – NPR (All Things Considered), USA

Thermal And A Quarter (TAAQ) is an English Rock Band from Bangalore, India.

We’ve been around the block. Released eight studio albums. Toured across New York, Seattle, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Bonn, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kathmandu and more. Opened for marquee names including Guns N’ Roses, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull and Slash. Been on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine. Won national / international awards. All great, but not what makes us who and what we are.

When we began writing music 24 years ago, Bangalore was a sleepy pensioner’s paradise with a decided colonial hangover. We grew up convent-educated, thinking in English, and grappling with an emerging ‘modern urban Indian’ identity. Bangalore is now the upstart tech-capital of India, one of the back-offices of the world, and exploding with innovation, nouveau riche, traffic and urban sprawl.

You’ll find all of that in our music. It’s overtly ‘Western’ – guitar, bass, drums, English lyrics (no Bollywood, sitars or tablas here) – but nested in that shell is a complex, multi-layered and nuanced experience: where Emily Dickinson meets Tagore, Phish meets The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Steely Dan goes out for a curry.

We sometimes call ourselves the ‘bastards of the world’. It’s quite an interesting space to be in. Rooted, yet un-belonging, everywhere and nowhere.

Like the name, it all looks a bit complicated, so let’s make it simple: listen to the music.

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