MUMBAI: Mumbai based Kush Upadhyay Group is a solo project by Kush Upadhyay. He started off his journey into music at a tender age of 11 when he discovered his knack for blues. The band is a Progressive Blues/Rock instrumental project. So far the band has two albums to its credit namely Songs In The Key Of EP and Perspective.

The band recently released its third album Impulsive Decision on 15 September. The album was featured in Top 20 album in iTunes India.

Speaking about the album Kush said, “It’s a free progressive/Blues/Rock album recorded at Cotton Press Studio. As we started off in June we had an idea of making five tracks but later we made few more numbers in August which was mixed and mastered by Warren Mendonsa of Blackstratblues.”

He also mentioned, “The song is about how the band made the album. It has eight tracks written and composed by me. The album was made by four piece Band which includes Gino Banks on the drum, Anurag Naidu on Keys, Sheldon D’Silva on Bass and I on Guitar.”

The band is currently touring different cities in the country. The tour started with a gig in Delhi on 22 September. The band will be travelling to Bangalore and do a show at Blue Frog on 13 October. On 18 October Kush and the team will do a gig at Khar AntiSocial.

The opening act at AntiSocial will be done by Experimental/RnB/Soul SmallTalk band. Their stylistic voice is inspired by the likes of Vanilla, D'Angelo, Hiatus Kaiyote, Kendrick Lamar, Erykah Badu and many others.

Smalltalk have also won the highly acclaimed Bandcubator competition at High Spirits Café, Pune, which has earned them the bragging rights of a four-city tour with Mixtape, an EP recording deal at Mumbai’s Cotton Press Studio and a music video slot on 9XO.

The album Impulsive Decision is available on digital platforms like OKListen, Saavn, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Google Play, Amazon, and Gaana.           

Album Tracklist:

The Aftermath

24/02

 Song For Mike

The Meaning Of Life

Impulsive Decisions

The Older We Get

Harmless But Restless

Not From This World

Check the Title songs here: