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The Mix

On the power ballad
“Straight Lines” which was
an old E for Elephant track
co-written with vocalist-gui-
tarist Zubin Narielwala, Lunia
pours his heart out singing
about life’s expectations for
oneself. “It’s about the decision
of not pursuing music full
time — at the time I got a job
in finance and I was pissed off
with myself about this.” He
adds, “Everyone thinks stupid
things like, ‘I’m going to be a
millionaire at 25 or be married
by 30 with babies’ and that
doesn’t happen, so the song
kind of questions why that
may be the case, even though
you may be doing everything
to achieve what you set out to
do.” The record closes with the
emotional breakup song “6:8”
which includes interesting
orchestral arrangements and a
power-driven guitar solo.
Overall Lunia tells us
that In a Boy’s Dream is about
growing up and everything
that may come with doing so.
He says, “Keep plugging away
at your dreams even though
things may not be going the
way you’d necessarily want.
It’s about my thoughts to get
myself to persevere and ‘not
give up’ and hopefully inspire
Mihir Lunia Sings About other people.”
The vocalist-guitarist
Resilience on Debut EP ‘In a tracked the EP at Mumbai’s
24Fret Productions Studio and
it includes bass parts by musi-
Boy’s Dream’ cian Jivesh D’Souza. The record
was produced and engineered
by Mumbai-based Rahul Pop-
The four-track record houses catchy rock tunes and a melancholic ditty awala. “Rahul was instrumental
in putting this together. He is
the only other producer I found
t the start of this out with his debut four-track EP just a little effort to make the few of my best buds at the time who was obsessed with Alter
decade, Mumbai titled In a Boy’s Dream. music ‘listenable’ to get the song and this song kind of came out Bridge and Myles Kennedy so
Avocalist-guitarist Mihir Lunia, who cites the likes of to focus on melodies, which is on an acoustic guitar on the that’s how we started off.”
Lunia was fronting rock outfit rock outfits Guns N’ Roses, Aer- what I’ve tried to do.” beach on that holiday.” Lunia In the pipeline is a music
E for Elephant and went on to osmith, Pink Floyd and Deep In a Boy’s Dream kicks also gives a nod to his old band video for “I (Don’t) Want To
perform a bunch of gigs in the Purple as influences, says, off with the shiny “Road to when he sings “I never seem Talk About It” and also to hit
city as well as release a pop-rock “There was a certain rawness Unawatuna” which is Lunia’s to find the end/ I’m rolling the stage more often. Lunia
single called “Girl” in 2015. to the music that immedi- take on having to study for the round with elephants.” The EP says, “The entire idea behind the
However, since then, the group ately pulled me in.” Those Graduate Management Admis- moves to the cheerful “I (Don’t) record was to start playing live
called it quits due to schedules sounds definitely crept into the sion Test (GMAT) and attain a Want To Talk About It” that again and this time with more
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST no band anymore, Lunia says, “I he began putting together this tration (MBA). He says, “These “just another and fairly extreme already readying his next release
Master of Business Adminis-
original music.” The musician is
according to the musician is
and other commitments. With
musician’s new record which
figured it would be logistically
years were some of the hardest
past May. He says, “A constant
which is going to be a folk single
stance on how to deal with a
followed by a full-length album.
complaint I have had with rock
problem and break out of it in a
of my life. I took a trip to Sri
easier to get things going as a
solo act.” The musician is now
positive way.”
music coming out of India is
Lanka and went diving with a
DAVID BRITTO
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