Early in July last year, The Indian Music Diaries posted an article encouraging our readers to help crowdfund Nowhere Station’s debut album. The Delhi based progressive rock band had offered early signs of their brilliance as early as 2017 but were yet to materialise their sound into a fully-fledged project. After a year of perfecting the project, “Nowhere Station One” has finally arrived, and how.
The quartet – each an architect or urban planner by trade – had initially planned to release each of the seven tracks from the project with performances in different cities. The pandemic may have thwarted this plan, but it gave these artists, already heavily engaged with spatial visualisation, an opportunity to experiment.
Enlisting the help of a group of visual artists and graphic designers, Nowhere Station elevated the listening experience of their album through…