Who says a man of science cannot excel in the arts sphereIJ After all, even Albert Einstein played the violin rather well. That seems to be the spirit that has inspired Abhishek Tiwari, a 27-year-old software engineer, who works for a multinational corporation in Maharashtra and says that he is a "musician" at heart.
On Saturday the youth makes his debut as a singer in the non-commercial cosmo music band ABong's maiden album 'Bon Voyage' whose release, comes in the wake of 'Poila Baisakh' (Bangla New Year) celebrations in Pune. "The band, an offspring of the sole passion for creating music, was formed by Arindam, Souradip and Soumendu on October 16, 2011.
The trio went for a stage performance again in October 2013. We play original compositions - primarily Bangla and Hindi numbers besides Bollywood Rock and contemporary English songs," Tiwari said.
With passage of time, ABong's ranks swelled with Abhishek, Sourodip and Indrani as vocalists, Vikrant as bass guitarist, Arindam as lead guitarist, Utsav as rythm guitarist, Akash as drummerand Rakesh as sound engineer. The members take time out of their packed work schedules to meet every week for jamming so that the music and innovation carry on. ABong has more than 20 compositions to its credit including Bangla and Hindi. In the past three years, the band staged in excess of ten performances in Pune.
"My father Krishna Tiwari - who is a non-journalist working at the Bhopal Bureau of a national news agency is a percussionist and I seem to have inherited his charisma. Of course, I also received lessons in Hindustani classical music," says Abhishek. When it comes to Hindi songs, he is the man of choice for the band but he renders Bangla numbers too. Tiwari's song 'Jane kyun ye dil' of their maiden music album is in rock genre and is available on social networking sites.