The result is a more vibrant but softer EP that captures a shift to the sensitive side — lyrically and stylistically. “The four tracks were personal to me because the sound came out via their core idea. The production came together organically,” Bhatia admits.

Feeling is a key part of his creation process. The musician recalled how it was the haunting visual of a dingy blue curtain at his friend’s apartment that gave birth to his artistic name. “I realised that the name was representative of the melancholic feeling present in the track as well,” Bhatia observes. Naturally, he stuck to it with the release of his first EP, Drones, in 2015.

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S.T.R.I.P.E.S is a four-track project with the overarching theme of love uniting it. Right into you and Is it you that I want, pick up slowly, but the brass section in All for you is the pick-up the EP needs. Sunkissed captures a couple’s journey with its distinct atmospheric sound. The composer said that the project’s sound is also influenced by the orchestral jazz that he had been listening to.

“My style has grown more organic and fluid, unlike before,” Bhatia says, adding that he has been working with a live band, a brass and rhythm player, as part of his process. A collaboration with Tarana Marwaha aka Komorebi is on the cards, and another set of singles is scheduled to release in the coming year. “My focus is to complete the music I have created and release them soon,” Bhatia concludes.

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