Cheeky, young and full of life The Paradigm Shift is quite the handful. From placing second at Armageddon, IIM to “noodling around”, the band has an odd charm that intrigues.
Hoping to go on tour someday with the parallel thought of perhaps getting a manager, the band tells us like it is.
Eight Octaves: How did the band form?
TPS: The band formed back in October 2011.
Eight Octaves: When did all of you come together?
TPS: This is a very detailed question to which we don’t have a detailed answer 😛
Eight Octaves: Why form a band?
TPS: Well music was instilled in all of us since we were kids and almost all of the band members come from musical families. The band was formed to give our music some sense of direction and to pool our emotions into the music instead of just noodling around.
Eight Octaves: What made you choose the genre you did?
TPS: We play what the compositions require not keeping track to stick within any genre. But our influences are drawn from Karnivool, Porcupine Tree, Tesseract, Breaking Benjamin , Periphery, Incubus, etc; lot of post hardcore elements mashed up against heavy alternative elements .
Eight Octaves: Who are your idols?
TPS Idols:
Joydeep T Banerjee (Bassist) – Flee , Jon Stockman (Karnivool)
Ayan Debnath(guitars) – Joe Satriani , John Petrucci , Misha Mansoor , Steve Vai , Mike Einziger
Sujan Sengupta (guitars) – Mark Tremonti , Acle Kahney ,Don Ross, John Frusciante,Tom Morello, Steven Wilson , Marty Friedman.
Durbar De (vocals) – Switchfoot, Incubus, Creed, Audioslave, A.R Rahman (doesn’t idiolise any vocalist in particular)
Ankit Malik (drums) – Danny Carey. Gavin Harrison. Chris Adler. Chad Smith. Matt Halpern.
Eight Octaves: What do you guys do in your spare time?
TPS is
Ayan (Guitars) – Play lot of sports: majorly football; I am a big movie buff.
Ankit (Drums)– Recording, reading, smoking pot, talking utter nonsense, sampling alcohol.
Sujan (Guitars) – Recording, reading, football, making grooves, playing football.
Joy (Bass)- Browsing YouTube , listening to new music on sound-cloud , reverbnation, etc.
Durby (Vocals) – Watching foreign language movies followed by sleeping.
Eight Octaves: Where does The Paradigm Shift see itself in 5 years?
TPS: Well firstly, 5 years is a long time but we would definitely have enough material for 4 albums by then and probably go on tour if our music reaches the right people; those being people who like and appreciate the music that we’re playing. We also hope to have better gear and equipment, a sound technician, a manager perhaps. And most importantly, we hope to have regular gigs as well: to feed ourselves 😛
