Bands of Adobe India - Wishing Well and Sattv during Winter Carnival 2012 @ Steller Gymkhana, Greater Noida

Before everyone forget about amazing Winter Carnival by Adobe India, I thought of sharing another Photo Journey with two inhouse bands of Adobe - Wishing Well & Sattav (सत्त्व). Although I have least details about these two bands but the performances were brilliant and hope that photographs below would be able to show you the passion of these folks...

Neeraj Kakoty, a prerelease program associate, sets the pace with his power drumming. His style of immaculate drumming is the back bone of all that Level 8 used to do. A drummer by the age of 13, he grew up listening to Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden et all and idolizes the drumming gods like Neil Peart, Dave Weckl, Danny
Carey (Tool) and Steve Gadd. After watching his idols perform live and playing for a band that opened for the 'Gypsy Kings' a few years back in Canada, he has always dreamt of having his own band. Besides the passion for the drums, he is a storehouse of good humor and wackiest jokes.

Ankur Prakash on Keyborad, although he also plays guitar. In fact, he is a popular Guitar Instructor and many of the folks in Adobe have been taught by him.

Amit Khulbe on right - Amit 'The Blues' Khulbe went for a rock concert during his college days, more out of curiosity than interest. As Amit recalls, his immediate reaction was to get hold of a guitar and start strumming. Ever since, there’s no looking back for him. With major in influence from bands like Scorpions, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest etc., Amit with his free owing guitar techniques and improvisation de nes the sound of the band. His love for dishing out great leads and earthy solos is transcended only by his love for free jamming sessions. (These details are picked from one of the PDF talking about their band in initial days :) )

Shannon Victor Peter on Stage @ Steller Gymkhana, Greater Noida !

During the evening two in-house bands performed before Euphoria and it was great beginning of this event. Wishing Well is one of the Adobe's in-house rock bands, which was formed in 2005. Wishing Well is formed of -

Shannon Victor Peter as Vocalist
Amit Khulbe as Lead Guitarist
Bhavneet Singh Ahuja on Rhythm Guitar
Neeraj Kakoty on Drums
Gaurish Kshirsagar on Bass Guitar
Ankur Prakash on Keyboard

Wishing Well plays rock music and there is some news that they will soon come up with self compositions too :)

Sattva is the second band which is newly formed Hindi Fusion Band with 7 members of Adobe India. सत्त्व was formed 3 months ago and these folks have been practicing stuffs since then. सत्त्व is still in early stage of writing songs, so they mostly do covers of movie or band songs. Sattva consists of - 

Mili Sharma - Vocalist
Swagat Konchada - Vocalist
Bhavneet Singh Ahuja - Guitar
Anuj Batta - Flute & Keyboard
Neeraj Kakoty - Drums
Gaurish Kshirsagar - Bass Guitar
Ankur Prakash - Guitar