- mayukh chatterji
- Apr 15
- 2 min read
Tremendously proud and excited to announce the release of my first instrumental album: 5TO9.
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Releasing 18th April, Good Friday, my 36th Birthday- A collage of moods. A soundtrack for the strange, the still, the shifting.
Having worked in a corporate 9to5 since 2012, in the time I get after that from 5to9, I have spent a lot of it venting creatively by myself entangled in cables, guitars, DAWs and loopers, recording software, headphones; writing, designing, reflecting, retrospecting and introspecting.
As musicians, we are always recording idea snippets of melodies and chord progressions in our phones and laptops and most of them eventually get lost in an abyss of content.
I decided to revisit many such ideas-even ones from over a decade ago- and turn them into full blown tracks. The result?
An entire album with 20 tracks on it rooted in ideas across multiple genres- acoustic, pop, rock, ambient and even EDM.
From jazz-laced grooves to cinematic swells, ambient textures to bold beats — this instrumental album is a soundscape for your thoughts, your drive, your late-night walks, your quiet chaos.
Every track tells a story without speaking a word.
Let it soundtrack your world.
Each of these 20 songs have a soundscape that mirrors its name. For e.g. a song called "Live,Laugh,Endure,Rest" has parts to it that reflect these moods.
"I've Always Had to Love You from a Distance" mirrors the associated moods-yearning, inner turmoil, acceptance.
Or how "Traditional Dread of Mondays" is fiesty and grungy much like a Monday mood.
Considering I have no formal training in anything related to music coupled with normal work schedules, cooking, laundry, other life activities and priorities, it took an insane amount of work (and even back pain from sitting and recording for hours), a massive learning curve spanning over a year to think of concepts, record hundreds of layers for the tracks, produce multiple iterations of each song, listen to them over and over and over again till I couldn't anymore, put them all together, design album artwork and formally submit them for release.
With the submission, it does feel like something massive has finally cleared out from my life (in a good way) leaving a cleaner, calmer space. Fledgling effervescent ideas have been made tangible and the process of creating art from scratch, ever so essential to my existence, continued and continues to manifest.
To me, 5TO9 embodies love, hate, confusion, chaos, peace, creation, journey, patience, perseverance, hard work, unwavering motivation, inspiration, the unknown, life, death, travel, art, my life stories and experiences, my emotions and every color in the spectrum that exists.
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