Popular rock band Indian Ocean, the first music band in India to have a documentary made on them, now has a coffee table book dedicated to them.
Titled "Indian Ocean," the book compiles rare images describing the 23-year-old journey of the band from the days when they used to sing together at a friend's empty house in Karol Bagh to their international tours.
Former band members, Susmit Sen and his close friend Asheem Chakravarty came together in 1990 to experiment with Indian rhythms and melodies at a time when the trend among the most young independent musicians was to do covers of known international acts.
The band's lead guitarist, Rahul Ram joined within a year, and his fondness for vocals further increased the fan following of Indian Ocean.
The trio was later joined by Amit Kilam, a multi- instrumentalist in 1994 and the band emerged as pioneers of rock fusion genre with successful albums like "Desert Rain", "Kandisa" and "Jhini".
New strings buzzed in the Indian Ocean post 2010, when Asheem died of a cardiac arrest in 2009 and later Susmit decided to part ways with the band for his solo albums this year.
Published by Parragon Publishers, the book compiled by Vineet Sharma was released at an Oxford store here recently.
"I was little sceptical about the book when Vineet approached us with the idea. I wasn't sure if each of us would get equal representation in the book," Amit told PTI in an interview.
