Celebrated Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez said it best by noting that life is defined not by its experiences, but by how you remember them. For artistes, nostalgia can be a powerful stimulant to the creative process. It takes good artistes to rise and move beyond it. Our first sampling of Easy Wanderlings’ music begins with the tinge of sweet nostalgia before discovering the band’s experimental repertoire.

Lead guitarist and songwriter Sanyanth Naroth tells us, “We listen to all kinds of music. When we jam, we tend to rub off on each other. In the early years, we had an easy listening kind of sound. Now, we are far more experimental.” The experiment has proved successful to say the least. The collective was awarded the Best Band at the Indian Music Diaries award in 2020. They have been recognised as a rising artiste by Spotify’s Radar and Apple’s UP Next program in 2021. This weekend, they arrive in Mumbai to perform on the NCPA stage alongside Bombay Brass.