These two Chennaites have garnered a massive fan following with their music. SAPTA’s Marti Bharath and Tapass Naresh’s new album Heart Disk is getting rave reviews. They recently did two successful shows in Mumbai and Pondicherry, and are also launching their much-awaited eighth album in Bengaluru.
SAPTA was founded in Paris in 2007 by Marti Bharath with French band members. Marti says, “I came up with the name and the kind of music that we should be making and how the band should evolve. The entire concept and highlight of the band revolves around the number seven.” SAPTA, with every album, tries to ensure that it has seven tracks and it released on the seventh of any month.
Explaining the concept, he adds, “This also gives us enough time to plan and keep up with our deadlines. For the current album too, we set the release date and then worked backwards from production to marketing.” Ever since they started playing together in 2012, Marti has always written tracks that will suit both of them.
He adds, “The music that we put out is not made particularly for Tapass or me. The music that we play live should be able to blend together.” Heart Disk is an ablum unlike any other album that they have come out with. He adds, “Heart Disk can be categorised in retro-pop or dream-pop. It is much lighter when compared to the previous one which was heavier.”
When the previous album released, they had been throwing the tunes. “When the album dropped, we started tweaking the tunes in a more refined way. As a band, doing the same songs can get boring. So we wanted to bring out something that made us evolve. We have tried to find a new sound with this album,” he explains. With album, Marti and Tapaas want to take people who are low to outer space where they can find an escape from day to day life and see life from a bird’s eye perspective. Marti also mentions that the story behind the album will be released as a comic later on.
With their new album just a few days old, SAPTA plans to devote all their energy into Heart Disk. Tapass Naresh adds, “As of now, we are focusing on touring with an album and also a few new songs will be released later on, once we finish this tour.” This alumni of The Chettinad University feels that music has always been a part of his life as he started off quite early.
Having done two successful shows in Mumbai and Pondicherry, Tapass feels that the crowd in both Bengaluru and Mumbai had a similar vibe. He explains, “We have not played in Mumbai for while, a lot of people came out for the show. Bengaluru also had a similar vibe. But in Pondicherry, we had a lot of locals as well as people from Auroville who joined in. The crowd there get our music and it works well.” Tapass also feels the music scene in the city has always been growing and that there is always something happening in Bengaluru, owing to which; the duo loves to perform here.
