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Exclusive Premiere: Instrumental Artist Home Brewed Universe Goes Turbo on ‘Gravity Bomb’

The post-metal and prog-leaning track is taken from Hyderabad-based composer Arka Sengupta’s upcoming album ‘Tranquil Taboo Time’

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While looking up the occurrence of lucid dreaming, Hyderabad-based composer and guitarist Arka Sengupta aka Home Brewed Universe came across a phenomenon that apparently describes 3 am.  It led to the creation of his upcoming concept album Tranquil Taboo Time, which takes its name from the concept he discovered.

Sengupta says, “There are many more aspects of 3 am that affect the human mind. So, I thought of creating an album that would try to highlight these aspects through sounds.” The third single off the forthcoming album (which releases on June 11th) “Gravity Bomb” hones in on the beginning of a lucid dream which is beset with the world’s “destruction and suffering.” The final track recorded for Tranquil Taboo Time, “Gravity Bomb” moves from slithering guitar leads to explosive riffage that aims for bedlam.   

Although known to create lightheaded and proggy music with Home Brewed Universe and his other project, Mixtaped Monk, Sengupta goes much heavier on this DIY record. “This lockdown and the entire situation in India has definitely given rise to some angst in me. There’s chaos and suffering everywhere and it doesn’t seem to stop. The anxiety and paranoia of uncertainty during these times that we live in gave me the initial spark to take on a different sound this time around,” the musician says.

With both Mixtaped Monk and Home Brewed Universe, Sengupta has kept them studio projects but it was as recently as May 21st when the artist took on an audiovisual livestream performance, for Romania’s StarTship International Electronic Music Festival. He adds, “Now that Bandcamp has started live streaming, I plan to host some audiovisual sessions with my music on the platform in the upcoming months.”

Listen to “Gravity Bomb” below. Pre-order the album here.

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