Sifar

Sifar was formed in 2008, when Amit Yadav recorded his version of one of Anshul Bansal’s songs. Until this point, they had tried finding the right band/ line up for their songs without any success. Anshul loved the music done by Amit and they decided to upload the song along with one of Amit’s songs on the internet. They soon started gathering an audience online. Encouraged by the response, Amit decided to pursue music production professionally and enrolled in a music production course.

After completion of the course, Amit started producing songs again in late 2009. By the end of 2010, both Amit and Anshul, put together, had written total 10 new songs which Amit had arranged, performed and produced at his home studio. They continued publishing the songs online on their website on a regular basis. Eight of these songs were also published in the popular computer technology magazine Digit’s Annual Issue in December 2010.
Towards the end of 2010, Sifar started performing live as well. The live lineup included Deepak Singh on Drums, Yapang Lemtur on Bass, and Nikhil Auluck on Guitars in addition to Amit on Vocals, and Guitars. By the starting of 2011, they had already performed at some significant venues in India like IIT Roorkee, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Patna, ISB Hyderabad, and had also performed on Delhi’s popular radio stations HIT 95 FM and Radio City 91.1 FM

At the start of 2011, they decided to take their production to the next level and record the songs at a professional studio. While they were scouting for the right studio, Delhi based Beatfactory Music (run by Gaurav Dayal) offered them a recording and artist management contract. As with previously home recorded demos, Amit continued to perform and record almost everything himself except Drums, which were now performed by Deepak. The band just digitally released their 3 song EP on 18th June’11 and plan to release the full length album sometime later this year.