The Yellow Diary is a band that has made a name for itself in the indie music scene in less than half a decade. The Mumbai-based alternative rock outfit has released six songs in two EPs, in addition to performing hundreds of live shows across the country. They are now signed with Sony Music India.

Band Members:
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Himonshu Parikh (music production, keyboard, backing vocals)
Rajan Batra (vocals, songwriting)
Vaibhav Pani (guitar)
Sahil Shah (drums)
Stuart DaCosta (bass)
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Band Name:
To begin with, Himonshu told the editor of Guardian Live about the story behind the band’s name. “Essentially, all our songs are about the things that have happened to us or around us. These are experiences that one would write about in their personal diary. So all the songs are like different pages of a diary where you put in material every day. That explains the diary part of the name,” he said.

And the word yellow also comes from an interesting place. According to Himonshu, yellow is a mysterious color that usually denotes happiness and brightness. But it also has a very dark side to it, suggesting cynicism of a kind. “So just like the color yellow, and every page in the diary, incorporates a range of emotions, every song of ours has a different emotion. That’s why the band is called The Yellow Diary,” he said.

Details about the albums:
After signing with Sony Music in 2017, the band released its first EP, rightly named Marz. It had three songs, “Afzai”, “Kashmir” and the re-released version of “Marz”, the song that had brought them together in the first place. Today, “Marz” has over six million views on YouTube, which is quite an accomplishment for a fairly new band.

The Yellow Diary’s second EP, called Izafa (which means advancement in Urdu), released last December. The band thinks it represents the next step in their musical journey. It consists of three songs—“Dheere Se”; “Buniyaad”; and a remake of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s “Tera Jeya Hor Disda”.

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