Interview with Devesh Dayal of Skyharbor
I haven't seen you in a very long time. What's your travels been like? What have your travels been like? And have you been making music in that downtime? Hi
Devesh Dayal
@deveshtation · 0:28
Yoyo, good to be on here. Thank you, Taylor, for having me. And that amazing introduction. You got me blushing. I'm doing super well. Travel has been fun and cool and productive. Luckily, I've been able to just work on productions remotely with all these amazing tools that we have for music production to just work anywhere. And, yeah, it's going well
Devesh Dayal
@deveshtation · 2:00
And he was familiar with my work in my other projects and was super down. So long story short, we played really cool show, opening for Lamb of God in Bangalore, India. And that was my first show with the band. And then from there, it was just such a fun experience. The week we spent rehearsing and then the show itself
They were in that top three hierarchy. And so opening for them in India is a huge deal. And now you mentioned this. You touched on it a little bit. But one of the interesting things about Sky Harbor is that you guys are an international band and you don't all live in the same place. So I was wondering if you could touch on that a little bit. What it's like being in a band where you can't always be together?
Devesh Dayal
@deveshtation · 2:59
But there's definitely like a lot of people that come out to shows and stuff, and I think it's easier to kind of understand if you we made a little documentary series that followed us on one of our India tours and has us kind of discussing what it's like. And you get to actually see some of the shows and see what the travel is like through India, because you can't do it on a tour bus or whatever. You have to fly everywhere
It's a really great glimpse into what they have done in India and shows you a few members of the all the band, really, who are also all great guys. You talked a little bit about traveling in India. And so I'm curious, just as like a general question. You've traveled all over the world rather than just ask you what are your favorite destinations? I will ask you that
Devesh Dayal
@deveshtation · 3:51
And then, yeah, the touring experience for sort of smaller to mid level bands. I don't know. It's a lot of trial and error. You just kind of learn as you go. For us. In particular, there's a lot of more logistical obstacles, like getting visas and flight tickets
I think you hit on something that honestly is a little obvious to me now that we we've already touched on it. But, for example, when I when I went to Puerto Rico, I was driving on this road, that was I basically thought that we were going going to crash or fall off the cliff. And I like visualized it. And Meanwhile, there were people native to the city that were just flying by on these roads. They've traveled them zillions of times
Devesh Dayal
@deveshtation · 1:52
I think they're really pushing the boundaries of what it means to be, like a heavy band and really just taking some cool creative risks and forging, like, a unique Sonic identity because there's a lot of cookie cutter stuff out there right now, like a lot of music that just doesn't really it's just kind of generic, like, metal, cookie cutter riffs stuff and lows are really breaking the mold of what's possible in that realm
So I have to say that you listed a lot of really awesome bands. There some of my favorites. The Contortionists have to give them a shout out some of the coolest dudes in the scene. And actually, I met Devesh as a result of of knowing them. So that's how things happen sometimes in those small, prog metal world. And I kind of went through a rabbit hole just now of listening to all of those bands. And one of the things that I thought of was their gear