1. Here in the Morning (Sridhar/Thayil) Amit ‘Amz’ Ahuja: bass Virendra G. Kaith: drums Stefan Kaye: electric piano, organ Suman Sridhar: vocals, acoustic piano intro Jeet Thayil: guitars, arrangement 2. Bring Me Rain (Sridhar) Jake Charkey: cello Sonu Sangameswaran: bass Suman Sridhar: vocals, melodica, arrangement Jeet Thayil: guitars, vocal arrangement 3. The Drowning Song (Thayil) Amit ‘Amz’ Ahuja: bass Shirish Malhotra: flute Paul Rodrigues: trumpet Kishore Sodha: trumpet Suman Sridhar: vocals, arrangement Jeet Thayil: guitar, vocals, arrangement 4. Punk Bhajan (Thayil) Dwight Pattison: bass Kishore Sodha: trumpet Jitendra Thakur: violin Suman Sridhar: vocals, harmonium Jeet Thayil: guitars, arrangement 5. Her Hymn (Sridhar) Adrian d’Souza: drums Suman Sridhar: vocals, arrangement Jeet Thayil: vocals, additional lyrics 6. Time is a Bomb (Thayil) Suman Sridhar: vocals Jeet Thayil: vocals, arrangement 7. I’m the One (Thayil) Adrian d’Souza: drums Dr Das: bass Kishore Sodha: trumpet Suman Sridhar: vocals, arrangement Jeet Thayil: guitars, arrangement 8. Presents (Sridhar) John Jaideep Thirumalai: acoustic bass Lindsay D’Mello: djembe, wood block, shakers Shirish Malhotra: bass clarinet Suman Sridhar: vocals, organ, piano, arrangement Jeet Thayil: additional lyrics 9. City of Sisters (Sridhar/Thayil) Suman Sridhar: vocals, arrangement Jeet Thayil: vocals 10. Rumours of Light (Thayil) Jitendra Thakur: viola Suman Sridhar: vocals, piano, arrangement 11. Single & Preying (Sridhar) Sonu Sangameswaran: bass Suman Sridhar: vocals, arrangement Jeet Thayil: guitars, vocal arrangement 12. This Be The Beat (Sridhar/Thayil) Dr Das: bass Suman Sridhar: vocals, arrangement Jeet Thayil: vocals All other instrumentation programmed by Suman Sridhar, except for ‘Time Is A Bomb’ programmed by Sridhar/Thayil. Recorded at many homes in many cities; Blue Frog Studios, Purple Haze Studios, Whistling Woods International School and Furtados Music (Bombay); Quarter Note Studios and Fender Music Academy (New Delhi); Red Reception, Harrow (UK). 'Her Hymn,' 'Bring Me Rain,' 'Rumours of Light,' 'This Be The Beat,' 'Presents,' 'City of Sisters' produced by Suman Sridhar; 'Single & Preying' produced by Suman Sridhar and Sonu Sangameswaran; 'Here In The Morning,' 'Punk Bhajan,' 'Time Is A Bomb,' 'I'm The One,' 'The Drowning Song' produced by Sridhar/Thayil. Album art and cover: Kunal Anand @ cabein Drawings, collages and sketches: Jeet Thayil, Suman Sridhar, Kunal Anand S/T bar code: Noush Like Sploosh Photography: Shivani Gupta, Suguna Sridhar Mixing: Will Davies ('Here In The Morning,' 'The Drowning Song,' 'Punk Bhajan,' 'Presents,' 'City Of Sisters', ‘I’m The One’); Suman Sridhar ('Bring Me Rain,' 'Time Is A Bomb,' 'Rumours Of Light'); Sonu Sangameswaran (‘This Be The Beat’,' 'Her Hymn,' 'Single & Preying'). Mastering: Liberty Ellman Album concept + production: Sridhar/Thayil Thank you: Dee Wood for the ‘75 Mesa Boogie and the lessons in music, Chintan Kalra, Sahej Bakshi, Joseph George for the lessons in logic, Sonu Sangameswaran, Muhammad Ali for the dance lesson, Ishan Naik, Carmelita Lobo, Noush like Sploosh for reminding us of the man, the pie and bloodymindedness, Karthikeyan Ramachandran, vocalises, Chairman Mao and The Bald Soprano, Tejal Shah for her eye and her mind’s I, Kenny Rebello, Vinay Lobo, Pravvy Prav, Viru, Amz who made us turn three, psychoactivated, the great ladies of jazz, LAL for their large hearts and the large format of our album art, Suguna Sridhar for joining S with T and visual poetry with blind faith, Exit The King, Christopher Hogwood, Dr Johnson and Pierrot Lunaire, Sapna Bhavnani for balaatkaar-barter road-black list, Mad O Wot, Divya Guha, Simar Puneet, Arijit Datta, Shivani Gupta, Kini, Vandana Menon, Abhijeet Tambe, Purav Sood, Maya, G, Rahul Giri, Tanvi Rao, Kabir Singh, NorBlack NorWhite and WeThePeople, our fellow bandrats, the community work studios of 12RR, False Ceiling and Ms. T, Stefan Kaye for managing directorship of mergers and acquisitions, Fyodor for madness, Anamika Singh for innumerable terrace dawns, Ulhas Shelke for giving us life on the www, Om Beach, Priyanka Joseph who was the first to get it right, the many who subsequently got it wrong, Koshys, Uday Benegal, Matt Daniels, Jake Bloch, Denzil Smith, Anil Kably, Zenzi (come back!), Cliffy, Bangalore for making us right, the Kannadiga right for shooing us away, the LGBT left for feeding us still, Bombay for making glamour out of grime and mirth out of muck, the Georges and Sridhars for fuelling the factory, the buck, Prathamesh Naravane, Furtados Music for the use of their grand pianos, Galle Lighthouse, the Brighton and London couchsurf communities, our supporters, teachers, critics and co-conspirators everywhere in the world, and you for waiting, reading, listening. Yours, S/T PRESS "travelling electric soul show" "raised hell, done centrespreads and been axed on grounds of edginess." "Their music has the free-spirited air of something that doesn’t go for hitmaking so much as it gets a lot off the chests of its makers. And yet, in performance, they play with the chops and the presence of seasoned, big-name performers, without any amateurism or self-doubt at all. If the stage is a band’s best chance of selling themselves, of persuading the world that they are more important and more powerful than they seem, of making a miserable life seem full of joy and spark, then Sridhar and Thayil win. I’m convinced." "Genre-pigs bill Sridhar/Thayil as “experimental/electronic”. Hip as that is, this description falls wide off the mark: experimentation and electronics make up the detail; the foundation of S/T music, though, is all-natural big-beat, jazz-funk, and performance art." "As performers, the two of them are wildly in contrast to each other; this contrast drives the music, whose thrills can be as traditional as an easy, shimmering mood piece or as unexpected as loud whack-job scatting and shouting. Sridhar and Thayil are built on a paradox." -- http://moopcity.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/sridhar-thayil/#more-476 "Her woozy, damaged-goods voice takes on a Nicki Minaj-like veneer on ‘Her Hymn’, where her operatic trills suddenly erupt into the demonic laughter of a possessed child; the next few lines of lyrics, sung in the same voice, promise to be the creepiest few seconds of your day." "the word “unhinged” comes to mind repeatedly." "Sridhar’s melange of quirkiness and talent reach an unearthly balance." "Thayil’s spoken-word artistry tells almost a nursery rhyme-like tale about the scars of time; Sridhar vocalises in the background almost as if she were warming up for another song." "their elastic mystique: her silky-smooth vocals syncing perfectly with his gravelly menace, the angel and the devil, polar opposites that fit perfectly together." "On each song, the band has created a peculiar atmosphere: half-whimsy, half-cleverness, fully original." "Sridhar/Thayil are still one of the most eccentric, experimental, and unique bands in the Indian scene." - helter skelter (http://helterskelter.in/2012/05/cd-review-s-t-d/) "More often than not, the weirdness is wondrous." "“Bring Me Rain”...could be the Indian indie electro-pop version of a kajri, the North Indian semi-classical song form where the lyrics describe a woman’s longing for her lover during the monsoon." "“Punk Bhajan” is neither punk nor a bhajan, yet its stringing of sargams and harmonium with funky guitar, cool trumpet playing and melodramatic strings is ingenious." "The most significant part of Sridhar/Thayil’s appeal, however, comes from their proclivity to pull together disparate ideas into an occasionally awkward but ultimately workable hybrid." -- Amit Gurbaxani for Mumbai Boss