Album Art
COMPILATION
RETROSPECT
1. Wabi Sabi - Alt / Hip Hop / Rock
3. Sights. Sounds.City - Alt / Hip Hop / Rock
6. 1point1 - Hip Hop / Metal
8. Mined State - Alt / Hip Hop / Metal
From "Sharam Masala EP"
English Rap / Lyrics - XCPT (Aishan Vali)
Hindi Rap / Lyrics - A La Moksh (Sameer Ul Haq)
Production, Guitars, Bass, Vocals (Mined State 3rd Verse & Wabi Sabi Chorus) - No Hero
Recorded at The Sounds Within Studios (#20_Koramangala)
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2. Fragile
9. Tomorrow Never Comes One Day (Acoustic)
12. Tomorrow Never Comes One Day
From "Un Own EP"
Drums - Sidharth Rajmohan
Keys/Synth Bass - Aman Mahajan
Song writer, Production & Vocals - No Hero
Recorded at Inner Space Studios
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4. Wondering, Wandering
Keys - Aman Mahajan
Drums - Peter Joshua Francis
Guitars, Bass & Production - No Hero
7. The Only One
Vocals - Akrti
Drums - Peter Joshua Francis
Guitars, Bass & Production - No Hero
11. Internal Affairs
Guitars, Synths, Vocals, Lyrics & Production - No Hero
13. Disco Da Manchili
Drums - Peter Joshua Francis
Guitars, Bass & Production - No Hero
From "Bare Witness"
Recorded at The Control Room
Tracklist
2015
BARE WITNESS
The origins of No Hero are as amorphous as the journey itself - born from a casual jam with drummer extraordinaire, Peter Joshua Francis some evening in Indiranagar little epicentre of far left music, The Control Room, the music was deliberated from improvisation. A format that Akhil Kodamanchili has been developing as a means of hacking creativity and intention in all its shades and colours.
2016
UN OWN
Moving forward from No Hero’s schizophonic debut, the desire for deliberation and premeditated songwriting took the focus with the sophomore release Un Own. Recorded on a shoe string budget over a couple of days at Innerspace Studios & a few bedroom set-ups, this album features Aman Mahajan handling keys/synth bass and Siddharth Rajmohan holding down the grooves on the kit.
Album Art by the uniquely creative Sumera Azharuddin
2017
SHARAM MASALA
According to a study, conducted as recently as this morning, Sharam Masala’s Hip Hop-meets-Prog-rock-meets-electronica debut, clairvoyantly called Greatest Hits, is the best thing since vinegar flavoured ice cream.
Rappers Xcpt. (never won a spelling bee.) and A La Moksh (who?) strut jauntily onto No Hero a.k.a (No Friends Either)’s sonic landscape and proceed to dig up the flower bed.
We’ll shut up now.
Other projects that lead upto this collaboration:
no.$ - mode.aka
Other projects that happened around this time:
City as a Circus - Maara Collective
Other tracks that lead upto this collaboration:
Web of Our Fates feat Isha Anjali
Shuttle to wherever
Sudden Notion
WHY WERE THESE ALBUMS KINDA SHADY?
They were withdrawn? Yea...No Hero is an extremely DIY project and there were/are many steep learning curves - some technical, some emotional, and other I am yet to even define.
Stuck between self doubt, some genuine criticisms on the quality of the sound and my understanding (or lack thereof) of marketing such content, I found myself in a corner - do I start over, or do I re-do everything, or something in-between...I went with the last option.
I went back & remixed & remastered (probably yet again..) the tracks I cared for the most from each of the records, and abandoned those that I felt I couldn't salvage. I had lost project files for some tracks and there were personal frictions that had come and gone between collaborators too, so there was little room for outside perspective. Never the less, I hope this page on my website validates and gives some purpose to this music that went through a bit of a rough upbringing.
And if you're wondering what happened in 2018, there was an attempt at THIS, but the music never really saw the light of day, yet.
2019 was a year of hiatus due to personal circumstances.