Coshish (India): Crossover Prog...maybe?

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A friend asked me to listen to the debut album by these guys - 'Firdous' (2013), and it isn't bad at all, so I said I'd run it past the team on here and see where it might lead...  
This is their bio from facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Coshish

"Fusing elements of Progressive Rock, with the more easily acceptable mainstream song writing styles of Hindi Rock, seems to come naturally to Mumbai based band Coshish. The band believes that their songs should have mass appeal and yet retain enough musical dexterity to appease technical musicians without compromising on simplicity. Their songs carry very strong social messages, delivered beautifully through Hindi lyrics. 

Coshish leaves little to be desired by ensuring that they do not compromise on any facet of their music."

Mangesh Gandhi - Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Mouth Organs
 Shrikant Sreenivasan - Lead Guitars
 Hamza Kazi - Drums, Xylophone
 Anish Nair - Bass

Here are a few tubes:

Everything you need to know about them can be found in this review of the album: http://absurdhistory.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/album-review-firdous-coshish-2013/

But the main links of interest are:
https://soundcloud.com/#coshish
http://www.myspace.com/coshish
http://www.youtube.com/coshishband

It may be tilted just a shade too much towards alternative rock for this site, but I'm gonna send the album to Diego and the boys anyway, and see what happens... 

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yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 5814	Topic: Coshish (India): Crossover Prog...maybe? Posted: December 09 2013 at 05:38
	A friend asked me to listen to the debut album by these guys - 'Firdous' (2013), and it isn't bad at all, so I said I'd run it past the team on here and see where it might lead... This is their bio from facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Coshish "Fusing elements of Progressive Rock, with the more easily acceptable mainstream song writing styles of Hindi Rock, seems to come naturally to Mumbai based band Coshish. The band believes that their songs should have mass appeal and yet retain enough musical dexterity to appease technical musicians without compromising on simplicity. Their songs carry very strong social messages, delivered beautifully through Hindi lyrics. Coshish leaves little to be desired by ensuring that they do not compromise on any facet of their music." Mangesh Gandhi - Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Mouth Organs Shrikant Sreenivasan - Lead Guitars Hamza Kazi - Drums, Xylophone Anish Nair - Bass Here are a few tubes: Everything you need to know about them can be found in this review of the album: http://absurdhistory.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/album-review-firdous-coshish-2013/ But the main links of interest are: https://soundcloud.com/#coshish http://www.myspace.com/coshish http://www.youtube.com/coshishband It may be tilted just a *shade* too much towards alternative rock for this site, but I'm gonna send the album to Diego and the boys anyway, and see what happens...

yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 5814	Posted: December 13 2013 at 15:17
	Well, three out of four of them approved it...and the other didn't actually say 'no'...so they're cleared in double quick time: http://progfreak.com/Coshish-158096.html?path=pa/recent. Thanks, guys!

hamzakazi Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: December 11 2013 Location: India Status: Offline Points: 2	Posted: December 14 2013 at 06:25
	Hello there! I'm the drummer of Coshish! Thanks for supporting us :) I'm not too sure how this works but if you need any help you can let us know :) I could also link you to the E-copy of the album if you'd like. Cheers from India!

yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 5814	Posted: December 14 2013 at 07:28
	Hello Hamza, and welcome to progarchives! Congratulations on a fine debut album! We would be really grateful if you could give us a bit of background information on how the band originated (and maybe its future plans?). This would be a big help for us when the team come to write your biography. The text I copied from facebook in my original post describes the music pretty well, but doesn't include any band history.

hamzakazi Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: December 11 2013 Location: India Status: Offline Points: 2	Posted: December 14 2013 at 13:00
	Thanks again :) We'd love to send you a few physical copies (since it's a concept album)! We'll send you the profile and the explanation of the concept if you could inbox me your email address :) Hope that's not a problem. Cheers!

yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 5814	Posted: December 14 2013 at 13:24
	We shouldn't need the physical copies of the album since the Crosssover team has already approved you for inclusion on here. The profile and explanation of the concept should ideally be sent to someone at the Crossover team (use the site's private messaging facilty - it's just the same as email really) . The leader of the team is Marty McFly. If you click on this link it will take you to a page where you will find another link to send him a private message.

TGArmy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: December 01 2013 Status: Offline Points: 61	Posted: December 15 2013 at 12:25
	Such a band! Great!