Updated On: 09 October, 2023 07:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla
Set to release the second edition of his album Songs of Trance tomorrow, Amit Trivedi on how accepting sorrow during the lockdown helped him deliver a successful album

Amit Trivedi
A glimpse of his social media page reveals that Amit Trivedi is becoming pleasantly comfortable with expressing himself on social media. The irony, however, is that questions on juggling entrepreneurship with music composition appear to open a Pandora’s box. “I hate it. While creating [music] we have to go into a shell. We disconnect from [everything] around us, and create something in a shell. And then we have to break out of the shell to tell the world, hey, this is what I created in my shell,” he says in a comical rant, asserting that today, marketing his music is “as much a job” as creating it.
Ahead of the release of the second edition of his album, Songs of Trance, Trivedi recalls the restiveness he encountered in the absence of a creative outlet, during the pandemic. “I have a working mind, and when [artistes are forced] to suddenly stop working, it becomes difficult to understand what to do with the mind. It is my job to put out music. That’s my destiny. In that state of mind, while we were being bombarded with negative news, I encountered a shift. Songs of Trance [part one] was created then,” reveals the musician, quick to assert that sorrow isn’t an emotion that creators need to brush under the carpet while approaching their work.