Sitarist Hidayat Khan describes his legendary father Ustad Vilayat Khan with words that are anything but conventional. "He was a bit of a nomad; a maverick [who] was constantly sort of a contradiction. He kept challenging us to break tradition. A family that practices classical [music] can typically uphold a mindset that is fixated on music. In traditional music families, sometimes, schooling is also not promoted because it can [be a distraction from music]. But dad always told us to go out, have fun, go backpacking and experience life. He told us to imbibe everything that we could learn from the world."

It is possibly this habit of experimenting that enabled the sitarist to create a track, Back Seat Bass, that blends a bass duet with the sitar, along with his band, Vinyl Kut.