Here's the thing about classifying music into genres. It’s like segregating supermarket products into different shelves. The whole exercise is meant to make things easier for the consumer. But sometimes, you can get confused in the aisles. You may ask yourself, “Should I buy a progressive-rock record or a metal one?” But that’s all right. It’s an understandable question because, what’s in a genre? It’s all music at the end of the day, songs that are inherently the same product simply packaged differently. It’s not like choosing between dishwashing liquid and a packet of rice.

That’s the sort of feeling you get from King of Summer, Kolkata guitar veteran Rohan Ganguli’s debut solo album. It might seem like a jazz record at first (and there are definitely recurring elements of that particular genre over the course of nine songs). But you also discover other elements like rock and western classical as you start peeling the layers. Ganguli says, “When people ask me to bracket the record, I tell them to bracket it in whatever way they want. Some think it’s some experimental fusion thing. Others find it to be pure jazz. But I’d rather not describe it at all.”