Member Since: 13/10/2007
Band Website: www.myspace.com/manishtunes
Influences: Love, Music Machine, Ultra Vivid Scene, T-Rex, Grateful Dead, Echo & The Bunnymen, Beatles, Donovan, Velvet Underground, Elliot Smith, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Neil Young, The Flaming Lips, David Bowie, The Doors.
Sounds Like: "The vocals have a gentle breathiness that emphasizes restraint and ambience over passion and bluster. The mood is downbeat, brooding inner-directed rock that's textured but usually has a jangling guitar base, with attractive if not arresting melodies, sometimes like a rather more psychedelic R.E.M. At its slower and less electric moments, it falls closer to Robyn Hitchcock territory, albeit with more earnestness than Hitchcock. In fact "Jubilee Hills," where Kalvakota's Indian influences become more prominent, gets pretty close to a vintage Donovan mood."-Richie Unterberger, allmusic.com
Record Label: Voltage Records
Type of Label: Indie