User:Journey from 605

Journey from 605 is an experimental Duo that believes in the elevation of souls through Music. The Duo consists of Musicians Lakshya Upadhyaya and Qassam Hussain.

They have known each other from college in 2015 and their music scene started from a hostel room no. 605 in Greater Noida. Later on, the project was abandoned in 2017 when after a couple of years of efforts into making independent music ended up unsuccessful for them.

Lakshya then moved to Mumbai and Qassam moved back to his hometown Kashmir.

Later after 2019, they decided to come together and finish what they had started and decided to work independently on EP. This is where the idea for Antarmukhi kicked in.

They had already started working on this EP more than a year ago and in 2019 where they initially had no clue where their collaboration is going to lead them, but it started with the first song Antarmukhi and it all just went in a flow followed by the others. It took them 2 years to complete the EP from writing and composing it and producing it independently.

Lakshya then gets Ravi Khatri on board for mixing the EP.

Ravi Khatri is a professional sound engineer who was working at Riversound Studio (Acoustriks) in Bandra and is active in the Indian Film Industry.

Ravi and Lakshya have worked together on a couple of commercial projects in Mumbai for over 2 years and personally know each other very closely. Ravi's sound sense brought life to the EP.

The EP consists of 4 songs i.e Antarmukhi, Mein Insaan, Dhoor and Madno.

The idea behind all the songs is to connect the audience with the so-called 'psychotic breakdown' but they wanted to go decent with it and without any genre boundaries, they believed that the expression of existential crisis and psychotic breakdown is extremely misunderstood in society and there is a need to normalise it, and so they made an EP around this idea.

Antarmukhi is a hindi word for ‘Introvert’ and is a multi-genre EP with an essence of Indie Rock, Indie Folk and Folk Rock.

EP was wholly independently produced and distributed by Lakshya Upadhyaya and Qassam Hussain as a duo 'Journey from 605'. They recorded the EP at their apartment in Delhi (Chattarpur) with their basic sound gear and then get it all mixed/mastered in Mumbai at Riversound Studio by the Sound Engineer Ravi Khatri.

Later Ishita Thawait was taken on board for the artwork of the songs.