Thermal And A Quarter's Jupiter Cafe

Ten songs, ten tales, signed off with the Jupiter Cafe.
From a college band in 1996, through thick and thin.
One demo album and then that dream debut on the international scene as opening band for the DNA-organised Deep Purple concert.
They''ve been rocking since, with such splendidly composed pieces as Brigade Street, Drunk and Without Wings.
For their fans in Bangalore and elsewhere across the country, the album will be a revelation, for the music has an international quality not only in terms of its content but also its engineering. Check out State of Mind, Respectable and Sanity in Gravity.
Jupiter Cafe has Bruce Lee Mani on guitars and vocals, Rajeev Rajagopal on drums and percussion, Rzhude on bass and vocals and Rajesh Mehar on backing vocals.
Bangalore was the scene of homegrown rock long before the rest of urbania caught up with it. But alas, when music channels and the record industry began booming in the late 80s and 90s, Bangalore was hopelessly out of the loop. Except for musician and composer Sandeep Chowta who made the transition from Club to Bollywood and soon an album of Hindi pop, embellished with jazz, rock, reggae and rock n'' roll.
It is in the context of Bangalore''s overall poor showing on the music scenario that the launch of Jupiter Cafe is commendable, for it has taken plenty of sweat, tears and courage to create and launch the album.
From our very own Planet M to other music outlets, Thermal And A Quarter''s newest CD is bound to garner an ever larger fan following.
For at the heart of the enterprise is the creation of songs that resonate with the mood of contemporary India. No quarter given.