Formed in the year 2000, Mantra is a Darjeeling based band that was initially a three men band with Praggya on lead guitars, Bishal on drums and on bass. After playing instrumentals at gigs for few months, they realized that they needed a vocalists and that is when Vaskar Dewan and Manish Thapa joined in as a keyboardist followed by Bidhan on the flute. Hence, the Mantra completed and the band released their first single ‘Timi Bina’ which was included on the collection album ‘Gorkha Rocks’. The popularity of the song encouraged them to work on their own album.
The name Mantra was chosen for the band because they wanted something different than the conventional way of using English names for the bands and also for the good luck, as the term Mantra has holy connotation. Inspired by the Nepali rock bands like Robin & the New Evolution, Mukti & Revival, 1974 A.D, this Darjeeling based band believes that the Nepali rock music is getting better than before.
Have a look at this amazing cover of one of Mantra’s song: Jaba Samma by Jiten Thapa and his friend.
