Euphoria performs on Sunday night. Picture by Biju Boro

Dec. 28: The city’s young and the young-at-heart jived to the pulsating music of rock band Euphoria, which set the Don Bosco past pupils’ meet “Nostalgia 2003” on fire tonight.

The eclectic band comprising Palash, Gary, Rikki, Benny, Chris and DJ left the jam-packed crowd at the Don Bosco High School ground mesmerised with their energised performance.

Starting with Bande Mataram, the band moved onto hit numbers Yaisa Ek Jahan from their latest album Gully and Rok Seko To Rok Lo, which had the fans screaming for more.

“The crowd is absolutely music-loving and very good. And the biggest factor is that the people of the Northeast know music and so it is difficult to play just anything since the people are so aware,” Palash gushed.

Speaking exclusively to The Telegraph earlier, Palash said, “Eastern crowd is more into western rock and they accept you only in terms of your talents and not because of the hype or hoopla that surrounds you.”

“The response here is overwhelming because of the fact that people know music. Moreover, the people here are very much in tune with their emotions,” peeped in Gary.

On being asked about the genre of their music, Palash described it as the fusion of two different cultures — that of the East and the West. He said even if their style is a bit Western, but the melody and the lyrics are typically Indian — “a happy mix of the Indian and the West”.

“People go on making the same kind of formula music, but we do not look at a set formula and make up our songs in that manner, but what we do is an honest effort of our works,” Gary said.

They described their latest album Gully as “the culmination of lot of their experiences over the past years and the culmination of the sound of being Euphoria, the journey that we had undertaken which is still on”. The band’s latest album Ab Na Jaa, which is ruling the music charts all over the country, is portrayed with the underlying theme of separation.

Euphoria claimed to have received a lot of influence starting from jazz to rock to classical music. “And our main inspiration is love.”

“Aisa ek Jahaan is about the love that is needed today,” Palash said.

He rued the fact that people listen to the music, but do not give importance to the lyrics or the themes of the songs. He said their new album Soniya would be out very soon. Palash said both folk and rock are kinds of raw forms of music and this juxtaposition of two very different kinds of music came very naturally to them.

The band members plan to chill out in Guwahati in a river cruise on the Brahmaputra.

When asked to name their favourite Assamese singer, the band members cried out — Bhupen Hazarika. Incidentally, Mayukh Hazarika, nephew of the legendary singer, was a member of the band for some time.