a major share of their popularity comes from asia and scandinavia and the popular soft and pop rock band michael learns to rock aka mltr has performed at concerts across asia for many years in fact they were among the first major bands from outside india to have performed in the country back in 1996 while they had performed in mumbai before their concert in pune a couple of days ago was their first ever in the city in a chat the band spoke about how music has evolved since the 90s what makes the band stay together in a time when artistes are going solo and what they feel about being popular across generations of music loverswe mean what we do our music is genuineif youve heard their music over the years you will agree that the threepiece band with jascha richter lead vocalist keyboards guitar piano mikkel lentz lead guitar backing vocals keyboards and kre wanscher drums percussionbacking vocals have stayed away from trends and contemporary music to stay true to their memorable melodies in the beginning people saw three young guys playing very emotional love songs which i feel appealed to a lot of people what they see now is three notsoyoung men standing on the stage and singing beautiful love songs this still appeals to the audience because i am absolutely sure they know that we mean what we do and that our music is very genuine says kreindian food is my favourite when we are in india we try all kinds of indian dishesstarting with good chicken curry kre wanschersticking to their rootsin the era of remixes and remakes popular melodies from the 80s and 90s are going viral across social media platforms mltr sticks to its roots to create music they feel genuinely about the band says they dont need to chase trends or get into the contemporary space mikkel adds i look at what we do from a carpenters perspective we dont feel a huge need to make a very modern chair we make a chair that works i think we are oldschool as a band so when we hear a new sound on the radio we dont take that sound and put it into mltrs music citing the example of their album scandinavia which was released in 2012 mikkel says it was in a way a journey of going back to their roots we played all our instruments in the oldfashioned way and used a computer as a record player instead of using it for programming like most people do now he sayslove for 90s musicthe band tells us about the indian artistes theyve listened to weve listened to shaan lesle lewis and ravi shankar among others just recently we went to a party in mumbai where they played my kind of musiconly music from the 90s which felt really nice says jascha spontaneously breaking into a performance to hands up by ottawan i love the fact that people listen