then this is the first time we are releasing his full solo on video excerpts from our interaction with subir how was the idea of rereleasing but it rained born after we lost sonam on february 14 this year we wanted to do a big concert in his memory and had even finalised the date march 24 2020 several guest artistes were supposed to come in but because of covid19 we had to cancel everything however one day while we were thinking of ways to pay him tribute we realised that we had never released sonams full solo on video ever so we decided to rerelease but it rained again on his birth anniversary as a tribute to him and his iconic solo in this track but it rained talks hopelessness despair pain and loss choosing the song to release on sonams birth anniversary is it a way to tell the world the emptiness and void he has left in your lives and the band no not really frankly ive never really thought of it that way we chose but it rained because to date even after over 20 years we keep getting messages and videos of people for their love of the song and how it has helped them through bad times as support we still think that this song is relevant to everyone everyone connects to it in their own way and it surely will be relevant to the kids of today too the music video of but it rained was extremely popular and loved what more can the audience and the fans expect to see in the rereleased version of the song the video remains mostly the same there is just an addition of 22 seconds of grainy handycam footage added as thats the length of the missing guitar solo we really dont have the original video or audio recordings anymore thats a separate story all together chuckleswhat are some of the fondest memories of sonam that you cherish well there are just so many the common memory will always be that of the eversmiling and mischievous young boy who would be up for pranks 24x7 and still be one of the most hardworking humans we have ever seen we were together for 29 years of course the loss has changed us both emotionally and musically but as they when chips are down someone else has to pitch in so others have started putting in the ideas and started taking over composing duties as well besides nitin vocalist founding member has also started writing more new material how would you want the world to remember sonam exactly as he was 100 the same no change what are your upcoming projects loads of new music coming up two new tracks almost ready and lots of other stuff with the pandemic turning our lives upside down how has it impacted music and independent artistes most of us livedoff live concerts and thats totally demolished so i guess