Indus Rush

Indus Rush's first album with Rock songs, Orchestrations and Tunes interwoven with synths and guitars, musical tales & anecdotes influenced by our travels.

Music for all generations: Indus Rush's first album of Rock songs, Orchestrations and Tunes interwoven with synths and guitars, musical tales and anecdotes influenced by travels from the shores of Koh Samui, through the Asian sub-continent to the hills of Southern Scotland.

Indus Rush is the brainchild of musician and producer, Stephen Whitby, and is designed to be the vehicle of Steve’s own songs and productions. All of the musicians are real of course, but never really get together in one studio as the whole product is recorded with session players over the Internet, and mixed down and produced by Steve in his makeshift Dalbeattie Studio.

Stephen Whitby started making music at High School in the 70’s but left the UK in 1979 at the advent of Thatcherism. After stints in Holland, Belgium and Thailand over a period of 30 years, he finally made it back to Scotland in 2008, together with his Thai wife and 3 children.

Most of Steve’s playing career was with European, American, Australasian and British musicians performing and blending many styles of music from around the world on a glorious beachfront setting called Secret Garden, on Koh Samui, in the Gulf of Thailand. Some of the most notable performers Steve played with included Adrian Fisher (Sparks), David Glasper and Ian “Spike” Spice (Breathe), Sparko (Doctor Feelgood), Mathew Kelly (Kingfish & The Grateful Dead), G Carlsberg (Herman Broods Wild Romance) Wölli Münchhausen (Die Toten Hosen) Jaap de Jonckheere (Urban Heroes) and Hans Vermeulen (producer and ex Sandy Coast front man) to name but a few.

‘Upon returning to Scotland it’s taken a few years to get settled and organised, but now I’m starting to be creative again, and so here are a few songs from over the years, some old, some new, but all of them being relevant in my move from Asia to Scotland, hence “From The East Down to The West. ”
Two of the songs were played live at Secret Garden, and two others were written and recorded in demo form there. The rest are a mixture of ideas written down when I was at school and some completely new songs written recently. ’

This album is unique he feels, as he feels he has a song for everyone from any era over the last 40 years.