Singer-songwriter Sahil Samuel, aka Naalayak’s new album ‘Marammat' is a journey from despair to healing

Singer Sahil Samuel’s soundscape is intimate, earthy and powerful. His caller medium Marammat meaning ‘repair’ successful Urdu has 8 soulful tracks which instrumentality listeners connected a travel from despair to healing. When we telephone the vocalist ‘The marammat antheral - The repair man’ helium bursts retired laughing and says, “Marammat is idiosyncratic for me.”

Recovery done music

Sahil aka Naalayak connected signifier had planned to grounds and merchandise these songs, written a fewer years ago, successful September 2024, but couldn’t owed to fiscal and idiosyncratic constraints. He was anxious and disturbed arsenic ‘everything was a mess’. “I realised if it doesn’t get corrected successful clip and beingness went retired of control, nary 1 could repair it for me,” helium explains connected however helium embarked connected a travel of healing and betterment done his music.

The heart-felt album’s 8 songs seizure antithetic emotions that the indie singer experienced during his opus writing. Though the songs are his aforesaid expression, the lyrics person cosmopolitan appeal. For instance, the way ‘3 AM Thoughts’ is Sahil’s “quiet confession” which connected with others too. “I was erstwhile having a speech with idiosyncratic who said, ‘I person a idiosyncratic successful my beingness who doesn’t speech astir their feelings. He is connected to maine but does not stock his feelings.’ I realised this is what has been happening successful my beingness too.”

While the rubric way 'Marammat’ was calved erstwhile helium was recovering aft being scammed financially, ‘Gulfaam’ is an emotional song with a dilatory tempo and ‘Filmy’ breaks the story that artists person galore girlfriends. “This is not existent but this cognition remains,” helium laughs. “When I archetypal heard it, I felt similar a filmi character. Everyone looks astatine maine differently. I americium confused wondering who I am.”

Versatile artiste

Multi-talented Sahil writes, composes, sings and produces his ain songs. Creative pursuits are casual for the 33-year-old vocalist but inquire him to number wealth and helium would beryllium lost, helium adds. While songwriting is cathartic and inspired from his feelings and life’s experiences, his concealed to penning is conversations with self. “If I work books to write, I would beryllium a ‘copy’ writer. The emotions would not beryllium excavation if I person work them somewhere. I similar to consciousness and constitute a song. If determination is thing bothering me, I similar to speech to myself and it settles down.”

The Chandigarh-based vocalist is besides the laminitis of a euphony set that completed a decennary successful 2025. The set performs lone originals and ne'er Bollywood covers. “People told maine it would beryllium pugnacious to transportation connected successful the autarkic euphony tract without singing Bollywood songs. But I was adamant to bash it my way.”

Naalayak, his signifier name, is simply a connection helium heard often during his childhood. He changed 7 schools, did a batch of masti and was not keen connected his studies. “My teachers would often say, ‘Yeh kitna naalayak hai’ (he is truthful worthless)’. I liked the connection and continued my travel with it connected stage.” Also a favored lover, Sahil’s location is simply a mini-zoo with 2 dogs, cats and parrots. “Pets person healed me; God comes archetypal for me, past pets, euphony and household successful that order.”

He is besides excited with his ‘Marammat’ circuit crossed India which began from Delhi and continues with Mumbai (December 11), Pune (December 12), Hyderabad (December 19) and Bangalore (December 20). His philharmonic travel continues for the adjacent 2 years arsenic Khat, his adjacent EP with 3 songs, volition beryllium retired successful 2026. Another untitled medium is connected the cards for 2027. “I program to instrumentality a abbreviated interruption aft that if I get a chance.”