IN THE FALL OF 1995, RAJAN METS STAN (FORMER DRUMMER) IN A PARTY IN DOWNTOWN, HONOLULU. THEY LEFT THE PARTY AS STAN INVITED RAJAN FOR A QUICK JAM SESSION AT HIS APARTMENT. THEY PLAYED SOME COVERS FROM NIRVANA AND PEARL JAM; AND PLAYED FEW ORIGINALS. NEXT THING YOU HEAR IS THE WHOLE PARTY MOVING INTO STAN'S APARTMENT AND MAKING A WHOLE BUNCH MESS. ALONG WITH THE MESS, CREATED THE SONGS.  



 

BACK THEN, THE BAND WAS KNOWN AS MOKSHA UNTIL IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT A BAND WITH SUCH NAME ALREADY EXISTED IN INDIA. THEN THEY WENT ON A ROLLERCOASTER RIDE CHANGING THE NAME OF THE BAND FROM EMERALD TO IONUS, SANGYAS TO ANDROMEDA, IONIC TO FINALLY KOSHI. DURING MID 90'S, THE EXPLOSION OF NEW ALTERNATIVE BANDS CALIMED ALL "ONE WORD" NAMES. GOING BACK TO THE ROOTS, THE NAME KOSHI, A MASSIVE RIVER IN NEPAL THAT CROSSES THE HIMALAYAN KINGDOM FROM NORTH TO SOUTH WAS CHOSEN  FOR A METAPHORIC REASON, "A RIVER IS ALWAYS FLOWING, BUT IT'S ALWAYS THERE." DHARAN "CITY", KOSHI "STATE" IS ALSO A BIRTH PLACE OF RAJAN.

 

RAJAN MOVED TO OMAHA, NEBRASKA IN JULY OF 2005 TO VISIT HIS FAMILY MEMBERS AFTER PARTING FROM HIS GIRLFRIEND, MAR FROM MADRID. NEW BAND MEMBERS JOINED THE GROUP IN AUGUST '05. THE BAND IS IN THE PROCESS TO RECORD ITS UPCOMING 2ND ALBUM "LOVE AND TRAGEDY" FEATURING 14 NEW NEPALI AND ENGLISH SONGS. EACH MONTH A NEW SONG WILL BE RELEASED ON KOSHImusic WEBSITE, SO STAY TUNED! 



 

"Being aware of the chords we play will paint the music that is inside us. With this realization, the artist can truly channel out their feelings, emotions, chi, prana or cosmic energy through the vibration of sound. What comes out can be good or ugly, white or grey; it is a form art that we do not own it. Like lights reflecting we simply act as a medium."  
 

PERFECTION IS A BEAUTIFUL CURSE. TO ATTAIN "PERFECTION", KOSHI'S OLD SONGS SONGS "EMPTY" AND "ORION'S BELT" HAD BEEN CHANGED OVER NINE TIMES IN THE PROCESS OF CREATION AND THE BAND SAYS "THEY STILL SUCK!". PRE-AMPS, MICS AND MIXES WERE LOW END QUALITY. HOWEVER, THIS ALSO SERVED AS A LEARNING CURVE AS THEY RECORD THEIR OWN MATERIAL IN KOSHI STUDIO. DEMO'S WERE RECORDED IN "98 AND 2000 AND 2001. NEW ALBUM "IN MISTLETOE GARDEN IS RELEASED ONLINE FREELY IN 94 AND HAD OVER 110,500 DOWNLOADS AS OF 2008.  SONGS "OLD NAVY" AND "SEA BREEZE" CLIMBED UP THE CHART "TOP 50 SONGS" ON SOUND CLICK '04/'05, GARAGE BAND '05 AND MIXPOSURE '04/'05.


 

IMAGINE HAVING TO GIVE UP THE ONE WHO YOU LOVE THE MOST. WE ALL DO AT ONE POINT. KOSHI'S UPCOMING ALBUM "LOVE TRAGEDY" IS INSPIRED BY A LIFE EVENT OF TWO YOUNG PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT ETHNIC BACKGROUND WHO HAPPEN TO MEET IN A PLACE DURING THEIR EDUCATIONAL JOURNEY.   THEN IT ALL ENDS WITH A SWEET-TRAGIC TALE WHEN THEY HAVE TO LET GO OF EACH-OTHER IF THEY WERE TO TRULY LOVE ONE-ANOTHER. IT WAS WRITTEN.

ONCE UPON A TIME, A GUY WALKS INTO A DIFFERENT SECTION OF A STATS CLASS TO CATCH UP WITH MISSED LECTURES. THERE HE IS ASSIGNED WITH A GROUP OF STUDENTS AND ASKED TO CARRYOUT ASSIGNMENT AND BRING THEM IN THE NEXT MEETING SESSION. HE IS INTRODUCED TO A KIND HEARTED LADY IN THE GROUP, WHO HE IS DRAWN UPON. THE GUY SWITCHES HIS CLASS AND COMES TO THE NEXT MEETING SESSION SESSION. WEEKS PASS BY AND AT THE TIME OF THE COMPLETION OF THE CLASS, THE TWO FALL FOR ONE-ANOTHER.

IN THE PROCESS THEY SPEND 3 YEARS OF THEIR LIVES TOGETHER UNDER ONE SHED AND HELP EACH OTHER OUT THROUGH ROUGH TIMES. THE GIRL HELPS OUT THE GUY WITH HIS UNFINISHED SCHOOLING, AND THE GUY HELPS THE GIRL WITH HER HEALTH AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING ACCORDINGLY. AFTER A LONG HARD DAY, THEY WOULD COME HOME TO A COMFORT OF THEIR NEST AND FIND PEACE IN EACH-OTHERS ARMS.

AS TIME GOES BY, SO AS THEIR LOVE DEEPENS. HOWEVER THOUGH, LOVE ITSELF IS NOT ENOUGH IN THEIR CASE. THE REALITY STRIKES IN WHEN THEY HAVE TO CONSIDER TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR OLD PARENTS BACK HOME AND SURVIVING VAST CULTURAL DIFFERENCES. THE GUY COMES FROM SOUTH EAST ASIAN COUNTRY AND HAS TO RETURN BACK TO HIS HOME TO TAKE CARE OF HIS OLD PARENTS. COMING FROM A COUNTRY WHERE THE ECONOMIC LIVING STANDARD IS LOW AND CULTURALLY DIFFERENT, IT WOULD BE A GREAT STRUGGLE FOR A WESTERN GIRL TO LIVE IN SUCH ENVIRONMENT. THE GIRL ON THE OTHER-HAND MISSES HER PARENTS WHO ARE OLD AND LONELY BACK HOME IN EUROPE; WAITING IN VAIN FOR THEIR DAUGHTER TO RETURN. 

THE REALITY WAS SO CRUEL THAT IT WAS DIVIDING THEIR DESTINY AND DIVINITY. SINCE THE DAY THEY DISCOVERED THEIR LONG LOST LOVE WILL BE TAKEN AWAY AS THEIR FUTURE HOLDS DIFFERENT PATHS, THE COUNT DOWN IN THEIR LIVES BEGIN. DURING THIS EMOTIONAL TIMES, THEY BEGIN TO REALIZE THE VALUE OF EVERY SECOND MEANT EVERYTHING. BOTH OF THEM LEAD A SPIRITUAL LIFESTYLE, FOCUSING ON NOW, AND LET GO OF THE FUTURE. TOMORROW WILL COME THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO. IT WAS PAINFUL JOURNEY KNOWING THAT THEY WILL NOT BE SHARING THEIR LIVES TOGETHER, YET THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT IT REGARDLESS.

IN THEIR LAST DAYS, THEY SAY GOODBYE TO ONE-ANOTHER, NOT TO FORGET THE LIVES THEY LIVED, AND THE LESSONS THEY LEARNT. THEY TIED TWO BALLOONS AND SET THEM FREE UP IN THE SKY AS A METAPHOR FOR IF IT WAS MEANT TO BE IN THE NEXT TIME-SPACE, IT WILL. 

THERE WERE SO MUCH TO SAY, SO MANY DREAMS, SO MUCH TO SHARE AND GIVE; YET, ALL OF WHICH REMAINED DEEP WITHIN THEIR WISHES. AFTER BEING OCEANS APART FOR 3 MONTHS, THEY PROMISED TO BE EACH-OTHERS EXTENDED FAMILY AND BECOME THE SHADOW THAT CANNOT BE SEEN. 

ALTHOUGH THE DREAMS OF THE TWO CHARACTERS DOES NOT COME TRUE IN THEIR LIVES; WITH THEIR PAIN THEY WISH TO TAKE THE SUFFERINGS OF OTHERS WHO GO THROUGH SIMILAR PATHS IN LIFE. IN THEIR MEMORY, THE GIRL BUYS AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR FOR HIM TO REMEMBER HER; AND THE GUY WRITE SONGS FOR HER TO REMEMBER HIM. SOME OF WHICH ARE BEING CAPTURED IN THE ALBUM CALLED "LOVE AND TRAGEDY". THE ONLY THING THAT IS CONSTANT IN LIFE IS CHANGE, EMBRACE IT. 

    

 

IF IT WEREN'T FOR THESE INDIVIDUALS, WE WOULD SUCK: THE HAVE-NOTS, LESS-FORTUNATEs, SUICIDAL, HOMELESS, DEPRESSED, ANXIOUS, PATIENTS, AND INDIVIDUALS AND CREATURES WHO APPRECIATE MUSIC.

SPECIAL DEDICATIONS:
RAJAN WOULD LIKE TO THANK "EX" MAR DUQUE "FOR BEING THERE FOR ME IN TIME OF NEED, INSPIRING ME AND HELPING ME GRADUATE. WITHOUT YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT, GRADUATION WAS FAR FROM POSSIBLE", AUNT BISHNU RASAILY, BRO ROSHAN.

KOSHI WOULD LIKE TO DEDICATE: "LATE BROTHER SACHIN - MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE. THERE IS A NEW MEANING IN OUR LIVES", THE DIGAMSOR FAMILY, THE RASAILY FAMILY, OBASAN & THI YOUNG YI, SUMAN & THE GANG, ROHIT & THE FAMILY, SMALL/BIG AMITS & THE GANG, BHIM RAI, THE DOUG HOUSE CREW, THE PROJECTS CREW, EX-GURKHA HIGH/CHILDREN SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS/STUDENTS, NEBRASKA NEPALESE SOCIETY, TANDOOR RESTAURANT, OUR CHILDHOOD FRIENDS (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE), SEKKONG.COM, THE NEPALESE HAWAII SOCIETY, SHRINKHALA RAI, SARUNA SUBBA, WINNIE LAI, CAMILLA NAESS, VENESSA, MICHELLE, SIRI, AMY MICHELLE CAUSEY, HEATHER DANIELLE LAWRENCE, CYBER SANSAR, NEPALISITE, KTMROCKS, MURCHUNGA, DCNEPAL, SAJHA AND THE UNIVERSAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

WHAT GOES OUT GOOD, COMES BACK GOOD TIMES ONE. WHAT GOES OUT BAD, RETURNS 3 TIMES WORSE.

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KALPU: BORN IN NEPAL. NOW ATTENDING UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, OMAHA: COMPUTER SCIENCE. CURRENTLY IN SEARCH OF A GIRLFRIEND.

PAWAN: BORN IN NEPAL. NOW UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, OMAHA: COMPUTER SCIENCE. GOT MARRIED ALREADY.

BISHAL: BORN IN NEPAL. NOW ATTENDING COLLEGE IN NEBRASKA. ALSO RUNS HIS DAD'S GAS STATION. PLAYS AROUND. 

RAJAN: BORN IN DHARAN, NEPAL. RAISED IN HONG KONG AND HAWAII SINCE SIX. NOW IN IOWA.

 

AFTER A DECADE OF TRIAL AND ERRORS, KOSHI OFFICIALLY DECLARED IT'S PRESENCE IN OCTOBER OF 2003. "OUR MISSION IS TO TRANSCEND OUR AUDIENCE INTO THE WORLD OF IMAGINATION WHERE DREAMS ARE MANUFACTURED." GOD BLESS ALL AND MERCY TO ALL WHO ARE SUFFERING!