“The Mumbai singer-songwriter’s full-length record ‘Make It Happen’ plays to his strengths and offers some pleasant surprises too”
- Rolling Stone India
“With full conviction from start to finish, Tejas delivers a compelling, varied album.”
– Anurag Tagat, The Hindu
“It’s as colorful and charming as the accompanying album art. The entire album is wholesome and cinematic in ways the Indian singer-songwriter scene hasn’t experienced before.”
– Archit Shetye, Beehype
Credits
Music and Lyrics by Tejas
Recorded at Cotton Press Studio, Mumbai, India
Album Art by Studio Kohl
Produced by Jehangir Jehangir and Tejas
Mixed by Warren Mendonsa
Mastered by Dave Turner at 360 Mastering
Published by Anara Publishing, UK
Vocals and Guitars: Tejas
Guitars and Backing Vocals: Jishnu Guha
Drums, Additional Percussion, Synth Production: Jehangir Jehangir
Percussion, Grand Piano, Rhodes and Backing Vocals: Aalok Padhye
Bass and Backing Vocals: Adil Kurwa
Additional Guitars: Warren Mendonsa
Additional Backing Vocals: Maalavika Manoj
Recording Engineers: Nikhil Salve, Prashant Dogra
Photography: Vikas Munipalle
‘Foresight’
Lyrics by Heather Andrews and Tejas
‘Wine’
Rhodes: Rohan Rajadhyaksha
Alto Saxophone: Rhys Sebastian
Tenor Saxophone: Ryan Sadri
Trumpet: Meera Fernandes
Trombone: Ramon Ibrahim
This album has never felt more personal than it is now, and the funniest thing is that it’s been made
by so many different people who have all unconditionally loved and contributed to its formation. I
don’t even know some of these people properly and yet it still feels so personal. I want to thank
everyone who contributed to the making of it financially and creatively, all your names are below in
the credits cause honestly that’s how we made it happen.
Executive Producers: Anish Malpani | Kirk C. Lobo | Harendra Kapur
Associate Producer: Aaron Gomes
Make it Happen was funded by Siddharth Kakani, Abhilash LR, Mana Santhanam, Asha Meenakshi
Manoj, MC Manoj, Beena Rammohan, Mehvash Peerbhoy, Abhinav Suraiya, Aparna Naresh, Prithvi
Lopez, Aditya Tambe, Abhishek Choudhury, Aaron Gomes, Simrin Makhija, Anuja P, Bluetree
Studios, Prasad Naik, Anisha Lanewala, Chitra Menon, Anand Raman, Jason Petlueng, Faizan Ansari,
Vijayalakshmi Menon, Tristen Ashchi, Zafar, Amiel Satvedi, Krunal Jain, Astha Srivastava, Rahul Advani,
Aarushi Mishra, Ratik Sharma, Cliffton Fernandes, Samagra Chauhan, Shrabosti Chowdhury, Anumita
Das, Aarish Bhathena, Sahil Mehra, Komal Shivdasani, Rajiv Jacobi, Astha Chopra, Aditya Murthy, Arun
Menon, Heather Andrews, Rupa Basu, Arrsh Bajaj, Abhishek Chandran, Sravya Abburu, Nigel Dias,
Dallas Fernandes, Neharika Gupta, Himanshi Agrawal, Bhavini Johar, Himali Sehgal, Sangeetha Menon,
Deepak Gopalakrishnan, Karun Kannampilly, Mahima Mathur, Vishal Menon, Jonathan Pillay, Mehvash
Peerbhoy, Anish Gupta, Fatima Ali, Larika Mallier, Shikhar Chaudhary, Sunita Shetty, Shruthi Vijayan,
Shreyashish Sengupta, Ali Khan, Satori Pansare, Maalavika Manoj, Samoneh Khan, Krish Makhija,
Aarifah Rebello, Ruchira Ramkrishna, Tanya Dubey, Bilal Ansari, Prianca Kamidi, Omar Khan, Ramesh
Gopalkrishnan, Girish Bobby Talwar, Srikeit Tadepalli, Ranbir Bhalla, Dinkar Dwivedi, Omar Iyer, Akhil
Panchal, Romit Sen, Rohit Pereira, Chaya Gupta, Mohit Mukhi, Goldwin Fonseca, Gowri, Sooraj Bishnoi,
Shivam Phadtare, John Samuel, Samira Khan, Joseph Vincent, Namrata Juneja, Nidish Nair, Ralph
Godinho, Amit Doshi, Aariz Saiyed, Debashish Sikdar, Davison Ancheril, Nishant Mehta, Siddhant Shetty,
Dr J R Patell, Riqwan Thamir, Aditi Bhaskaran, Shawn Fernandes, Moin Panwar, Vernon Noronha,
Ashaita Mahajan, Meghana Bhogle, Sumana Suresh, Niyati Rambhia, Veer Shetty, Richa Mukerjee,
Shonali Mani.
Acknowledgments
Uttara, Warren and Krish, thank you for the guidance. Honestly couldn’t have made it till here without your wisdom and inputs. Also maybe I’ll even pay you back someday! I’m so lucky to have a band that constantly reminds me that good musicians also do like my work, and are willing to put a lot at stake for it, Jehangir, Adil, Aalok, Jishnu, I love you guys. Ali, Romit, Harry, Anish you all are bastards, thanks for keeping the lights on at my place, definitely never paying you guys back. Mali, I'm doing all this to impress you, but the truth is I couldn't have done any of this without you, thanks for being my rock; this album is good-ah? Mira and Studio Kohl, thanks for giving me the gift of your art, thanks for indulging my nonsense. Chetan and Sunita, you guys are legends and that’s for being the constant inspiration in my life; I hope I’m not a poth anymore. I want to thank my parents for turning me into what I am, a lot of what I do is result of my upbringing and there’s no two ways about it. Special thanks to my brother Akhil, he’s a good dude and has always supported me in my work, and is also genuinely a fan of my music and that is priceless. I want to thank the good people at Wishberry, Anshulika and specially Abhilash, I appreciate the faith you had in me and man, you guys are such rockstars. Neysa, I used to see your name in a bunch of albums and used to wonder, damn she must be some kinda MVP. I get it now, thank you so much for your input on this album. If I worked with Studio Kohl, it's cause of you. Vikas, thanks for lending your time and expertise to my first ever photoshoot! See you at another tabletop. I want to specially thank Rhys, Ryan, Ramone, and Rohan for taking Wine to the next level with your work, its really turned into something amazing.
