Three friends spend a gruelling winter in a Siberian forest and they survive. When they come out of it, their bond is unbreakable. Such is the tale behind Mr Maloouk and the Goombas, a Mumbai-based funk/soul band's journey, founded this year, by keyboardist and producer Avyay Gujral, guitarist Ashwin Raghavan and vocalist Urmila Sivadas. Their camaraderie comes through in their humility to gently take a step back when the other is talking. And perhaps that is why, their latest song titled Caterpillars, released late last month, is a cracker because good chemistry necessarily preempts good music.

For them, the band, the video — which has been produced at zero cost — and the music itself was largely a product of trial and error that developed organically over spending an unending number of hours together cooped up in a room.