Peter Cat Recording Co.

Peter Cat Recording Co. is an alternative rock band from Delhi, founded in 2009 around singer and guitarist Suryakant Sawhney. In 2008, while living in San Francisco, Sawhney had a spiritual experience that convinced him to take music seriously. There he met Jeremy Cox of Royal Baths, who recorded and helped produce the first demos. Family and money pressures brought him back to Gurgaon in early 2010, and he spent that year learning production. The project grew into a five-piece with local musicians including drummer Karan Singh.

The current line-up is Sawhney, Singh, bassist Dhruv Bhola, Rohit Gupta on keyboards and trumpet, and multi-instrumentalist Kartik Sundareshan Pillai. Rohan Kulshreshtha and Anindya Shankar are listed as former members. The band's sound mixes rock with cabaret, jazz and indie pop. Its albums include Sinema (2011), Climax (2015), Transmissions (2016), Bismillah (2019), Happy Holidays (2020) and BETA (2024), and the compilation Portrait of a Time: 2010-2016 came out in 2018. Sawhney also records solo as Lifafa.