There's a new social media-type application called Indaband, where musicians and vocalists can team up to create music with others around the world. Because it's made for those musicians who usually play alone, you get this feeling that you are playing in a worldwide band (get it, Indaband?). You create a video of yourself playing an instrument, and others can stitch their own video of themselves playing their instrument on top of your original recording.

All you need to get started on Indaband is a pair of headphones and a smartphone to record yourself. You can also choose to upload prerecorded files as new tracks or open the app's recording booth to record your tracks on top of someone else's. Using the app's multitrack video studio, you can record unlimited video tracks in different sessions and share them with your community. Indaband will send you a notice every time some other user uses one of your tracks in collaboration so that you know how they have used their interpretation of the content.

The application has been founded by CEO Daniel Murta, CTO Andrews Medina, and Head of Engineering Helielson Santos and Design Leader Emerson Farias. The co-founders came with the idea for the application while working at a legal technology company called Jusbrasil, which Murta co-founded.

They would all get together during happy hours after work to play some music, and after the pandemic, they came up with the idea of Indaband, so they could continue playing music together, despite being at home in quarantine. A while passed working on Indaband over weekends, and at a certain point, they decided to resign from Jusbrasil to devote themselves to Indaband full-time.

"Music creation is really hard, with lots of complex software," Murta explained to TechCrunch. "So, the entire idea was to redesign from scratch how this whole process works, and make it simple and out of your smartphone, really. The idea was that we unlock musical expression to a different level, so that it gets simple to collaborate and co-create music."

With Indaband, users find out songs and jam sessions with curated playlists that explore rock, jazz, hip-hop, and many other genres daily. Users can love and comment on videos and repost to their followers.

Indaband plans to launch a feature it is referring to as "Circles," which Murta claimed is similar to Strava's clubs. Circles would allow users to create their own communities on the app and potentially even host live events. The company may also produce a Patreon-like functionality inside of Circles where known creators can provide paid content. For instance, a recognized musician might give virtual lessons teaching an instrument they are perfected at.

While Indaband's early adopters are professional musicians and feel comfortable sharing their own music and recording themselves, Indaband will target those kinds of early entrants who are amateur musicians and singers.

"We want to be known as a place where the musical community flourishes," Murta said. "There is no place for musical communities right now. So the idea is to be known for that, and our strategy is to make it easy to create, and allow everyone to join the creation process."

Indaband recently closed a seed funding round of $7 million in November 2021. The round included a few angel investors like Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger and former Megadeth guitarist Kiko Loureiro. Funding was also taken from several Latin American VC firms such as Monashees, Astella, and Upload Ventures.
The app is free, available for iOS and Android.