Though Bachchu left Souls because of his love for "rocking, powerful guitar music", his solo career was mostly pop rock, soft rock music. Since the beginning of his career, Bachchu had a fascination for blues, jazz and funk. He's love for those genres reflected on his band, LRB's music, but he wanted to do blues, jazz and funk in his solo career. By the early-1998, Bachchu founded his own studio AB Kitchen, which later became a label. Bachchu had already released two double albums with his band LRB: "LRB I" and "LRB II" in 1992 and "Amader" and "Bishmoy" in 1998. He wanted to release double albums as a solo artist. The recording sessions for his fourth album "Shomoy" and fifth album "Eka" started in the mid-1998 in his own studio. Both albums were released in early-1999 by Soundtek Electronics. Both albums wasn't well received by fans like his previous album. About this two albums Bachchu said that: