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Bickram Ghosh - Detailed information

Classical

As a percussionist, Bickram Ghosh figures prominently amongst the best in the world. He has a number of solo recordings and over forty accompaniment albums. He has played on the album “Full Circle” with Ravi Shankar  which was awarded the grammy. For many years, he has accompanied Ravi Shankar as his prime accompanist. He has played with all the stalwarts of Indian Classical music (Amjad Ali Khan, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Ali Akbar Khan, Dr. Balamurlikrishna etc) and is widely recognized for his incredible range on the tabla.

He has played time and again at renowned auditoriums like the  Carnegie hall, NY, The Royal Albert hall, London, The Barbican Centre, London and  The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC. He is one of the very few tabla players who is equally at ease in both the Hindusthani and Carnatic music traditions.

Bickram has over 40 classical CD releases worldwide.

Prominent albums:

  • Full Circle with Pandit Ravi Shankar;label- Angel

  • Talking tabla- solo; label-Music of the world

  • A Tabla Odyssey –solo;label- Music Today

 

International Collaborations

Internationally, Bickram has performed with many great pop, Jazz and Western Classical artists. Some of the top names he has worked with are George Harrison (Bickram plays on the latter’s posthumously released  CD Brainwashed on the title track and was the lead percussionist on Harrison and Ravi Shankars platimun disc Chants of India), Yosi Levy and Ilan Salem and Mstilav Rostropovich.

Prominent Albums:

  • Brainwashed ( George Harrison)

  • Chants of India (Ravi Shankar, George Harrison)

  • Indo-jazz (Yosi levy, Ilan Salem)

  • One (Bickram Ghosh and the Mezcal Jazz Unit.(label Saregama)

  • Interface ( Bickram Ghosh , Rahul Sharma)

  • Drumscape (DVD, Saregama)

  • Drum Invasion (label Music Today)

  • Beyond Rhythmscape (label sagarika)

  • Pulsating Drums Zakir hussain, Taufiq Quereshi, Bickram Ghosh (label Music Today)

  • Blazing Drums compilation with various artists (Times Music)

  • The Afro-Indian Project with various artists

 
Fusion and World Music

One of the pioneering forces of the New-Age movement in India, Bickram Ghosh is widely acknowledged to have created a “new sound” with his maiden album Rhythmscape which was released some years back. (The band Rhythmscape is one of the most popular new-age performance outfits in the country today and performs across the globe). Thereafter he has tirelessly experimented with different sounds, be it a world music take on bangla folk (the much-acclaimed album Folktail) or the song album Samaa where he collaborated with Bollywood artists like Shankar Mahadevan , Shaan and Antara Chowdhury.

Prominent Albums:

  • Rhythmscape ; label- Sony Music

  • Samaa ; label – Music Today

  • Folktail ; label -Saregama

  • Interface ; label- Saregama

 

New Albums soon to be released :

  • Electro-Classical

  • Repercussion with Pete Lockett

  • Sunev with Pete Lockett, Djamel Beynelles, Jesse banister

  • Flamenco meets tabla Pedro Ricardo Mino (flamenco piano) and Bickram Ghosh

  • Raga-Rai, a collaboration between Indian and Arabic rai music with arabic musician Djamel Beynelles
     

Film and Television Scores

Bickram is scoring music for top notch Bollywood and Tollywood films.

Iti Srikanto , Hothat Neerar Jonnyo(received the Zee award for best music director), Shatabdir Golpo  (starring Debosree Roy), Devaki (Hindi and English  starring Perizad Zorabian and Suman Ranganathan) are some of the films Bickram has scored the music for.

He has received accolades for his score in the Television series Ekdin Protidin and Lal Trikon.

New Film scores:
Hindi:

  • Bickram has scored the music for Sooni Taraporewala’s Little Zizou starring Boman Irani, Imad Shah, John Abraham, kamal sidhu etc.

  • Bickram is working on the score for the Hindi/ English film Charu directed by Amitava Neil Ray.

Bengali:

  • Bickram has completed the score for Riingo’s Neel Rajar Deshe.The music is available in stores.

  • Bickram has scored for Raj Basu’s Piyalir Password which releases soon.

     

Actor

Bickram has acted in two bengali films, both Hothat Neerar Jonnyo (opposite Jaya Seal -they received the award for most promising on- screen couple) and Choy (opposite Rupa Ganguly and directed by Anjan Dutt) are films where he plays the male lead.
 

Videos

Bickram has appeared on a number of music videos including his hit videos Kal saari ratiyan (from his album Samaa which went into the MTV International Charts)  Allah Meherbaan (Folktail) and  Interface.

His Bengali video Neel Rajar Deshe is on air.
 

Lecturer

Bickram has worked as a lecturer of music at the reputed Viswa Bharati University (Shantiniketan) and Rabindra Bharati university (Kolkata). He has been a guest lecturer at Bennington College, New York and at the Rimon School of Music ,Tel Aviv, Israel.

 

Education

Bickram studied at LaMartiniere for Boys, Calcutta. He completed his graduation in English from St Xavier’s Colllege, Calcutta and finally his Masters in English Literature from Jadavpur university , Calcutta.