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Upcoming Tours and Performance
Collaborations
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Bickrams two new acts Electro-Classical and Sunev are
set to be unleashed the coming season.
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Rhythmscape is booked as far as 2009 April for a tour of
the continent. The band performs for the third time at
Queen Elizabeth Hall on 5th April 2009.
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An
exciting trio will come together for the first time.
Pete Lockett, Bickram Ghosh and Steve Smith (the famed
drummer of Vital Information) are preparing to rock
audiences worldwide with The Terrible Trio act.
Concerts
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31st
August- Kolkata
Bickram Ghosh & A.Sivamani
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1st
September- Hydrabad
Classical show
Bickram Ghosh-Tabla & Yella Venkateshwar Rao-Mridangam
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7th
September -Kolkata Grand Hotel
Bickram Ghosh's Rhythmscape
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16th September -Chennai
Rhythmscape
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25th September -Delhi (Parliament)
Rhythmscape
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6th
October, Barrackpore
Rhythmscape
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9th
October - Nazrul Manch, Kolkata
Bickram Ghosh & Taufiq Qureshi
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19th October-Delhi
Drumscape
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3rd
November, ITC Sonar Bangla, Kolkata
Drumscape
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18th November-Kolkata-Nazrul Manch
Rhythmscape
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23rd November -Kolkata, RCGC Lawn
Rhythmscape
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24th November - Jhankar Music Academy-Mumbai
Rhythmscape
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26th November -Ahmdabad
Rhythmscape
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30th November - Rhythmscape,
Kolkata
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6th
December -Kolkata
Rhythmscape with Ranu Majumder, Pete lockett from
london.
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11th December - Kolkata,EZCC
Rhythmscape
Important upcoming concerts
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Bickram and Rhythmscape
play for Parliament on 25th September,New
Delhi
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Bickram and Rhythmscape
play for UNESCO on 26th November, Ahmedabad
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Bickram and
Rhythmscape along with Pete Lockett and Ronu Mazumdar
perform at Science City auditorium on 6th
December, Kolkata
Tours
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Bickram Ghosh's
Rhythmscape has just returned from a US tour where
they performed at the Bengali Sammelan in Detroit for
a 10,000 strong audience .They also performed to a
sold-out house at New York's prime venue Joe's Pub.
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Bickram toured the UK
earlier this month to complete his "Creations" project
with Jesse Bannister, Pete Lockett and Julio
Guidiliano.The quartet also played a concert in Ascot.
Films
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Bickram has started
composing for Sooni Tarapoorwala's "Little Zizou"
starring Boman Irani, John Abraham, kamal Sidhu and
Naseeruddin Shah's son Imad.
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Bickram has almost
completed work on Riingo's Bengali children's film "Neel
Rajar Deshe"
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Bickram is all set to
begin work on Raj Basu's US production "Piyali's
Password"
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Bickram has been offered
to score for a new US –based production called Charu.
Little Zizou
English, Hindi
Director : Sooni Taraporewala
Cast : Boman Irani, John Abraham, kamal Siddhu,
Shernaz Patel, Imaduddin Shah
Music : Bickram Ghosh
The music of Little Zizou has been recorded over three
sessions in London, Kolkata and Mumbai. Bickram's
composition Rhythm Speaks from Rhythmscape serves as
the theme music of the film.
Piyalir Password Bengali
Director :Raj basu
Cast : Rituparna Sengupta, Sabyasachi
Chakraborty, Kaushik Sen
Music : Bickram Ghosh
Singers : Swagatalakhshmi, Rupankar, Rupam,
Jojo, keka Ghoshal.
The music is best described as new-age soul and the
bent is western.
Charu Hindi, English
Director : Amitabha Neil Ray
Cast : Rituparna Sengupta, Aryaman Ramsay,
Priyanshu Chatterjee
Music : Bickram Ghosh
Albums
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Drum Invasion , a
drumming extravaganza, releases in November from
Music Today.
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One, Bickram Ghosh
and the Mezcal Jazz Unit releases in October
from Saregama
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DVD -Rhythmscape live
at Palais Theatre releases in October from Sony.
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Sunev with
Bickram Ghosh, Pete locket, Djamel Beynelles and Jesse
Bannister releases in November
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A number of classical
albums are also on the anvil
Electro
Classical, Music Today
Electro classical is the stunning new album as well as
new stage act from the stable of master performer
Bickram Ghosh. After the enormous success of his
Rhythmscape, Bickram Ghosh now creates a brand new
show that promises to literally electrify audiences.
The show, while retaining the thrilling percussive
energy of Rhythmscape, brings in an added electric
element. Most of the instruments used in this show are
electrically or electronically triggered, giving the
act a fascinating new-age sound. Even while employing
classical instruments like the sitar and sarod ,
Bickram uses new-age versions of these age-old
instruments. An electric sitar/ an electric veena or
an electric sarod along with an electric guitar form
the mainstay of the melody . An optional vocal , drums
and keyboards along with ghatam and Bickram's Tabla
Kit add to the excitement.
The artists, mostly young maestros come together under
the leadership of Bickram to take new - age music into
the brand new territory of "electric-soul "as Bickram
likes to call this form.
Electro-classical is the true fusion of versatility
and a bright new sound.
Repercussion Zone, Saregama
World renowned drummer and Rhythm composer (of the
last five James Bond films and The Incredible Hulk
series) Pete Lockett and Bickram Ghosh come together
to collaborate on this high energy act of sheer
percussion.
Sunev, Saregama
Another International collaboration involving Bickram
Ghosh, Djamel Beynelles (Arabic Violin), Jesse
Banister(UK, saxophone), Guiliano Modarelli(Italy,
flamenco Guitar,and Pete Lockett. The project has been
recorded in two sessions- the first being at Henry the
eighth's hunting lodge in Essex, UK and later in
Kolkata.
Sunev, the band also performed in the UK this year to
a sold out house.
Raga Rai, Sony
Recorded over a period of two years this Indo Arabic
project between collaborators Bickram Ghosh and Djamel
Beynelles (who was Khaled's collaborator) is complete
and set for an International release.
One -2
The second collaboration between Bickram Ghosh and the
French Mezcal Jazz Unit begins in September this year.
Recent Releases :
Albums : Drum
Invasion, Pulsating Drums, One.
Films : Neel Rajar Deshe
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