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BIG Digital, the Content and Digital Solutions arm of Reliance Broadcast Network Limited, has launched an album, Big World Cup Anthem, with Grammy award winner Bikram Ghosh. The album, comprising of eight tracks, will be released digitally. The title track of the BIG World Cup Anthem is aimed to unite India under the common desire of winning the World Cup.

Along Bikram Ghosh, the anthem feature Pakistani pop singer Nawab Shernaz, Delhi’s DJ Rishi Singh, and Pramod Tripathi, music director, singer and guitarist.


Upcoming Tours and Performance Collaborations

  • Bickrams two new acts Electro-Classical and Sunev are set to be unleashed the coming season.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 31st August- Kolkata
    Bickram Ghosh & A.Sivamani
     

  • 1st September- Hydrabad
    Classical show
    Bickram Ghosh-Tabla & Yella Venkateshwar Rao-Mridangam
     

  • 7th September -Kolkata Grand Hotel
    Bickram Ghosh's Rhythmscape
     

  • 16th September -Chennai
    Rhythmscape
     

  • 25th September -Delhi (Parliament)
    Rhythmscape
     

  • 6th October, Barrackpore
    Rhythmscape
     

  • 9th October - Nazrul Manch, Kolkata
    Bickram Ghosh & Taufiq Qureshi
     

  • 19th October-Delhi
    Drumscape
     

  • 3rd November, ITC Sonar Bangla, Kolkata
    Drumscape
     

  • 18th November-Kolkata-Nazrul Manch
    Rhythmscape
     

  • 23rd November -Kolkata, RCGC Lawn
    Rhythmscape
     

  • 24th November -  Jhankar Music Academy-Mumbai
    Rhythmscape
     

  • 26th November -Ahmdabad
    Rhythmscape
     

  • 30th November - Rhythmscape,
    Kolkata
     

  • 6th December -Kolkata
    Rhythmscape with Ranu Majumder, Pete lockett from london.
     

  • 11th December - Kolkata,EZCC
    Rhythmscape

     

Important upcoming concerts

  • Bickram and Rhythmscape play for Parliament on 25th September,New Delhi
     

  • Bickram and Rhythmscape play for UNESCO on 26th November, Ahmedabad
     

  • Bickram and Rhythmscape along with Pete Lockett and Ronu Mazumdar perform at Science City auditorium on 6th December, Kolkata


 

Tours

  • 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.
     

  • 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

  • Bickram has started composing for Sooni Tarapoorwala's "Little Zizou" starring  Boman Irani, John Abraham, kamal Sidhu and Naseeruddin Shah's son Imad.
     

  • Bickram has almost completed work on Riingo's Bengali children's film "Neel Rajar Deshe"
     

  • Bickram is all set to begin work on Raj Basu's US production "Piyali's Password"
     

  • 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

  • Drum Invasion , a drumming extravaganza,  releases in November from Music Today.
     

  • One, Bickram Ghosh and the Mezcal Jazz Unit   releases in October from Saregama
     

  • DVD -Rhythmscape live at Palais Theatre releases in October from Sony.
     

  • Sunev  with Bickram Ghosh, Pete locket, Djamel Beynelles and Jesse Bannister releases in November
     

  • 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