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Somya Lakhani Tags : talk, delhi Posted: Tue Jul 13 2010, 03:07 hrs
After a four-year-long hiatus, Indie-rock band Bandish is back with their second music album titled Bandish (Universal Music, Rs. 150) , which promises an amalgamation of various musical flavours like rock, sufi and folk. “The second album was ready almost two years ago but a few glitches in the line-up of the band led to the delay. Finally we roped in Deepak (Nair) on the vocals and the songs had to be recorded again,” says Chris Powell, drummer, composer and founder of Bandish. Incidentally, Powell, who formerly played with another popular Indie-pop band, Euphoria, left it in 2004 for “personal and professional reasons” to form Bandish in 2006. Their debut album Kaise Kahoon did extremely well with tracks like Goonj and Tum hi tum topping popularity charts.
For their latest album, which will be available at music stores around the country in a week’s time, Bandish has collaborated with English percussionist Pete Lockett, playback singers KK and Krishna Beura of Maula mere from Chak de India fame. “Lockett features in the title track, also called Bandish. Apart from being one of the best percussionists in the world, he has also done the hindustani classical bols in the track,” says Powell, adding that the music video of the title track will hit TV screens in two days’ time. Popular singer KK who is usually known for his slow and romantic numbers, features in a rock number in the album. In Dubai for an event, Krishna Beura too sounds excited about the album, “I have sung two songs— Mahi ,which is a sufi song with a folk tinge and Khuda Baksh, which is a sufi-rock rendition. Both are quite unique,” he says. The album also features their high energy cover of Dama Dam mast kalandar which the band plays in almost all their concerts.
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