Bickram Ghosh talks about his tribute to Tagore with a lounge album
Your world music album with Sonu Niigaam comes as a real surprise
How did the collaboration come about?
Sonubhai and I met for the first time through our mutual friend who facilitated the recording of the song “Dhoondo” for my upcoming score for the Hindi film “Gumshuda”, which Sonu sang. We kept in touch thereafter and found a connection. In a sense we were both looking to expand our horizons. We realised we both wanted to create music which was not dictated by film.
We are about 60 per cent through with the album and I think we are onto a unique sound. We have written the lyrics together. The melodies are by Sonu Nigam and I have created rhythms in cycles ranging from 3.5 beats to nine beats! Heavily experimental, the album still has a strong commercial appeal. International stars like Chaka Khan, Greg Ellis (rhythm scorer for over 70 Hollywood films including the “Matrix” trilogy etc), Lisbeth Scott (singer “Avatar”, “Iron Man” etc) and others are guests on the album.
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