Ace percussionist Bickram Ghosh has always scored high on fusion barometers by collaborating with top notch artists like Pete Lockett and Yosy Levy, besides being a constant fixture at Pandit Ravi Shankar concerts. However, he has always remained slightly distant from Bollywood, choosing only selective projects. After composing for films like Sooni Taraporewala’s Little Zizou, Ghosh has recently composed the music for Gumshuda , a film directed by multiple national award-winning director Ashok Vishwanathan that released last week and which stars heavyweights like Rajat Kapoor, Victor Banerjee and Raj Zutshi. Even though the film hasn’t managed to create an impact, Ghosh says he is happy with the way the music has shaped up. “The film will be travelling the festival circuit as it is more in the genre of parallel cinema and wasn’t really meant for the multiplex audience. But the music is extremely quirky, unlike anything I have done before. The tracks are a combination of blues, rock and qawwali,” says Ghosh, adding that it took him over a year to compose the background score and the six tracks.
Currently he is working on a project with Sonu Niigaam on a world music album in which he has collaborated with the US-based popular percussionist Greg Ellis, who has worked in projects like The Matrix Reloaded and Fight Club among 75 Hollywood films.
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