Formed in 1998 by the dynamic duo of poet, singer & Bengali-rooted Rosina Kazi, producer, sound designer, philosopher, aphorismist and Barbados-born king of chill, Murr, then joined later by bassist Uganda-born Ian de Souza, LAL always proved hard to describe. They’re a band, but not only a band they’re a music making magical mushroom, the visible flowering part of a much larger organism.

LAL have opened for Terry Callier at the Jazz Cafe (London), Digable Planets, Tricky, Saul Williams, State of Bengal, and Nelly Furtado in Canada.

Discography:
LAL – 2011
Deportation – 2008
Warm Belly, High Power – 2004
Corners – 2000

Find the band at http://lalforest.com/

This is a limited capacity event through invitations only. Please get in touch with Varun (9830046963) or Nishit (9830732570) as soon as you can because invites will run out. You may fill up the form at the bottom of this page to request invites (one per submission).

All people entering the LAL event can use the same invitation card to enter the Alter Space Launch at the Stadel the same night! This monster Dubstep/Psy event features artists Klude (UK), BBC (India), XP-Voodoo (Russia) and Fog (Italy)

Mark your calenders, clear your schedules because this Saturday the 21st promises to be the biggest & one of the most kaleidoscopic events Kolkata has ever witnessed.

Venue info:
The Stadel (Salt Lake Stadium)
Map: http://www.thestadel.com/images/location.gif
Timing: 6:30 PM onwards

Since 2009 the SPARK PARK STREET CARNIVAL has been setting the Kolkata’s entertainment street alight with a multitude of colours, rhythms and flavors. As a Heritage and Climate conscious event, the Festival is organized by the non-profit organization Society for Park Street Rejuvenation – Kolkata supported by the Department of Tourism, Government of West Bengal. Using the theme of ‘Heritage and Climate‘ as the unifying concept, the Festival celebrates Kolkata’s cultural diversity through dance, music, cultural demonstrations and cuisine.

http://parkstreetkolkata.com/

The SPARK Park Street Carnival – Band Fest

The Band Fest is a Live Band competition to be held on the open air stage at Allen Park from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM on Christmas Day.

The performing bands are:

STRANGERS
SADHO
SNAP DRAGON
KANVAS BAND
CREMATORY ART
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS
ANUBIS
THE MIND
MIND ERAS[H]ER
THE SOHAM & AFTERSPLEEN
INTOXICATE
K-KREW
PURPLE ASPARAGUS

VENUE: ALLEN PARK ON PARK ST. (Opp Yo China / Paragon)

Anjali Mental Health Rights Organisation
Presents

SOUL SUFIANA

6:30 PM onwards on Friday 16th December 2011 at Mohar Kunj, Kolkata.

with

“BAHOK”

BAHOK is comprised of Anusheh Anadil’s unique musical associations. These musicians from around the world will perform Anusheh’s own compositions, as well as baul songs by Lalon Shai and other mystic poets. Bahok’s performances tap into the ecstatic joy of questioning one’s life and searching for truth through music.

Featuring Artists:

Anusheh Anadil – Voice
Seth Panduranga Blumberg – Electric Guitar
Mainak Bumpy Nag Chowdhury – Bass
Bodhisattwa Ghosh – Guitars
Ratul Shankar – Percussions
Nozrul Islam – Dhol
Jesse Charnow – Drums

Anusheh

Anusheh Anadil is an iconoclast and role model par excellence. She is the lead vocalist of Bangla, one of Bangladesh’s leading bands. Anusheh’s deep vocals have made her a favourite of many leading musicians across the globe. She has collaborated with legends such as Swedish bassist Jonas Hellborg, featured in Susheela Raman’s Music for Crocodiles, recorded a song for Abhik Mukhopadhay’s film Bhoomi with the band Indian Ocean (pioneers of the fusion rock genre in India), and worked with percussionist Pandit Tanmoy Bose on the project, Baul and Beyond. She won The Musical Journalist’s Award in 2006 by Bangladesh Music Journalists Association and in 2007, she was conferred the Annanya Sreshtho 10 Nari (Top 10 women of Bangladesh) for raising her voice against religious intolerance through music. She was also selected as one of the two recipients of the first Meeto Memorial Award for Young South Asians (2009), which honours those whose work demonstrates a commitment to communal harmony, peace, justice, and human rights. Link TV (a non-commercial American satellite television network providing “diverse perspectives on world and national issues”) celebrated new voices of musicians and artistes from the Muslim world by making documentaries on young creative people, Anusheh being one of them

http://www.myspace.com/anushehanadil

Seth Panduranga Blumberg

Seth Panduranga Blumberg, the “God of Jazz Blues”, felt the tug of music and its intricate linkage to the path of spirituality when he met Ike Turner (referred to as a ‘great innovator’ of Rock and Roll) and Ravi Shankar. Inspired by the mystical music of Sufi, he now spends most of his time in South Asia. More recently, he has been working in Kolkata with tabla maestro Tanmoy Bose, and the path breaking new band, Kendraka.

For Anadil and Blumberg, music is one route to going beyond differences and reconnecting on a pure level with humanity. Anadil’s grandmother has been a leading advocate of mental health and human rights in Bangladesh, and for Blumberg, music has the inherent ability to heal. Both care deeply about social change issues, which is why they have agreed to come together to contribute to Anjali’s mammoth task of spearheading a change in how mental health and human rights is viewed and dealt with in the country.

Jesse Charnow

Jesse Charnow is a drummer and percussionist. He has studied and played with Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the California Symphony Orchestra and Rock legend Ike Turner. His performances cover a broad spectrum of music, including, classical symphonic works, jazz, world fusion, blues, funk and rock.

Mainak Bumpy Nag Chowdhury

Mainak Bumpy Nag Chowdhury plays the Bass. He is an integral member of Pandit Tanmoy Bose’s band TaalTantra. He has played and recorded with Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya, Pandit Chitresh Das and many other Indian classical luminaries. His own band, Kendraka is a unique blend of his diverse musical background, which includes latin jazz, indian classical and progressive rock.

Nozrul Islam

Nozrul Islam is one of the most popular dhol players of Bangladesh. His famous quote when asked about his feeling about playing at a concert in Germany with 1 million ‘Once I have my Dhol and start playing it, I don’t ever feel like I have left my country’. He has played with Baul legends like Shah Abdul Karim, Kangalini Sufia etc and travelled extensively across the globe with his band Bangla and with other musicians.

Ratul Shankar

Born in the Shankar family on July 30, 1979. Ratul was exposed to the various forms of Performing Arts at a very tender age. He has been touring with his illustrious parents Mamata Shankar and Chandrodoy Ghosh from the age of 2 years.
Trained under Sri. Tanmoy Bose, Ratul also has had the honour of performing in his World Music Project “TAAL TANTRA” and has been performing with the project for the last 6 years. He has also been a feature of various other World Music projects.
But Music has always been his first love and shall always be, as he always says, his greatest influence has been his uncle Ananda Shankar. While performing with “TAAL TANTRA” and other various projects, Ratul has had the Privilege to perform with the Maestros namely Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ustad Taufique Quereshi, Selvaganesh, Pt. Tejendra Narayan Mazumdar, Pt. Bickram Ghosh, Pete Lockett, Tilmann Dienhart, Niladri Kumar, Carl Peters, Ranajit Sengupta, Wolfgang Netzer, Anusheh Anadil and Soweto Kinch.

THE HOST ORGANISATION

Anjali Mental Health Rights Organization was established in 2001 in Kolkata with the aim of large-scale systemic change in the mental health field that will secure mental health rights to citizens. It does this by:

• Making mental health institutions and systems inclusive.
• Building community ecosystems for mental health care and wellbeing.
• Securing progressive mental health laws, policy, and ensuring practice.
•  Ending the stigma, violation, and discrimination associated with mental health.

http://www.anjalimentalhealth.org/

The Event Partners:

Smoke Incorporated
Littlei

www.smokeinc.in
www.littlei.in

H.E. Mr.Jean-Louis Rysto, Consul General of France
and the Alliance française du Bengale
present

Slow Joe and the Ginger Accident

Live at the Dalhousie Institute
on Wednesday 7th December, 2011 at 8:30pm.

Slow Joe and the Ginger Accident is the encounter of an old street singer known by the Times of India as “Cinderella Man” and a soul-blues quartet of young French musicians.

Joe, 68, comes from an island off the coast of Goa, India. He lives and sleeps with the sun, taking life as it comes. People call him Slow Joe. Everyday, Slow Joe sings improvised or written songs of his own. In July 2007, fate has it that he meets paths with Cédric de la Chapelle, a young French musician. Cédric is instantly charmed by the genuine blues of Slow Joe’s voice and has him do some a cappella recordings. Back in France, he forms the soul-blues quartet The Ginger Accident with his friends, in order to write the music stemming from Slow Joe’s voice.

In 2009 Slow Joe & the Ginger Accident meet for the first time in life and on stage, at the Transmusicales Festival in Rennes, where they are unanimously dubbed the revelation of the prized French festival by media like Le Monde, Times of India, Libération, ARTE, France 24,…

Slow Joe, charmed his french audience in March 2010 during two sold-out gigs (Epicerie Moderne/Lyon and Café de la Danse/Paris).

Event co-produced by Littlei.
All are welcome with the invitation card till the venue is full.
Invites can be picked up at:

Alliance Française du Bengale
“Khaleel Munzil”, 217, A.J.C. Bose Road
KOLKATA 700 017 / India
TEL + 91-33-2281 5198/5538/ 2283 0769
Club reserves right to admission in the venue. Dress code: Smart Casual.

Directions to Venue:

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CDR is a burntprogress project, the bedrock for aspiring and established producers to submit their current works in progress which are then play-listed and heard on a great sound system on that same night. An opportunity for like-minded artists to meet and exchange feedback/ideas and tracks, in turn assisting the development of electronic artists and producers in India.

Having started in London’s premier nigthclub Plastic People, being the weekly soundtrack to London’s empire of upcoming musicians, CDR is now looking to develop a tribe of producers in each city who aspire to make a career out of producing original music.

“We aim to inspire enough people to do this by being catalysts for such a movement.” – Tony Nwachukwu, CDR Founder

Through a cultural initiative supported by the British Council, CDR will later this year host workshops and events in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata, introducing the concept of hearing music during the construction stage, rather than the final product.

“India is a Bollywood dominated market. Teenagers and youth across the country aspiring to do anything non-mainstream find themselves with limited access to resources/avenues that will give them the exposure they deserve. Within this niche, electronic music acts find themselves cornered even further between an arts, culture and Indie music scene.”

Workshops from seasoned professionals and promising UK talent nurtured through the UK CDR scene will feature workflow production presentations and recording tutorial sessions using live session musicians and established vocalists from the scene.

Material (stems) from the recordings made during these sessions will also be made available to members of the CDR community in India and the UK as a source of sampling and further manipulation. These reworks will contribute to the building of a music catalogue celebrating this project.

The best material submitted during the CDR events in India will be released on a CDR India compilation that will be available digitally through iTunes. The submitted material will also be spread through the online CDR community to the UK and beyond. Podcasts and film documentation will also be produced during the project.

Anyone keen on listening to new electronic music can participate:

Producers are invited to arrive on the night with a current work in progress burned to a CD or uploaded to their dedicated Soundcloud Dropbox. Tracks submitted should include the following information:

Artist Name
Track Number
Track Title
URL (facebook / twitter / soundcloud)

All submitted tracks are kept for CDR archival purposes and may be played at additional sessions and online platforms.

Event Info:

FREE WORKSHOP
Kolkata / Twist N Turn Studios
Studio Address – 15B Earle Street
Nirmalya Apartment, Kolkata 700026
Near Maddox Square
REGISTRATIONS: nishit@smokeinc.in

Congo Square and DI present the 8th annual JazzFest on 25th, 26th and 27th November 2011.

Venue:
Dalhousie Institute
42 Jhowtolla Road
Kolkata 70019
India

Friday 25th November

Los Amigos – Latin Jazz

Monojit Datta (India) – Congas
Pradyumna Singh Manot (India) – Piano
Premjit Dutta (India) – Timbales
Sarthok Chakraborty (India) – Bass

Warren Walker Trio – Acoustic Bebop

Warren Walker (USA) – Saxophone
Mario Carrillo (Spain) – Bass
Tarun Balani (India) – Drums

Saturday 26th November

Izaline Calister and her trio – Latin, Jazz, Caribbean

Izaline Calister (Curacao/Netherlands) – Vocals
Yelman Aponte (Venezuela) – Bass
Enrique Firpi (Italy) – Drums
Marc Bischoff (Netherlands) – Piano

Prasanna and Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music Faculty in Concert

Prasanna (India) – Guitars/Vocals
Lara Bello (Spain) – Vocals
Derek Nievergelt (USA) – Bass
Dafnis Prieto (Cuba) – Drums

Sunday 27th November

Bujazzo with the Karanataka College of Percussion

Bujazzo Big Band (Germany)
Ramamani – Vocals
T.A.S. Mani – Mridangam
Ramesh Shotham – Thavil

Tickets:

Day Pass: Rs. 200/-
3 Day Pass: Rs. 500/-
Discounted day pass at Rs 100/- for students with valid ID cards at the gate during the festival

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DALHOUSIE INSTITUTE FROM 11AM – 6PM WEDNESDAY ONWARDS.

Infolines:

+91 9831717876
+91 9830296942
+91 9830046963
+33 22870872
or email: congosq.musicsociety@gmail.com

Directions to Venue:

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Eristoff presents Ankytrixx and Contra Frequency at Tantra, Kolkata as part of Bacardi NH7 Weekender!

The Eristoff Wolves Den sees performances by some of the most cutting-edge electronica-driven artists from across the world.

Catch Ankytrixx and Contra Frequency at our pre-party as part of Bacardi NH7 Weekender!

Ankytrixx

He is a voyager of deep emotive cutting edge Progression that has catapulted him to the halls of dance & fame, forever!

Get Ready for… DJ ANKYTRIXX!! The super highway of electronic dance music is awash with the constant hybrid sounds full of bounce and sassy grid locks of musical mayhem brought to clubbers by the primal energetic bundle, no one can ignore. Nearing a decade Ankit has fast forwarded himself into one of the most contemporary and exciting acts in these modern times. DJ Ankytrixx represents the musical cosmos at the highest level! Disco goers delight, converting smiling crowds to get blissfully lost in speedy, jump at you performances with melodic goodness amplified in extravagant, chunky bass lines – his forte.The new age Clubbers of electronic dance music bend, defy gravity when he takes hold of his console to scorch floors with mind numbing cosmic shifts of Progressive – Tech House and Psychedelic pressured grooves.

Currently, Ankytrixx is enjoying super star status as the chosen beat freak to play out at swanky clubs such as Powerhouse, Tantra, China House, Aurus, Pebbles, Fuga, Stonewater Grill, Love Hotel, 1 Lounge, Sky Bar & Blue Frog to name a few. In recent times Ankit has shared stage space with Legends such as Astral Projection, PVD, Ferry Corsten, Yahel, Skazi, Azax Syndrom, 1200 Mics, Protoculture, Neuromotor, Dave Seaman, John Fleming, Umek, Satoshi Tomie, Ace Ventura, Liquid Soul, Madmaxx & many more.Ankit has also head-lined at the Sub-Continents Major EDM Festivals like Sunburn(2010) and Mountain Madness (2009-11). Plans are full steam ahead to rattle bass bins with an international tour of Australia, Bahrain, Colombo and Europe in 2011, alongside DJ sets in India and South East Asia.

Heighten your senses to massive electronic dance music and nocturnal escapades with the trickster for who Bigger, Better, Faster is the calling.

Ankytrixx – Sunburn Goa 2010 by Ankytrixx

http://soundcloud.com/ankytrixx
http://www.myspace.com/ankytrixx

Contra Frequency

Contra-Frequency is the solo project of Nitesh Batra from Kolkata (India). His exploration with sound started with the new millenium. Influenced by Artist’s like Hux Flux, Astral Projection, Silicon Sound, Talamasca,Yahel,Chronos,Shpongle,Aes Dana,Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan name a few; Nitesh started DJing at an early age of 17,a career which exposed him to the Indian club circuit.He has played at a Numerous clubs and Outdoor Parties across the country. His connection with the music got stronger with each set and eventually led to his unique take on the genre and the creation of Contra Frequency. His production vibrates with full On soundz influenced from Goa,progressive,psybreaks & downtempo moods to create a kaleidoscopic journey that’s both melodic and kinetic.

ॐ Synthesize ## Compiled & Mixed By Contra-Frequency ## by Contra-Frequency

http://soundcloud.com/contra-frequency
http://www.myspace.com/contrafrequency

NH7 Pre-Parties conceptualized and managed by Only Much Louder and KRUNK

http://oml.in/
http://krunklive.com/

Bacardi Superior presents Bay Beat Collective and B.R.E.E.D at Roxy, Kolkata as part of Bacardi NH7 Weekender!

Bay Beat Collective (BBC)

The Mumbai-based BBC (Bay Beat Collective) formed in response to the abundance of standard-issue electronica so commonly heard in clubs and bars across the country is primarily a DJ collective consisting of Kris Correya ( DJ/ Producer/ Effects Tweaker), Sohail Arora ( Dj/Producer/Promoter) & Raffael Kably ( Sound Enginee/Gizmo Nerd ) & interesting guest acts.

BBC explores new aural territory, dabbling in styles ranging from breaks to drum n bass to glitch hop to dubstep to drumstep with a partiality to “phat” basslines, live sampling and high voltage grooves that are infectious, delicious & supremely funky. They’ve injected fun into a scene, which was mutating into an increasingly austere and po-faced arena. Their sets continually re-affirm the potency of dancing the night away in a sweaty club, surrounded by like-minded complete strangers.

Previous Gigs include Sunburn Festival 2009 & 2010 & Giant Opening Sets for The Prodigy & Pendulum @ Invasion Festival, Jan 2011. BBC have also toured & played alongside some of the biggest Electronic Producers / DJ’s like Asian Dub Foundation (U.K), Godfather of Drum N Bass LTJ Bukem / MC Conrad (U.K), DUB FX (Australia), Klute (U.K), London Elektricity (U.K) & DJ Marky (Brazil). In addition to this, BBC’s first tour of Europe in August 2010 have put them on the World Map.

The BBC are changing trends and inspiring newer players in India with regular packed alternative beat nights all over the country and are truly one of the emerging collectives of a much required alternative, intellectual order.

Don’t touch that dial.

BBC feat. MC J-Man Live @ The Hub, Leicester (U.K) by Bay Beat Collective (BBC)

http://nh7.in/baybeatcollective
http://www.facebook.com/baybeatcollective
http://krunklive.com/bbc

B.R.E.E.D

After the first track released by B.R.E.E.D landed directly in the Top Ten Beatport Dubstep Charts in 2010, the road was thereby soundly paved for this matured identity. B.R.E.E.D’s colorfully-raw avenues have become the foundations for his evolving production and musical promenade with his upcoming releases featuring heavily-layered bass lines and exquisitely original intonations.

Shortly after the Top Ten Dubstep success, B.R.E.E.D released an EP on High Chai Recordings called “Sound Killer,” of which both tracks appeared in the Beatport dubstep charts yet again! But this notable activity was induced by layers of exploration and intellectual evolution. Previously, under his initial name, DJ Nasha, this self-manufactured artist claimed the World DMC Championship (India) in 1999 and 2000, of which he appeared for the finals of in New York and London. He then capitalized on this energetic snowball of creation and consequently changed the musical horizon in his homeland of India. Recently labeled on MistaJam’s BBC Radio One Program as the “dubstep ambassador of India,” B.R.E.E.D has evolved his musical disposition from an exclusively self-trained DJ and producer from Bombay India, to an artist who has now played alongside internationally-recognized personalities like Cold Cut, Freq Nasty, Caspa, and Howie B. Without the support and infrastructure of professional musical institutes to aid his progress, this DJ and producer has sculpted a powerful magnetism among the world of experimental aficionados with his own determined hands.

Currently B.R.E.E.D’s latest 2011 releases are sure to wreck havoc for those who crave expressionistic beats and bass.

INCU-BASS – B.R.E.E.D EP MINI MIX by B.R.E.E.D

Kandit Nayaka -Nucleya -B.R.E.E.D Remix (clip) by B.R.E.E.D

http://nh7.in/breed
http://www.breedbass.com/
http://www.youtube.com/MrBreedbass

NH7 Pre-Parties conceptualized and managed by Only Much Louder and KRUNK

http://oml.in/
http://krunklive.com/

“ICONS” – a solo show of mixed-media works by Viraag Desai, will be on
display at the Taj Bengal Promenade Lounge from 26th September to 2nd
October 2011, daily between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m.

Viraag Desai was born in Kolkata in 1986, and this remained his place
of residence till he left to do his BFA at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago in 2005. After a year in L.A. he has returned to
set up studio in Kolkata, where he designs and curates, and is
actively involved in promoting the growing contemporary art scene in
India.

This exhibition entitled “Icons”, blurs the lines between abstraction
and representation, space and surface. It deals with the ideas of
consciousness, sexuality and decadence, using a variety of
unconventional media.