Wikipedia / Bickram Ghosh
Wikipedia / Bickram Ghosh
Bickram Ghosh is an Indian classical tabla player.
Early life
Ghosh started learning tabla from his father, Pandit Shankar Ghosh.
Career
Ghosh has performed with Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar.
Ghosh's band, Rhythmscape, which performs neo-fusion music, was founded in 2001. For its tenth anniversary, Rhythmscape collaborated with Greg Ellis to perform in Kolkata and Mumbai, an event organized by Folktronic. The band also released their second album, Transformation, which went on to win the Best Fusion Album at the Indian Recording Arts Awards 2012.
Ghosh performs within Troikala with Assamese folk/indie singer Papon and Scottish singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni. Troikala was curated and organized by British Council in association with Folktronic. He performed as part of a fusion Sufi act, "Sufusion" with vocalists Ambarish Das and Parvati Kumar, keyboardist Indrajit Dey, and drummer Arun Kumar.
Ghosh collaborated with Sonu Nigam to compose the music for the film Jal. Ghosh has scored music for the Mira Nair production, Little Zizou.
Ghosh founded his music company, Melting Pot Productions, in October 2010. On 1 October 2012, Ghosh won the 2012 Global Indian Music Academy (GIMA) Awards in the Best Pop/Rock Single category for his composition, Vande Mataram, featuring Indian artists including Sonu Nigam, Shankar Mahadevan and Sunidhi Chauhan.
In June 2012, Ghosh performed a concert "One World Fusion Extravaganza" at Shilpakala Vedika auditorium in Hyderabad to mark World Music Day.
He appeared in an episode of MTV Roots.
Personal life
He married actress Jaya Seal in 2004, and have 2 boys.
Discography
New-age experimental
Year | Album | Record label |
2001 | Drums of India: Father and Son | Biswas |
2003 | Definitive Collection- Rhythm & Zen | |
2003 | Best of Swar Utsav | Music Today |
2003 | Rhythmscape | Navras |
2007 | Pulsating Drums (with Zakir Hussain, Taufiq Qureshi) | Music Today/Living Media |
2007 | Drum Invasion | Music Today |
2007 | Beyond Rhythmscape | Sagarika Music |
2008 | Interface (with Rahul Sharma) | Thoughtify |
2008 | Folktail | Thoughtify |
2009 | The Kingdom of Rhythm (with Pete Lockett) | |
2009 | Journey with the Master Percussionists of India | Drumzine |
2009 | Decade of Great Fusion 2000-2009 | |
2009 | Electro Classical | |
2009 | White Note | Sony BMG |
2010 | Tablasphere | Veecon Music & Entertainment |
2011 | Blazing Drums | |
2011 | Talking Drums: Masters of Percussion | Music Today |
2011 | Tagore Lounge | Veecon Music & Entertainment |
2011 | Transformation | Sony Music |
2013 | Nazrulaana | Times Music |
2014 | Times Music |
Collaborations
Year | Album | Record label |
1997 | Chants of India- Ravi Shankar/ George Harrison | EMI Angel |
1997 | Nomad Christmas | Nomad/Music of the World |
2000 | Cello- Barry Phillips | |
2000 | India: Jewels of the Subcontinent | Latitudes/Music of the World |
2001/2002 | The Afro-Indian Project: Travels with the African | |
2002 | Kora So Far- Ravi (J.P. Freeman) | Terra Nova |
2002 | Axiom of Choice- Unfolding | |
2002 | Brain Washed- George Harrison | |
2008 | One- Bickram Ghosh and the Mezcal Jazz Unit | Saregama |
Classical solo
Year | Album | Record label |
1996 | Talking Tabla | |
1998 | Language of Rhythm: Drumming From North & South India | Music of the World |
2004 | Tabla Odyssey | Music Today |
2006 | Drumscape [DVD] | Saregama |
2008 | Pride of Bengal- Pandit Shankar Ghosh and Bickram Ghosh | RPG |
Classical accompaniment
Year | Album | Main Artist | Record label |
1995 | Mukundarasam: Songs of Lord Krishna | Chhanda Dhara | |
1995 | Twilight Melodies | Chhanda Dhara | |
1996 | Thumris | Ajoy Chakraborty | India Archives |
1996 | Kirvani | ||
1998 | Anoushka | EMI Angel | |
1999 | Raga Mala (Sitar Concerto No. 2) | ||
2000 | Mental Bliss | Tarun Bhattacharya | Mind of Light |
2000 | Anourag | Anoushka Shankar | EMI Angel |
2001 | Vairagya | Ajoy Chakraborty | Navras Records |
2001 | Live at Carnegie Hall | Anoushka Shankar | EMI Angel |
2001 | Full Circle: Carnegie Hall (Grammy winning title) | Ravi Shankar | EMI Angel |
2001 | Hypnotic Santoor | Tarun Bhattacharya | Biswas |
2002 | In Portrait | Ravi Shankar | Naxos |
2002 | Raga Basant Mukhari | Tarun Bhattacharya | India Archives |
2004 | Raga Rasa: That Which Colors The Mind | ||
2005 | A Spiritual Journey | Tarun Bhattacharya | Universal Music |
2005 | Rise | Anoushka Shankar | |
2006 | Raag Rageshri | Tarun Bhattacharya | |
2008 | Musical Horizon | Tarun Bhattacharya | Horizon |
2010 | Crossroads | Indya | |
2011 | The Very Best of Ravi Shankar | Ravi Shankar | EMI Classics |
Experimental accompaniment
Year | Album | Main Artist | Record label |
1992 | Songs of Nature | Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Tarun Bhattacharya, Ronu Majumdar | Original Music Impressions |
1993 | Travellers Tale | Magnasound/ OMI | |
2005 | Spirits | U. Rajesh, Pete Lockett | Living Media India/ Music Today |
2006 | Golden Krithis Vol. 3 – Beginning of the Beginning | A. Sivamani, Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma, Bickram Ghosh, Kalaimamani M.K.S. Siva, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt | Fontana India |
2008 | Monsoon Melodies | U. Rajesh | Kosmik |
Filmography
Acting credit
Year | Title | Role |
2004 | ||
2005 | Photographer | |
Choy |
Music composition credit
Bengali film | ||
Year | Title | Note |
2004 | ||
2004 | ||
2005 | ||
2008 | ||
2009 | Piyalir Password | |
2009 | Risk | |
2012 | ||
2013 | ||
2015 | ||
2015 | ||
2015 | ||
2015 | Swade Ahlade | |
2016 | ||
2016 | ||
2017 | ||
2017 | ||
2018 | ||
2018 | ||
2018 | ||
2019 | ||
2019 | ||
2019 | ||
2019 | ||
2020 | ||
2021 | ||
2022 | ||
Tirandaj Shabor | ||
Byomkesh | ||
Karna Subarner Guptodhon | ||
Iskaboner Bibi | ||
2023 | Raghu Dakat | |
Hindi film | ||
Year | Film | Note |
2009 | with Giuliano Modarelli | |
2010 | Gumshuda | |
2013 | ||
2014 | ||
2016 | Chowky | Promotional song |
2016 | ||
2016 | Band of Maharajas |
References
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