The Bombay Royale - The Island of Dr Electrico (CD/LP, Hopestreet Recordings, 2014)
Two years ago, we introduced our readers/listeners to the sound of The Bombay Royale with their first album 'You Me Bullet Love', evoking The Budos Band with tablas on acid in a Sergio Leone movie, or Quentin Tarantinow doing the soundtrack for a Bollywood movie… The Melbourne-based band is now back with a second long player, 'The Island Of Dr Electrico', an addictive new blend of 70s Indian or Hollywood soundtracks, surf guitar, strings & brass, psychedelia, tropical disco and funk. Heavily recommended non-mainstream world music!
The Bombay Royale - The Island of Dr Electrico
(LP/CD/Digital) HopeStreet Recordings HS014, 2014-07-08
Tracklisting : 01. Ankhiyan
02. Wild Stallion Mountain
03. Khubsoorat Bewafa
04. Henna Henna
05. Tere Bina
06. Hooghly Night Patrol
07. (Give Me Back My) Bunty Bunty
08. Gyara 59
09. The Bombay Twist
10. The Island Of Dr Electrico
11. Falcon's Landing
12. The River
13. Kis Taref (digital bonus track, free download here)
Links :
Buy on Juno.co.uk
The Bombay Royale : official | bandcamp | discogs | facebook | twitter | youtube
Hope Street Recordings : official | discogs | facebook | myspace | parisdjs | soundcloud | twitter | youtube
Press Release :
Melbourne-based, world-conquering originators of vintage Bollywood-inspired surf, spy, disco and funk, The Bombay Royale, make an exhilarating return with their second album, The Island of Dr Electrico (out June 2 on HopeStreet Recordings via Rocket). From their unlikely beginnings in the suburban wilds of Melbourne, The Bombay Royale have taken their unique sound to audiences throughout Europe, UK and the USA, where their performances have been met with astonishment and critical acclaim.
The Bombay Royale’s debut album You Me Bullets Love (HopeStreet Recordings, 2012) catapulted the 11-piece band (fronted by singers Parvyn Kaur Singh and Shourov Bhattacharya, and led by musical director Andy Williamson) on to the world stage. Featuring eight dazzling originals and two fascinating re-workings of long-forgotten Bollywood production numbers, You Me Bullets Love demonstrated the band's evolution from interpreters of 1960s and 1970s Bollywood soundtracks, to creators of a new and completely original music which synthesises Indian classical and folk music with Western styles such as surf, rock and disco. The album won universal critical acclaim, a place in iTunes Best of 2012, and #1 on the iTunes World Music charts. The last 12 months have seen the band debut their sound to international audiences, with tours of the US (Kennedy Centre, Global Fest), UK (Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party, Cambridge Folk Festival and WOMAD) and Europe (Fusion Festival - Germany and Sommarscen Festival - Sweden).
The backstory of The Bombay Royale's protagonists is as rich and enigmatic as their music. Parvyn Kaur Singh (“The Mysterious Lady”) is the daughter of Dya Singh, a traditional shabad singer. Bollywood dance teacher by day and a rock chick by night, Singh is a product both of Melbourne's music scene and a lifetime of performing traditional Indian music. The band's male lead, Shourov "The Tiger" Bhattacharya, is a second generation Indian-Australian musician of Bengali descent whose day job is computer genius and IT entrepreneur. Band leader Andy "The Skipper" Williamson is saxophonist to the stars, who's clocked up over 2000 shows on the Australian festival circuit with bands such as Labjacd, the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra and Diafrix as well as accumulating a record collection that's the envy of crate-diggers and a source of the band's collective inspirations.
All these adventures have led The Bombay Royale to their extraordinary new musical safari, The Island of Dr Electrico. Their triumphant second album is a varied musical landscape; at times lush and tropical, at other times an impenetrable swamp teeming with all manner of surprises. Migrating seabirds have long flown thousands of extra miles avoid Dr Electrico's blighted isle, leaving him alone to experiment with dark beats, primitive synthesizers and the raw emotion of kidnapped souls. The resulting sounds are a rich palette of classic cinema, from lonesome spaghetti to surf-rock, from psychedelia to spine-bending space disco, overlaid with the enticing voices of The Tiger and The Mysterious Lady.
The Bombay Royale have provided a tantalising first glimpse at The Island of Dr Electrico by unveiled a bold new video for lead single Henna Henna. A sweeping, exhilarating romp sung in Bengali with raunchy wild-west flourishes, Henna Henna comes with a "high concept" (pun intended) film clip, directed by Kess Broekman-Dattner (The Bamboos, Hermitude, Clare Bowditch). The mischievous video depicts The Mysterious Lady and her crack team's efforts to rid the dastardly Skipper of the key to his secret lair and rescue the Tiger, and other hijinks on a private jet somewhere above the Pacific Ocean. Henna Henna is out now on iTunes and available as an instant download, along with a bonus track, Wild Stallion Mountain, with album pre-orders.
The band has announced a Melbourne album launch party over two nights at Howler on Friday June 20 and Saturday June 21, with announcements to follow of a national album tour and a return tour to the US.
The Bombay Royale's new album The Island of Dr Electrico is out on June 2 in Australia on HopeStreet Recordings via Rocket, with international release date to follow on July 7.
The first single Henna Henna is out now on iTunes & available as an instant download with album pre-orders via iTunes and with all CD/LP pre-orders from hopest.re/drelectrico.
The Bombay Royale - The Island of Dr Electrico
(LP/CD/Digital) HopeStreet Recordings HS014, 2014-07-08
Tracklisting : 01. Ankhiyan
02. Wild Stallion Mountain
03. Khubsoorat Bewafa
04. Henna Henna
05. Tere Bina
06. Hooghly Night Patrol
07. (Give Me Back My) Bunty Bunty
08. Gyara 59
09. The Bombay Twist
10. The Island Of Dr Electrico
11. Falcon's Landing
12. The River
13. Kis Taref (digital bonus track, free download here)
Links :
Buy on Juno.co.uk
The Bombay Royale : official | bandcamp | discogs | facebook | twitter | youtube
Hope Street Recordings : official | discogs | facebook | myspace | parisdjs | soundcloud | twitter | youtube
Press Release :
Melbourne-based, world-conquering originators of vintage Bollywood-inspired surf, spy, disco and funk, The Bombay Royale, make an exhilarating return with their second album, The Island of Dr Electrico (out June 2 on HopeStreet Recordings via Rocket). From their unlikely beginnings in the suburban wilds of Melbourne, The Bombay Royale have taken their unique sound to audiences throughout Europe, UK and the USA, where their performances have been met with astonishment and critical acclaim.
The Bombay Royale’s debut album You Me Bullets Love (HopeStreet Recordings, 2012) catapulted the 11-piece band (fronted by singers Parvyn Kaur Singh and Shourov Bhattacharya, and led by musical director Andy Williamson) on to the world stage. Featuring eight dazzling originals and two fascinating re-workings of long-forgotten Bollywood production numbers, You Me Bullets Love demonstrated the band's evolution from interpreters of 1960s and 1970s Bollywood soundtracks, to creators of a new and completely original music which synthesises Indian classical and folk music with Western styles such as surf, rock and disco. The album won universal critical acclaim, a place in iTunes Best of 2012, and #1 on the iTunes World Music charts. The last 12 months have seen the band debut their sound to international audiences, with tours of the US (Kennedy Centre, Global Fest), UK (Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party, Cambridge Folk Festival and WOMAD) and Europe (Fusion Festival - Germany and Sommarscen Festival - Sweden).
The backstory of The Bombay Royale's protagonists is as rich and enigmatic as their music. Parvyn Kaur Singh (“The Mysterious Lady”) is the daughter of Dya Singh, a traditional shabad singer. Bollywood dance teacher by day and a rock chick by night, Singh is a product both of Melbourne's music scene and a lifetime of performing traditional Indian music. The band's male lead, Shourov "The Tiger" Bhattacharya, is a second generation Indian-Australian musician of Bengali descent whose day job is computer genius and IT entrepreneur. Band leader Andy "The Skipper" Williamson is saxophonist to the stars, who's clocked up over 2000 shows on the Australian festival circuit with bands such as Labjacd, the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra and Diafrix as well as accumulating a record collection that's the envy of crate-diggers and a source of the band's collective inspirations.
All these adventures have led The Bombay Royale to their extraordinary new musical safari, The Island of Dr Electrico. Their triumphant second album is a varied musical landscape; at times lush and tropical, at other times an impenetrable swamp teeming with all manner of surprises. Migrating seabirds have long flown thousands of extra miles avoid Dr Electrico's blighted isle, leaving him alone to experiment with dark beats, primitive synthesizers and the raw emotion of kidnapped souls. The resulting sounds are a rich palette of classic cinema, from lonesome spaghetti to surf-rock, from psychedelia to spine-bending space disco, overlaid with the enticing voices of The Tiger and The Mysterious Lady.
The Bombay Royale have provided a tantalising first glimpse at The Island of Dr Electrico by unveiled a bold new video for lead single Henna Henna. A sweeping, exhilarating romp sung in Bengali with raunchy wild-west flourishes, Henna Henna comes with a "high concept" (pun intended) film clip, directed by Kess Broekman-Dattner (The Bamboos, Hermitude, Clare Bowditch). The mischievous video depicts The Mysterious Lady and her crack team's efforts to rid the dastardly Skipper of the key to his secret lair and rescue the Tiger, and other hijinks on a private jet somewhere above the Pacific Ocean. Henna Henna is out now on iTunes and available as an instant download, along with a bonus track, Wild Stallion Mountain, with album pre-orders.
The band has announced a Melbourne album launch party over two nights at Howler on Friday June 20 and Saturday June 21, with announcements to follow of a national album tour and a return tour to the US.
The Bombay Royale's new album The Island of Dr Electrico is out on June 2 in Australia on HopeStreet Recordings via Rocket, with international release date to follow on July 7.
The first single Henna Henna is out now on iTunes & available as an instant download with album pre-orders via iTunes and with all CD/LP pre-orders from hopest.re/drelectrico.
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