Episodes // India // Delhi Underground

About the Artists

East India Company

Founded in Delhi in 2007 by a group of musicians originally from Assam in northeast India, and electronic producer Brin, East India Company is one of the hottest young groups on the underground Indian music scene. With a blend of Assamese folk, rock, reggae and electronic music, East India Company is transporting popular Indian music headlong into the 21st Century.
www.myspace.com/eictheband

Indian Ocean

The pioneering fusion band Indian Ocean recorded their first demos in 1990. Formed by guitarist Susmit Sen and tabla player-singer Asheem Chakravarty, who were joined by bassist Rahul Ram and percussionist Amit Kilam, Indian Ocean has built a devoted fan base through their tireless devotion to bringing Indian traditional music in new and exciting directions. Since the Music Voyager segment on Indian Ocean was filmed, Asheem sadly passed away in December 2009 after complications from a heart attack.
www.indianoceanmusic.com

Rabbi

Rabbi Shergill (born Gurpreet Singh Gill, 1975) is an Indian musician whose work has been described variously as rock, Sufiana, and "semi-Sufi semi-folksy kind of music with a lot of Western arrangements." Rabbi has been inspired by rock, hard rock as well as Sufi and Punjabi folk music. His favorite musicians include Bruce Springsteen, Sahotas, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, and Jimmy Page.
www.facebook.com/pages/Rabbi-Shergill/17960263830

MIDIval Punditz & Karsh Kale

The past decade has seen the rise of the Indian electronica scene within India and no single band has had more influence on its growth than the MIDIval Punditz. Delhi based duo Gaurav Raina and Tapan Raj have been sighted as pioneers of a scene that has ushered in some of the freshest global music out of India. They frequently collaborate with percussionist Karsh Kale, a US-based musician of Indian heritage, who has transformed the Indian electronica scene. Kale's 2007 album with sitarist Anoushka Shankar (daughter of Ravi Shankar) is one of the best-selling world music albums of recent years.
www.punditz.com
www.karshkale.com