Seamlessly blending surf, spaghetti cinematica, disco and Indian psychedelia, The Bombay Royale is what would have happened to music had Amitabh Bachchan and Quentin Tarantino made movies together. The Bombay Royale’s debut, You Me Bullets Love, released in 2012, established the band’s credentials both as one of the most original festival acts around and as the world’s leading interpreters and of classic Indian filmi music of the 1960s and 70s. Also included is the shimmering original mix and a previously unreleased Bollywood psych funk instrumental Sleeping Giant. From Pasobionic’s jilted post-Dilla bounce to Damn Moroda’s aggressive bassrave futurism to Monkeymarc’s arpeggiated boom bap beatdown, the tempo never gets above 100 bpm but the vibe gets progressively deeper and darker. Bombay Royale launch You Me Bullets Love (Hope Street) MELBOURNE May 19th YOU ME BULLETS LOVE Album launch, HIFI BAR.
Another hit from the pen of Bengal via Richmond songsmith Shourov Bhattacharya and guitar wizard Tom Martin, Phone Baje Na is Bengali for “the phone doesn’t ring” and is a haunting tale of unrequited love.Īvailable on 12” vinyl and digital formats, Phone Baje Na features three remixes in a range of flavors. We’re a Melbourne band and its our take on it and we’re having a conversation with it and using it as a springboard to create songs and music of our own.
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.To celebrate their first Northern Hemisphere tour, a prize slot at Glastonbury festival and a year of good work, The Bombay Royale are releasing Phone Baje Na, a bass-heavy, head-nodding Bollywood hypno-hop remix EP. 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. 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. Parvyn Kaur Singh ( “The Mysterious Lady”) is the daughter of Dya Singh, a traditional shabad singer. The back story of The Bombay Royale‘s protagonists is as rich and enigmatic as their music. The bands highly anticipated third record is currently in post production and set for release in mid 2017 – watch this space! The game sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide and brought the bands music to a massive new audience. Much of this album (6 tracks) was also featured on the Ubisoft video game FarCry4, a Tarantino-esque shoot ‘em up set in the Himalayas.
Singles included “ Henna Henna” (featured in 2016 on AMC’s “Better Call Saul”,viewed by millions worldwide) and “ Wild Stallion Mountain” (pressed to pristine white vinyl and accompanied by arguably the most surreal film clip of 2015!). Their second release was the acclaimed The Island of Dr Electrico, ( HopeStreet Recordings, 2014) is a musical romp that draws from 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. In 20 the band debuted their live 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 album won universal critical acclaim, a place in iTunes Best of 2012, and #1 on the iTunes World Music charts. 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 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. The Bombay Royale are a Melbourne-based band, undisputed world-conquering originators of vintage Bollywood-inspired surf, spy, disco and funk! 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.