(India)

Direttamente dall'universo dei Bollywood film

Olli (voce)
Bhattacharya Sudeshna (sarod)
Prabhu Edouard (tablas, dholak, ganjira)
Barou Sylvain (flauti bansuri, duduk, programming)
Lanning Lefaucheur (harmonium, Fender Rhodes, tastiere)
Erman Volant (basso)
Jesse Lucas (VJ)
Jaques Yves La Fontaine (tecnico del suono)
Laurent Poulain (luci)

Size: 8 Mb - Length: 4'44"

 

Olli and the Bollywood Orchestra is the first large musical and video show, carried by a French singer around the universe of the Bollywood films, a contraction of Bombay and Hollywood, designating the very typical cinematographic industry of India.
Supported by two major French music festivals, in Carhaix (Vieilles Charrues ) and Rennes (Tombées de la Nuit), Olli and The Bollywood Orchestra was showed in front of nearly 20000 people during the summer 2004, in Brittany, Nantes, Grenoble, and Chalons. Each time the reaction of the audience was extraordinary, quite similar to the enthusiasm of the Indian people themselves for this coloured and kitsch style. Combining the romantic topics “and” “of” the great popular songs of the Indian cinema (compositions by RD. Barman and K. Anandji) with his personal, subtle and striking ones in Hindi, Olli (Ollivier Leroy) was surrounded of the best Indian instrumentalists and arranger, for a high colour show, full of images and rhythms.
Jojo (Mou Mukherjee), singer of very famous Bollywood films and Olli perform in duet on stage, as an ideal couple. They are accompanied by the Bollywood Orchestra, ten talented musicians from Calcutta: Supha Kumar Lodh, Bablu Biwas and Soham Chakraborty on percussions, Tapas Roy on rabbat, oud, mandoline, Rahul Kumar Chattopadhyay on sitar, Deb Shankar Roy and Jyoti Shankar Roy on violins, Prasenta Ghosh on bass guitar and Basu Santanu on keyboard and arrangements.
The show is also enhanced by excellent French musicians, accomplices of Olli and who support him on stage for a perfect fusion between Eastern and Western cultures: Lannig Le Faucheur on harmonium, Sylvain Barou on uilleann pipes, Indian bansuri, and programming. Last but not least, a brilliant video mix by Jesse Lucas brings the original Indian cinema classics along with modern patterns for a lively and entertaining show, just like in an Indian cinema.

 

DISCOGRAPHY

PÄNDIP Album «Parfums» (Ethnomix/ Keltia musique 1997)
SHAFALI Mini LP- (Faune Production/ Amoc 1998)
MUKTA Album «Jazz and Indian sitar»- (Warner music 1999)
PÄNDIP Mini LP (Autoproduction 1999)
PÄNDIP Mini LP (Autoproduction 2001)
LA TORDUE Single «Pétrin» - (Epic/ Sony Music 2002)
OLLI Single «Téri méri dosthi»- (Label Caravan 2002)
OLLI & THE BOLLYWOOD ORCHESTRA «Tantra»- (Label Caravan 2007)