Leaving Home: The Life and Music of Indian Ocean @ IFFLA
Friday, April 24th The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles will screen Jaideep Varma’s documentary on Indian Ocean.
If you aren’t already a fan of the band, this blurb from the Leaving Home Web site will leave you wanting to know more about this amazing group:
Based in Delhi, the band has been in existence for 16 years. It has created less than 30 songs during this time, with not a filler amidst them. Every single one of them refuses to age and more than half those are bona fide classics.
They conform to no music industry norms. Their songs (and instrumental pieces) have an average length of more than eight minutes (some go beyond ten), and none of them are love songs in the conventional sense. They sing in many different Indian languages, sometimes in dialects not easily understood; their most famous song is in the ancient language of Aramaic.
And yet, with their acoustic guitar-bass-tabla-drums-vocals format, their fluid jazzy vibe and rock intensity, they sound more urgently contemporary than most music does anywhere in the world. The strong influence of Indian Classical and the time-honoured earthiness of folk root their music more than most contemporary music anywhere in the world. All resulting in an absolutely unique sound, but accessible to anyone, anywhere.
From the IFFLA Web site:
Director Jaideep Varma delves beyond the stage personas of the musicians, retracing the journey of Indian Ocean from its inception, through personnel changes and the creative evolution that forms the unified sound and chemistry that make the band a true original. By stepping back and letting the band do what they do best – make music -Varma captures their unique energy and sound. Through concert performances and intimate improvisations, viewers gain a fresh perspective into the creative process and personal struggles of the band’s members. LEAVING HOME acts as a biography and aural soundscape that is certain to garner the band new followers while also satisfying their established fans.
LEAVING HOME: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF INDIAN OCEAN (Documentary)
Friday, April 24th, 2009, 7:00 PM
ArcLight Hollywood
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
I would love to watch it.Calling Jaideep!
should be awesome…
interesting!!
I heard Indian Ocean in my colege festival and then become regular listener of their soul enchanting music. have compiled all the prominent articles about Indian Ocean Music Band available on my blog.If you are fan of there music like me ,take a look.
http://yayaver.blogspot.com/2008/12/indian-ocean-music-band.html
Go Jaideep! Go Indian Ocean!
Yeah!! Gonna watch this..will see you there jaideep
On my way right now!
review????