“THE BOMBAY CONNECTION” CD & LP LAUNCH

20^th October 2006, Paradiso Amsterdam

 PROGRAM:

- ARLING’s BOMBAY CONNECTION SITAR BAND

 - 70s Bollywood cult film GUN MASTER G-9 in "SURAKKSHA"

- SUJATA GOEL & TAREK HALABY's “DISCO DANCER” choreography

- DJ EDO en DJ JOHANZ spin original 60s, 70s, 80s Jazz, Funk and Disco from Bollywood films

featuring crazy, colourful dance & action clips from 60s, 70s and 80s films

Very few people realize how funky, danceable and especially how limitless original Bollywood actually is. With the release of the first two volumes of the compilation series THE BOMBAY CONNECTION the doors of Bollywood’s treasure chambers are opened widely for the first time. And what first emerges is the spectacular Bollywood funk of the 1970s and the infectious, bouncing Night club music of the 1960s. Sounds so exciting that we at BOMBAY CONNECTION believe that everybody should hear them, and a good reason to organize a tour visiting several Dutch stages to present Bollywood’s most exciting sounds and visuals, kicking off the 20^th of October in Paradiso, Amsterdam. This live music performance will create a new soundtrack to the 1979 cult film GUNMASTER G-9, a funky Indian film soaked with karate fights, motorbike chases and undersea headquarters. Hilarious are the ultra cheap special effects like card buildings, toy cars on toy parachutes, a label machine a laser gun. Altogether a genuine Indian ED WOOD, but then with bell-bottom trousers, sideburns, Desi Bond girls and an insanely funky soundtrack.  

Bollywood’s boundless originality inspired the composer/arranger GERRY ARLING (of the duo ARLING & CAMERON) to stage a live performance of these sounds. The band will consist of the turntablist Kypski, Tammo Heikens - Sitar, Sathyam Sheoratan – Tablas, Jan Klug - fluit, sax & weird noises, Hans Kaldeway - keyboards & loops, Harry Arling  - drums, Gerry Arling - guitar & bass. They will be re-creating the music of Bollywood composer R.D. Burman and the legendary sounds of the sitar psych music of ANANDA SHANKAR. 

The modern dancer and choreographer SUJATA GOEL will perform the piece DISCO DANCER, a choreography made after a dance in the similar titled Bollywood movie from 1982.  Sujata Goel (India/USA) was educated in South India in the Carnatic dance tradition, and danced in the modern dance troupe of PADMINI CHETTUR. Recently she received additional dance training at the contemporary dance school of de KEERSMAEKER’s P.A.R.T.S. She will perform the piece with the dancer TAREK HALABY (Palestine/USA).

The Bombay Connection evening has been selected in the cross-over SPECIAL-FX program, and will be touring Holland in Januari 2007.