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St Mark's Square - Venice carnival,
Bridgewater Hall - Manchester,
Thames Festival,
WOMAD, UK
Festival de la Merce - Barcelona,
Sziget Festival - Budapest,
London Mela, Roskilde Festival - Denmark,
Kaustinen Festival - Finland,
Rudolstadt festival - Germany,
Tulip festival - Canada,
Druga Godba festival -Slovenia,
Ignite! - Olympic Stadium, Sydney
'Rahmania'
'Sound track to the summer………'
fRoots, June 2002
The Bollywood Brass Band have chosen to release their second album at just the right time. Bollywood movies are breaking into the mainstream, The Sunday supplements tell us we're having an ''Indian summer'' and Andrew Lloyd Webber is producing a new show with music by Bollywood soundtrack king A.R. Rahman. So if you're going to put out an album featuring brass band arrangements of some of Rahman's best know tunes (which is what we have here), you may as well do it now. Particularly if, like the Bollywoods, you were playing this stuff long before it became fashionable. And it all sounds great, as fresh and ballsy as the first BBB album, but with more imaginative arrangements (listen to Ishq Bina or Ramta Jogi for proof of this. Guests include Dhol Foundation founder Johnny Kalsi and Karim Delali of Fantazia. The whole thing's bursting with energy and style, and to round it all off there are a quartet of remixes from people like Transglobal Underground and Kamel Nitrate. Sound track to the summer (Indian or otherwise).
Jamie Renton