Asheem Chakravarty

Indian Ocean, the legendary band, is now ready to release its new album “16/330 Khajoor Road” comprising seven songs on July 25. The band plans to present all seven songs of the album on their website www.indianoceanmusic.com enabling free downloading in mp3 format with one song a month over the next seven months. Listeners will have to just log on to the website, register, and will get an e-mailed code that shall let them download the song.

The album is named after their jam-pad in Delhi’s Karol Bagh, 16/330 Khajoor Road, where the band has rehearsed and composed since 1997, producing Kandisa, Jhini and Black Friday. Before partition, Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz also used to live in the same house. The new album is a tribute to the almost spiritual energy of the house that has allowed the band to grow unfettered. The album also comprises almost all the last few songs in which the band’s former percussionist and vocalist, Asheem Chakravarty, participated in composing, performing and recording. Asheem passed away on December 25, 2009, but the plan to release the album had been formulated with his full knowledge and consent last summer. So, in away, the album is a tribute to him.

The songs are vintage Indian Ocean, with a few surprises thrown in. The classic line-up of the band comprising Susmit Sen, Asheem Chakravarty, Rahul Ram and Amit Kilam has produced songs ranging in mood from the contemplative to the inspirational to the political. The band is planning to tour all over the country with the album over the next few months.

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