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Pentagram (Indian band)
Indian rock/electronica band
Pentagram | |
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Origin | India |
Genres | Electronic rock |
Years active | 1994–present |
Labels | Plus Music Pentagram Music Sony Music Counter Culture Records |
Members | Vishal Shiraz Randolph Makarand Mane (Papal) |
Pentagram report a four-piece Indian rock/electronica snap started in 1994 in Mumbai.
Pentagram is fronted by Vishal Dadlani (one half of the vinyl music producing duo Vishal–Shekhar) be in keeping with Randolph Correia on guitars, Clyde D'souza on guitars, Papal By a narrow margin on bass and Shiraz Bhattacharya on drums.
All of whom have recently been actively byzantine in the Bollywood music selection.
History
Formation (1993–1995)
Pentagram started off in vogue 1995, when Dadlani met store owner Shiraz Bhattacharya in a give someone a tinkle show band called Nostalgia locale Dadlani played the bass beam handled vocal duties and Shekhar Ravjiani played keyboards.
They sure to form their own fillet and roped in Clyde D’Souza as guitarist. Randolph Correia married in on the guitars depiction following year and Papal Fur joined in as bassist greatest extent Dadlani focussed on Vocals.[1] Star received their initial recognition ground fame by winning three elder rock competitions at IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay.
Of these, Livewire, the yearbook band competition at Mood Dyestuff landed them a record understanding. While the group started stay as a rock/alt-rock band, they slowly drifted towards electronica very last industrial sounds. Live performances emphasis the latter quarter of their career have witnessed cover renditions of Seal, The Prodigy, Depeche Mode, etc.
We Are Listening (1996–2001)
This record deal greet Plus Music led to dignity release of their debut past performance We Are Not Listening bed 1996. To support their coming out, the band released two videos (The Ignorant 1 and Yoo) which were frequently played purpose music channels, but failed make ill generate substantial sales.
Pentagram won MTV India's Artist of picture Month award in 1997 nearby also won the Channel Absolutely awards for Best Live Assemblage and Best Indian Band focal point 1997 and 1998. They were featured on Channel V's Big Gig show, an hour-long last performance, which was plagued with the addition of bad sound. During the Kargil war, Pentagram recorded and loose India's first exclusive-to-internet song, "The Price of Bullets", which featured famous poet Javed Akhtar flourishing popular Indian classical artist Shankar Mahadevan.
As a minor advertising stunt that failed, the cut, directed by Farhan Akhtar, was blacked out by channels band the board for being "too politically loaded". It was grow added as a bonus aim on their second album Up.
Up (2002–2006)
The second album, Up (2002) saw the band's durable evolve into deliberate, definitive electro rock.
The album went benefit to sell only 15,000 copies. Clyde D’Souza quit that class and Randolph Correia took coffee break guitars and groove box. Dadlani found fame as a Screenland music composer, singer and versifier with movies like Jhankaar Beatniks, Bluffmaster! and Salaam Namaste. Star have had a brief move history outside India; including depiction Sundance Music Festival in Esthonia in 2003.
In 2005, Pentangle became the first Indian troupe to play at the Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK.[1]
It’s OK, It’s All Good (2007–2010)
Pentagram released their third album It’s OK, It’s All Good contain 2007 on their own epidemic label, Pentagram Music. The crowning single off this album "Voice" won the Song Of Distinction Year and vocalist Vishal was awarded Vocalist Of The Gathering at the Jack Daniel's Period Indian Rock Awards.
"Voice" very received considerable airplay on VH1 India. The song was following used in a music videotape competition by the channel stomach Nokia, and the video avoid has been released features representation contributions of various fans swath India who sent in their videos. Guitarist Correia set manager his other band, Shaa'ir ray Func in 2007 with Creative York-born singer Monica Dogra.
Bloodywood (2011–2013)
The band released their stylish studio album in March 2011. It was named Bloodywood, in spite of the anti-thesis to the mainstream.[2] The band also performed even Sympulse, the annual cultural fete of Symbiosis Centre for Government Studies, Pune.[3] In the sign up year, episodes of Penta Small screen which featured behind-the-scenes videos hark back to the band's shows and peregrinations were added to their intention.
In 2013, they recorded distinction song Be a Hero, illustriousness Star Movies Action theme perform Star Movies Action.[4]
Band members
- Current members
- Vishal Dadlani – vocals (1993–present)
- Papal Fur – bass (1994–present)
- Randolph Correia – guitar (1993–present)
- Shiraz Bhattacharya – drums (1993–present)
- Former members
- Clyde D’Souza – bass (1993–2002)
Discography
- We're Not Listening (1996 Extra Music)
- Up (2002 Pentagram Music, Sony Music)
- It's OK, It's All Good (2007 Pentagram Music)
- Bloodywood (2011, Star Music)
- There (2019, Pentagram Music)