KROSSWINDZ are a world music band from Calcutta India.Krosswindz is just back from a hugely successful 42 day concert tour of USA in September and October of 2009,the band played 11 gigs over 9 cities-New York,San Fransisco,Dallas,Austin City,San...
KROSSWINDZ are a world music band from Calcutta India.Krosswindz is just back from a hugely successful 42 day concert tour of USA in September and October of 2009,the band played 11 gigs over 9 cities-New York,San Fransisco,Dallas,Austin City,San Diego,Tampa,Sacramento,Boston and Delaware.The Grammy winning Guitar Legend Eric Johnson was guest of honor at the Austin City tour and a Krosswindz tour featuring Eric as co-headliner is planned for 2010. Krosswindz toured 6 cities in the US in October 2007- Los Angeles,San Fransisco,Seattle,Atlanta,Chicago and Jersey City.Kroswindz played 7 concerts and one Live Radio Broadcast 2 hour unplugged concert for Sandusky Radio Seattle-Kevin Mc Donald Presents.Krosswindz have been nominated in 2 categories in the JPF Awards 2009(The Grassroot Grammys) being held in NASHVILLE TN USA along with co-nominees A R Rahman and Illayaraja,Krosswindz have been nominated for Best Indian Song and Best Indian Album.The ceremony is kicking off in BB King's pub Nashville with a performance and Krosswindz have been invited to perform at both their events the 2nd event -the main ceremony is at The Wild Horse Saloon Concert Hall in Nashville on 29th August.Primarily a Classic Rock/folk-fusion band,focusing on world music with soulful songs,lyric oriented.Professionally performing concerts all over the world for the last seventeen years. Krosswindz is the music of Bengal and India with a blend of folk music traditions from around the world.The result- a potpouri of sounds deeply rooted in the soil that touches the heart and speaks the common language of humankind.Music Style-world/Rock,folk,ambient environmental fusionMusical Influences John Mc Laughlin,Santana,Eric Johnson(AUSTIN TEXAS),Jimi Hendrix,Pink Floyd,The Beatles.Miles Davis,Indian Musical influences-Padmashree Protima Barua Pandey(Goalpariya-Assamese Folk Exponent and singer),Rabindranath Tagore,Kishori Amonkar,Bhupen Hazarika,Purno Das Baul,Shubha Mudgal,Abida Parveen,Runa Laila,SD Burman,Abbasuddin Ahmed,Lalon fokir, etc.Similar Artists-Yossou n Dour,Sting,Cranberries,Joni Mitchell,Jimi HendrixArtist History -The band was formed in 1990,has toured all over the sub-continent and 6 cities in the USA playing at major festivals,concerts and clubs and has officially released 12 albums.Two of the most famous Bangla songs of Krosswindz are "Prithibita Naki Choto Hote hote" written by Gautam Chatterjee performed by Krosswindz in the album Abar Bocchor Kuri porey and "Jhiko Jhiko"-from the album Jhiko Jhiko Krosswindz.Krosswindz is renowned for the musical dexterity and virtuoso skill of legendary guitar player Vikramjit Banerjee(tuki)and the unique and mellifluous vocals and gayaki of Chandrani.The band is busy performing all over the world along with recording new material for their forthcoming album.KROSSWINDZ is an accredited and empaneled band with the ICCR(INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS NEW DELHI)and are officially enlisted as a premier band ofINDIA and they call us when they need us to represent INDIA in festivals abroad.The band has performed and collaborated with internationally reputed names like HERBIEHANCOCK(USA),SKY HIGH(SWEDEN),RAG FOUNDATION(ENGLAND WALES),TIZIAN JOST(GERMANY),PANDIT RAMESH MISHRA(INDIAN SARENGI PLAYER OF INTERNATIONAL REPUTE),SANJAY MISHRA(CLASSICAL GUITARIST USA),THE JAZZ AMBASSADORS(USA),DAVID DYKSTRA(THE BAUTISA BAND SAN-FRANSISCO),Fred Hamilton Jazz guitarist USA.The album TRIBUTE TO ERIC JOHNSON USA(GRAMMY winning guitarist from Austin Texas)features the dazzling guitar work by Tuki(KROSSWINDZ) on the track SPACE GUITAR.Available in USA and at the Val Serrie productions site.The album THE MUSIC OF THE GLOBE features two tracks by KROSSWINDZ namely ONE WORLD and MAHUT BONDHU which was re-released in USA by independant Washington based label JOE ANTHONY PRODUCTIONS,this album has gone onto become a hot seller from amazon , itunes and other online merchants apart from being popular at conventional music stores like TOWER.Krosswindz has been a pioneer in the band movement in West Bengal and the first bengali project/collaboration with GAUTAM CHATTERJEE(MONIMAMA)of MOHINER GHORAGULI yielded the anthemic hit Prithibita Naki Choto Hote Hote.Released in 1994 the album AABAR BOCHOR KURI POREY has become a staple amongst music lovers.The collaboration happened when Gautam suggested KROSSWINDZ record and perform one track he had written and set tune to in 1993 and eventually the studio sessions yielded the astonishing new bengali side of KROSSWINDZ.This song has now been remade by Bollywood in the movie GANGSTER and a hindi version is doing the rounds on all music channels.Krosswindz has evolved over the early years from being a rock band to a world/fusion band and has gained repute all over the world for its pathbreaking new sound and fresh approach to music.In the early years the band created a tremendous fan following of loyal fans who followed the band and are still avid listeners/audiences, the reputation of the band as being a stupendous live act spread and gigs picked up by the mid nineties and nowadays on an average the band has ten to twelve shows a month.The music of krosswindz has been featured in numerous documentary films and commercials.Recently the international multi-award winning film THE WAY BACKHOME by film maker SUPRIYO SEN featured the vocals of CHANDRANI(KROSSWINDZ) in the song Ghore Pherar Gaan(written by Gautam Chatterjee from the album Khyapar Gaan) prominently as the Title track and backgroundscore for the film.The music of KROSSWINDZ is being aired bymajor FM stations around the world-BBC in UK, in CALCUTTA RADIO MIRCHI,RED FM,AAMAR FM and ALL INDIA RADIO.In AUSTRALIA pbs FM in MELBOURNE is playing the song ONE WORLD by KROSSWINDZ on their show GLOBAL VILLAGE hosted by ROGER HOLDSWORTH.KROSSWINDZ has been on many major national and international TV shows and reputed production houses like the BBC and MTV have covered KROSSWINDZ on innumerable occasions.Krosswindz has acted for a feature part in the tele film called "Aamra Ebong" by noted Calcutta actor/director Parambrata Chatterjee where even the soundtrack of the film has songs from the album-MISIKI MISIKI(FOLK-FUSION)KROSSWINDZ.The song "Morihe Shyam" from this album is the title song of this tele-film.The band also appears regularly on game shows and interviews on popular Indian TV channels like zee bangla(hau mau khau),Tara Muzik-Take a break and Bandemonium,Sangeet Bangla(metro music and Shudhu Gaane Shudhu Shongeete)etc.Channel S in the UK has telecast a documentary featuring KROSSWINDZ.GAAN BEDHE DOLBAJEE on CTVN PLUS channel.KROSSWINDZ has one of the highest record sales in the regional market and has had superhit albums like ONE WORLD,JHIKO JHIKO and MISIKI MISIKI selling lakhs of units.Presently Krosswindz is signed to Indian label SAGARIKA MUSIC.KROSSWINDZ has been on the charts at broadjam.com numerous times and a huge number of people have downloaded the band's music from free sites like mp3.comONE WORLD has entered the Earth Top 10 at Broadjam!ONE WORLD has entered the Production - Mid Tempo Top10 at Broadjam!ONE WORLD has entered the Pop Top 10 at Broadjam!ONE WORLD has entered the Broadjam #1 Songs Top 10 atBroadjam!ONE WORLD has entered the Production - Female VocalsTop 10 atBroadjam!Krosswindz's rendition of the song TANGRA TOBU KATON JAYE from the album JHIKO JHIKO was been nominated by an AMERICAN company called JPF(CD BABY) in the BEST FOLK SONG category of their music awards in 2006
http://www.jpfolks.com/MusicAwards/2006/SongNominees.htmlKrosswindz has one of the largest amount of fans in the Indian music scene that spread all over the sub-continent and even to other parts of the world like in the USA,UK,MEXICO,IRELAND following the band avidly and listening with admiration.Tower records,cdbaby and apple i tunes also stock a healthy quota ofthe music of KROSSWINDZ and the number of fans is growing each day.Group Members -Vikramjit(tuki)lead guitar,dotara,khamak backingvocals/songwriter producer Chandrani-lead vocals/songwriter,percussion Ratanjit-keyboards/guitar Rajiv-rhyhm guitar Osi-bass Jeff-drums Guest musicians perform with the band from time to time keeping the sonic spectrum diverse and eclectic.Instruments guitar,nylon string guitar,mandolin,dotara,dhol,djembe,khol,drums,congas,timbales,cabasa,guiros,triangles,shakers,bass guitar,keyboards, Albums(discography)krosswindz singles- bmg crescendo india,1994 krosswindz poth geche benke-sagarika,1996 krosswindz one world-kosmic music,2002krosswindz bhebe dekhecho ki-kosmic music,2002krosswindz jhiko jhiko-sagaika,2004krosswindz misiki misiki-sagarika,2005KROSSWINDZ DHOWA-Sagarika,2006Compilation albums- aabar bochor kooree porey mohiner ghoraguli,1994khyapar gaan mohiner ghoraguli,1999moni chara shunno laagey various artists,2002THE MUSIC OF THE GLOBE-JOE ANTHONY PRODUCTIONS(USA),2003Tribute to Eric Johnson various artists, produced-VALSERRIE TEXAS USA,2004GIR-VOL1 andGIR VOL2 RSJ Records DelhiSmokin guns-RSJ RECORDS DelhiPress Reviews-Krosswindz rings in new year 2007 with 20,000 strong audience in shillong-The Telegraph,krosswindz goes global on world music ship,-the Telegraph.Krosswindz song Jhiko Jhiko being played down under in Australian FM-The Times Of India.Prithibi goes to Bollywood-Hindustan times"the first band from the eastern region of india to come out with an album of original English compositions"-The Telegraph Calcutta"one world tops local charts"times of india calcutta "The evening of January 16 was electrifying, with JUST, a band formed by JU students, belting outpopular numbers. But it was Krosswindz, playing to the galleries of over 4,000, that was a smash hit with a two-and-a-half-hour gig."the Telegraph Calcutta Winds of cross culture-Krosswindz has absorbed jazz,Irish folk, hip-hop, funk and Indian music to create astyle of their own which they call 'World Rock'. A few copies of their recent release One World are available in big music stores in Bangalore, writes Michael Patrao"I don't want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely aspossible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any." These words of Mahatma Gandhi (said in a different context) may well be the description of the Kolkata band Krosswindz.The album "ONE WORLD" is doing very well in Kolkata and a few copies did manage to land in Bangalore. Priced at Rs 125 a CD you may find it in one of the bigger music stores in Bangalore.-DECCAN HERALD Additional Info email the band at--
tukiguitarman@yahoo.com,
tukiguitarman@gmail.comwww.krosswindz.comwww.cdbaby.com/krosswindzwww.soundclick.com/krosswindzLocation calcutta, west bengal - Indiacontact-vikramjit banerjee flat 1b kanak apartments,174/10 nsc bose road,calcutta 700040.India