Donn Bhat is a music composer, producer, songwriter and guitar player based out of Mumbai.

In the past he's written, produced and played for the bands 'Friday The13th' and 'Orange Street' both of which won the Great Indian Rock (GIR) competition in 2003 and 2005 respectively. Eventually, after an extensive tour of Europe with Orange Street, Donn produced his first solo album 'One Way Circle' in 2006 from his bedroom studio in New Delhi. The album received a great response from press and fans alike and has seen a quick appreciating reaction from reputed stalwarts within India's independent music scene.

More recently three of his album tracks got featured on the MTV series 'Bring On the Night', whilst he currently is in the recording stages of his second solo album titled 'Passenger Revelator', alongside regularly composing music for film and advertising in Mumbai. He performs live with his band Donn Bhat + Passenger Revelator.

On the one hand, Bhat's built a reputation as a solid producer, making accessible music that embraces melodrama with uplifting emotion, yet never tipping over the edge. This mix however, showcases a midnight raid on the middle ground, combining high drama with glossy production and beefy choruses. An adaptable shapeshifter – and that, with his orotund vocal sound, an instantly recognisable one.

The Wild City mix he's made just might be our favourite one ever. And since Bhat's currently on his most prolific form yet, we're excited about the timing. If you're lucky enough to be going to Ziro Festival this weekend, you'll be able to catch him perform there. Otherwise, you'll have to wait till he next performs in a city near you. We may just do something about that though.

"This is a completely original set. Two of these tunes just got done last week, the others have been produced over the last few years. Song writing appeals to me and that's what I wanted to showcase. The first track, 'Stars Align' was something Aashar and I came up with in less than ten minutes one afternoon a few months back in Delhi - it was one of those days. Ironically it has turned out to be one the longest tracks we've done in a while. All these tracks were made at home. Hope you enjoy." - Donn Bhat

For a tracklist and further info, head over here:
http://www.thewildcity.com/EN/music.xhtml/article/4598-wild-city-063-donn-bhat-passenger-revelator

Wild City #063 - Donn Bhat + Passenger Revelator

Where Are You From (Ft.Damon Karr & Shravan Sridhar)

A Carnatic classical remix of Daft Punk's Get Lucky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I).  The raga is Karnaranjani (well, approximately). 

Daft Pankajam

Laxmi Bomb EP titled II Hॐ II
Includes:
- Hey G
- Major Major
- Pari by Night
- Juhu

Pari By Night

This is a homage to composer Clint Mansell's iconic theme from Darren Aronofsky's Academy Award winning film 'Requiem for a Dream' recorded by the Kronos Quartet woven in the form of a Carnatic Tillana.

Composed by Mayookh Bhaumik
Produced by Mayookh Bhaumik and RajStar
Vocals by Ishita Chakravarty and Kinjal Chattopadhyay
Engineered by Dipankar (Jojo) Chaki and Anirban Sengupta at Dream Digital Studios Kolkata 
Strings Recorded by RajStar at Quad Studios, NYC
Mixed by RajStar at RVM Sounds, Edison, NJ
Esraj by Shubhayu Sen Majumdar
Cellos by Rubin Kodheli
Violins by Justin Smith
Morsing by Somnath Roy
Tablas by Mayookh Bhaumik
Konnakol by Mayookh Bhaumik
Programmed by Mayookh Bhaumik
Additional programming by RajStar
Mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound, NYC and RajStar at RVM Sounds, Edison, NJ

Requiem For A Dream |Homage by MAYOOKH 'Requiem For A Tillana'

An invocation song that says, "My soul honors your soul. I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides. I honor the light, love, truth, beauty & peace within you, because it is also within me. In sharing these things we are united, we are the same, we are one. Namaste. 


Namaste

Nadia (feat. Malini Awasthy)

The Storm feat Toymob and Suhail Yusuf Khan

Kalki Koechlin, Bollywood actor and slam poetess writes a heady and provocative piece titled 'Noise', that explores, celebrates, berates, rips apart and puts together that word, which forces a listen, and not a hear.

Welcome to the age of noise.  From the 'divine cacophony' of loudspeakers piercing the airwaves in the name of religion, to the soul-jarring discordance of peak hour traffic; from the unmusicality of news headlines warring for eye-balls, to the IQ numbing racket we subject our brains to on social media; noise surrounds us.  And in this most unmelodious symphony, 'we the people' are the players, the instruments and the audience, incessantly filling up our silences, with more noise.  Written in her classic crisp, rhythmic and onomatopoeic style, Kalki's powerful words are a silent plea for individuality to break its opinion shackles, and for a generation to discern between what is 'disturbance' and what is 'true voice'.  But most importantly, this poem makes us eerily aware of a very human discomfort we feel with deafening silences, which may be an alarming by-product of this era of distractions.

Kalki and Blush collaborate for the second time after 'The Printing Machine', to bring you another 'Unblushed' that is nothing less than an audio-visual experience.  And what better occasion than World Music Day to make an ode to the inherent melody of silence.

Best experienced on earphones

Noise By Kalki Koechlin ¦ Unblushed ¦ World Music Day 2017

Gaurav Raina (Midival Punditz) and Ankur Tewari (The Ghalat Family) have collaborated on a new track called ‘A Distant Rumble’.

"In his many trips to Delhi, Ankur dropped into my Village Studio one evening, armed with an acoustic guitar, and started to jam on an electronic loop I was working on. The jam lasted over six hours and out of that emerged ‘A Distant Rumble’. Its an exploration into sound textures, harmonics and hard beats."
- Gaurav Raina
Release date: Dec 26, 2011 

A Distant Rumble [feat. Ankur Tewari]

The second track on The Sound of This Nation, released in November 2013. Indian electro heaven!

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Madsan (from The Sound of This Nation album, 2013)

Donn Bhat is a Music Producer/Songwriter/Guitar player based out of Mumbai. .He performs with his band  Donn Bhat + Passenger Revelator.
Contact 9833398525.
Donnbhat@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/DonnBh

The Storm feat Toymob and Suhail Yusuf Khan

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