Olli & the bollywood orchestra: "Icheke Mantra" (Live visuals) from Jesse Lucas on Vimeo.
A great show
Initiated in July 2004 within the framework of the festival Vieilles Charrues de Carhaix and of Tomb..es de la Nuit de Rennes, the spectacle Olli and The Bollywood Orchestra is an invitation to travel, with the confluences of the music of India and a Western interpretation, what directs with passion its singer and Olli type-setter. It is the first large music and video show carried by a French singer around the universe of the Bollywood films, a contraction of Bombay and Hollywood, naming a movie industry very tipical of India.
Combining the romantic topics ..and.. ..of.. the great popular songs of the Indian cinema with his personal, subtle and striking ones in Hindi, Olli (Ollivier Leroy) was surrounded of the best Indian instrumentalists and arranger, for a high colour show, full of images and rhythms.
Jojo (Mou Mukherjee), singer of very famous Bollywood films and Olli perform in duet on stage, as an ideal couple. They are accompanied by the Bollywood Orchestra, a group of talented musicians from Calcutta.
For touring Olli also invites new Indian musicians of reputation such as the Sarode player, Sudeshna Battacharya, and the percussionnist (Tabla, Dholak, Ganjira) Prabhu Edouard.
The show is also enhanced by excellent French musicians, accomplices of Olli and who support him on stage for a perfect fusion between Eastern and Western cultures: Lannig Le Faucheur on harmonium, Sylvain Barou on bansuri flutes and programming, Erwan Volant on bass guitar. Last but not least, a brilliant video mix by Jesse Lucas brings the original Indian cinema classics along with modern patterns for a lively and entertaining show, just like in an Indian cinema.
New creation of the Transmusicales Festival of Rennes 2005, patronized by the ADAMI
With the occasion of the Meetings of Transmusicales 2005 of Rennes, Olli carries out the exceptional meeting of Bollywood song, electronic music and of "Bhangra" - a very rhythmic and joyful music, originating in Penjâb, North of India, usually played in the weddings.
Olli invites here several English artists of Indian origin influenced by rock'n'roll, hip hop and electronic music and which refer in "Bhangra" music
Olli and the Bollywood Orchestra, remix Trans 2005 thus proposes a repertory made up at the same time of extracts of the double album "Kitchen" (disc 2 "Magnet songs") and of new titles, original compositions in Hindi or Penjâbi.
Olli
OLLI, pianist and composer, of his true name Ollivier LEROY directs since the age of 17 towards the work of the voice and appears very quickly on stage as a singer in various musical sets. From 1987 to 1990, he studies the voice with Bob COKE, an American musician of international fame. Then, he works in Paris with Gilles PETIT, where he apprehends simultaneously the lyric song, song of the Indian raga, the musical theatre. He travels to India, meets Yvan TRUNZLER, a pupil of the famous Dagar brothers and improves in the traditional song of North India (Dhrupad Kind) while following the teaching of USTAD FAHIDDUDIN DAGAR.
In Paris, he works with an Indian singer of Calcutta, where he learns the more popular aspect of Indian music through the "Bhajans" (devotional songs) in Hindi, Bengali, pendjabi.... After a licence of musicology directed towards the Western classical music, he graduates at the University of Rennes 2 with a report on the topic of "the influence of the Indian music in the French composers after 1945". In 1997, he is plunged in the training of the Sanskrit writing and the Hindi language with Aparna NARAYAN, an Indian of Bengal, painter and poetess, installed in Rennes. She will write several original texts for OLLI, which he will put in music for his repertory and the "Bollywood" project. Lastly, since two years, he approaches the "Qawwali" song, popular style in Pakistan, with Shua..b MUSTAQ.
Among his various musical experiments since 1994, are: PANDIP, a world music band he leads (album..Parfums.. Keltia music and two mini L.P), SHAFALI a project involving Breton traditional musicians. He took part in creations like "Rene Ma..he Nabab ", a musical tale with the singer Yann-Fanch Kemener, SHAFALI and the string quartet MISHRA. He recorded with the group of world-jazz MUKTA (Warner), with the Breton percussionnist Dominique Molard for STOCK AN DANS (Keltia music), with the group of French song LA TORDUE (single ..P..trin.. Sony music).
He composed for the Festival Travelling, music of a dozen dumb short-length film of the beginning of the century and a medium-length film "Aladdin and the marvellous lamp" in 2003.
Merci pour l'ajout et ton mail, ça m'a touchée!! Je ne manquerais pas de suivre de près la suite de tes projets artistiques et j'espère avoir encore l'occasion de vous voir tous sur scène. Je suis fan de tes compos qui font preuve d'une grande originalité. On sent bien ta passion illimitée pour la musique indienne et je la partage aussi!! Bonne continuation!!
Merci pour l'ajout, j'ai vu l'orchestra à grenoble il y a...3 ans, je crois khya baat hai !!!! je suis sitar student d'ustad usman khan de pune, à bientôt
Je suis tombé sur votre musique vraiment par hasard, en écoutant radioteental via winamp. C'est très appréciable de voir comment certains artistes arrivent à assimiler la culture des autres pour en sublimer le mariage, la quintessence.
Coucou!! Ca fait un petit moment!! Bon, à quand un(e) petit(e) tour(née) dans le nord de l'Espagne, ca me ferait tellement plaisir de vous revoir et vous applaudir ici!!! Bisous, Fabienne
Bonjour! Je ne suis pas encore venue vous voir en concert mais certains m'ont dit m'avoir vue planer au-dessus de vous lors du morceau "Salamalaikum DJ"... Ci-dessous un montage de Jess. Bon été! Catherine
Merci Olli and the B.O ! C'est avec plaisir que je vais vous suivre dans ce voyage aux sonorités indiennes ! Bonne route pour cet été... P. S : J'espère que l'Auvergne ne vous fait pas peur et que vous viendrez nous secouer les oreilles très bientôt!
Un petit coucou, dommage que j'ai loupé votre passage à Brest (J'ai eu un voyage improvisé d'une semaine à Prague début mai). Votre deuxième album est super. J'espère que je pourrai bientôt revoir le groupe sur scène !
