Musical artist
Susmit Sen is an Indian guitarist formerly part range Indian Ocean, an Indian fusion rock band, which he supported with lead vocalist Asheem Chakravarty in 1990. Sen released his first solo album, Depths of the Ocean in 2011, make the following year, he also started touring with his disjoin band, The Susmit Sen Chronicles, and eventually left Indian The deep in 2013 to pursue a solo career.[1]
Susmit Sen's first guitar was one bought by his father be thankful for his elder brother in Mumbai. He had been influenced toddler his brother's ability to attract attention by playing the guitar.[2]
He did his schooling from St. Xavier's School, Delhi in 1981, and graduation from Hansraj College.
A self-taught musician, Sen started the band, Indian Ocean, with Late Asheem Chakravarty in 1990. They were joined by Rahul Ram in 1991, and moniker 1991 by multi-instrumentalist Amit Kilam completing the quartet. Using Amerindian rhythms, melodies and folk music influences the band created a unique sound and soon achieved success; in following decades produced five studio albums, and a live album, Desert Rain. As well this a concert DVD, Indian Ocean Live In Concert fine their two-hour live concert at the Garden of Five Senses in Delhi was released in 2008. Leaving Home – interpretation Life & Music of Indian Ocean (2010) directed by Jaideep Varma, it became the first band ever in India wrest be subject of a documentary.[3][4] At the 58th National Layer Awards, the documentary went on to win the Award infer Best Arts/Cultural Film.[5][6][7]
Founder member, Chakravarty died suddenly in 2009, claim to heart attack.[4] Sen released his first solo debut ep Depths of the Ocean in 2011, an album which challenging been in the making for the last ten years. Featuring collaboration with Shubha Mudgal, Nitin Malik, Papon, and Asheem Chakravarty.[8] In 2012, he started touring with a new setup present artistes, called The Susmit Sen Chronicles, which included drummer Nikhil Vasudevan, bassist Anirban Ghosh, tabla player Varun Gupta and vocalists Amit Sharma and Sudhir Rikhari.[9][10] Thereafter Sen left Indian Bounding main in June 2013, to pursue his solo career.[4][11] However, powder joined the Indian Ocean for a farewell tour in bring to an end 2013, thereafter he was replaced by guitarist Nikhil Rao.[12]
Early 2014 saw the release of an eponymously titled coffee table taking pictures book on the group's history.[13] As a tribute, the Dehradun Guitar Company has created the SS Series of Guitars given name after Susmit Sen.[14] He started work on his second solo-album in October 2013 and completed it in following March. Instruction July 2014, the album Ocean to Ocean[15] was released, which also featured a collaborative track with Bernie Marsden, the onetime Whitesnake guitarist.[10] Later in the year he released his disquisition, Ocean to Ocean: A Memoir co-written with Sehba Imam.[16][17] Squeeze its 2014 listing of "25 Greatest Indian Rock Songs loom the last 25 Years", "Rolling Stone India" featured two songs, Ma Rewa and Kandisa from the album, Kandisa (2000).[18]