East West Local

Debalina Bhowmick and her team consisting of 3 talented rural musicians Golam Fakir, Sonatan Das and Mohan Tati were in Goa in Jun 2014 to perform at Art Escape, Baywatch and to release her maiden album, Chariya Manabgari. At the end of an excellent traditional folk show, Elvis Lobo and Carlos Gonsalves came up to the stage and started jamming with the group, it was sounding fantastic. Thus, in Sep the team met in Goa and did a workshop for 3 full days, created a combination music and the same was performed at Zoya. Immediately after that the same was recorded live at The Peninsula Studios, Delhi. This is how East West Local was formed presenting TransBangla Music. East West Local is a collaborative initiative of banglanatak dot com, presenting Trans Bangla Music, which is Bengali folk based World Music. It has 7 members on stage. This band comprises of urban and rural musicians of Bengal and Goa.