Insomnia (band)
| Insomnia | |
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The mark of sleeplessness
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Genres | Alternative, nu age, progressive rock, Bengali rock |
| Years active | 1998-2010 |
| Labels | Independent, Asha Audio, HMV, saregama |
| Members | Rajarshi Barman (Dodo), Souvik Gupta (Savvy Gupta), Subhodip Banerjee (Subho), Prasenjit Chakrabutty (Pom), Rohit Nandi (Rohit), Manager - Rahul Mehra (Paiya) |
| Past members | Subhajit Roy Chowdhury (Subho), Bodhisattwa Ghosh (Bodhi), Sudipto Banerjee (Buti), Sayantan Neogi (Ninnai), Dipanjan Mukherjee (Ebu), Santanu Das Roy (Tito), Ayan Dasgupta (Boom), Sougata Basu (Papa) |
| Cry of the Spirit | |
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| Studio album by Insomnia | |
| Released | September 2004 (India) |
| Recorded | September 2003-October 2003 |
| Genre | Progressive rock, psychedelic rock |
| Label | Independent Label |
| Producer | Sumit Ray |
| Proloyer Shomoye | |
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| Studio album by Insomnia | |
| Released | September 2006 (India) |
| Recorded | September 2003-October 2003 |
| Genre | Progressive rock, psychedelic rock |
| Label | Asha Audio |
| Producer | Jojo, Potla |
Insomnia (Bengali: ইনসমনিয়া) was a rock band based in Kolkata,West Bengal. The band's repertoire included both English and Bengali songs. The band has an album each in English (Cry of the Spirit - self released) and Bengali (Proloyer Shomoye - Asha Audio). Insomnia were also quite adept at executing live music for theatre, being part of the act itself, in plays such as Peacewards (directed by Jayant Kripalani, produced by Red Curtain Productions, based on monologues written by Manjula Padmanabhan), a 3rd theatre version of Rokto Korobi (written by Rabindranath Tagore, conceptualised by Badal Sarkar, directed by Parnab Mukherjee, starring Sudipta Chakraborty) and numerous other plays. "Opekkha" from their Bengali album Proloyer Shomoye was part of the original soundtrack of the first Bengali sex comedy movie Aamra (produced by Venkatesh films, directed by Mainak Bhaumik, cast - Parambrata Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta, Rudranil Ghosh, Nilanjana, Ananya Chatterjee, Kaushik Ghosh, Rajatava Datta, Momo).
Cry of the Spirit' was the debut album of Insomnia. The album showed the original sound of Insomnia which shifted heavily later on after moving to Bengali language abandoning English.
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