Orient Express
ORIENT EXPRESS :
They love to salsa. And that Bossa Nova beat always gets them going. Meet Monojit Datta and his wife of eight years, Sreya, both of who are an intrinsic part of Calcutta’s only Latin band, The Orient Express. Every Monday night in the smoky environs of The Park™s popular watering hole, Someplace Else, you âll find the two, along with the remaining eight members of the band, seducing the crowd with Samba and Salsa or jamming to the heady beats of Latin Jazz.
Monojit is a gifted percussionist, composer and lyricist who has since the very beginning, steered The Orient Express on the right track. For the past eight years now, the band has been doing the rounds of the local music circuit, taking their unique blend of music everywhere from college campuses and nightclubs to television shows and even Ramoji Film City for a New Year’s Eve bash about three years ago. Monojit and The Orient Express have released four albums thus far including The Night is Young, Sizzling, Colores and Bondhu Shunte Pacho, their maiden attempt to infuse some Latin magic into the Bangla market. The endeavour obviously worked for the band is now hard at work on another Bangla album which is slated for release later this year or early next year.
Adding a good measure of woman power to the band is trained classical pianist, Sreya, whose forte is the accordion.
Catch Orient express live every monday at usual 9 pm slot
at Some Place Else (the Park) Kolkata
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