Bee and the Buskers
Durjoy aka Zom-Bee
Durjoy started taking music seriously since 2004 and it was from then that he started composing his own songs and his only accompaniment at that time was his guitar, on which he could play only a handful of chords. Initially, he was excessively influenced by the songs of Bob Dylan and it was then that he took up the harmonica as his second instrument, and started playing both simultaneously doing that ‘one-man band act’. However, he sometimes refers to the fact that he is more of a poet than a singer. He has over eighty originals to his name and is the lead vocalist of the “Bee & the Buskers”.
Recently since October 2012, he has featured in several Anjan Dutt’s productions such as "Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo", "Only Dylan", "Shesh Bole Kichu Nei" and "Abani Opera".
Role / Instruments:
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica and Songwriting
Favourite Genres:
Rock 'n' Roll, Blues, Jazz, Country and Flamenco
Equipments:
Acoustic Guitars - Takamine LTD 2008 with Fishman Preamp
Granada PRS 1 Acoustic Guitar
Yamaha C 70 Nylon String Guitar
Harmonicas - Hohner "Blues Harp", Hohner "Pro Harp"
Hohner "Special 20" and Hohner "Silver Star"
From his Jukebox:
Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Led Zeppelin,
The Beatles, The Monkeys, Oasis, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Ali
Akbar Khan, Joan Baez, Dave Matthews Band, Mark Knopfler,
Dire Straits, Sting, The Police, Paco de Lucia, Al di Meola, Louis
Armstrong, Chet Baker, The Traveling Wilburys, Bratsch, Loyko
etc etc etc...
Besides Bee & the Buskers:
* Solo career:
2005 - till date - More than 50 shows with notable performances in Best of Open Mic. (Someplace Else, Kolkata, April 2010), World Music Day 2011 (The Basement, Kolkata), Goa and New Delhi, both in 2008.
* "Only Dylan" - Live at Gyan Manch, September 21, 2013, with Amyt Datta,
Anjan Dutt, Rahul Guha Roy, Neel Dutt, Debopratim Bakshi,
Arka Mukherjee and Lew Hilt.
* Break Even: 2008 - 2009
* Glass Onion: 2006 - 2007
* Chilekotha: 2005 - 2008
* Theatrical Productions:
"Brishti Finally", dir. Ayan Bannerjee, staged at Kala Mandir and Gyan Manch, 2014 - 2015.
"Abani Opera", dir. Anjan Dutt, staged at Gyan Manch, 2014 - 2015
"Lady Chatterlee's Lover Undone", dir. Rijit Chatterjee, staged at G.D. Birla Sabhaghar, 2013
Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo", a production by Anjan Dutt, staged at Max Müller Bhavan and Gyan Manch, 2012 - 2013.
“Lokhai”: A transcription of Juan Rulfo’s “Macario”, dir. by Dwaipayan Choudhury, staged at Jadavpur University, 2011.
"The Dinner Party", dir. by Triporno Bandopadhyay, staged at Gyan Manch (2010) and NUJS (2011).
"Achindwiper Khonje", a transcription of Jose Saramago's "A Tale of the Unknown Island", staged at jadavpur University and Max Müller Bhavan, 2008.
* Other Visual and Audio Media:
"The New Music", with Arka Mukherjee, Tv South Asia, March 2012.
"Good Morning South Asia", with Ankhi Nath, Tv South Asia, November 2010.
"Special feature", Tv South Asia, September 2010.
"Live at Café South Asia", Tv South Asia, January 2010.
"Antenna, Season 2", with Silajit, Tara Tv, November 2009.
"On Bob Dyan - A 4 hr. long Audio Documentary", with Ayan Guha, 90.8 JU Community Radio, May 2008.
"Live on Campus Music", 90.8 JU Community Radio, September 2007.
"Special feature" with RJ Riddhi, 92.7 Big fm, March 2007.
* Background Scores for Digital Media:
"Tumi Ki Korecho? (What Have You Done?)", a short film by Biswajit Sarkar, September 2014.
“Saudade”, a Loreto College production, May 2011
“La Lumiere”, a Jadavpur University Film Studies production, March 2011
“Infidel”, a short film by Anupam Chatterjee, January 2010
“Bow & Beyond”, a documentary by Ritajit Raychoudhury, December 2009
“Azure”, a short film by Rohit K. Dasgupta, May 2009
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