Trickbaby - Chor Bazaar
Trickbaby are one of the best British bands you’ve never heard of, unless of course you are one of the 1 billion people who saw their stunning live performance on the MTV Style Awards that is! With a multi-platinum debut album already under their belt, their follow up ‘Chor Bazaar’ is one of the most eagerly anticipated albums of 2008…
The London-based band have quietly sold over 3 million copies of their debut album ‘Hanging Around’ worldwide, with thanks to tracks having featured on numerous Bollywood soundtracks. They also had the hit ‘Sabse Bada Rupaiya/Bluffmaster’ which was a Number One smash in India.
Chor Bazaar, due out in the UK in October, was released in India at the beginning of July, on India’s biggest independent label, Saregama. Recorded at Eden studios, produced by Trickbaby, mixed with Emre Ramazanoglu (Prodigy/Shakira) and Dario Dendi (Stereophonics/Kaiser Chiefs/KT Tunstall), the album features guest appearances by Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hütz , Marcella Detroit (ex Shakespeare's Sister), Yuri Lemeshev (accordion) and Sergey Ryabtzev (violin).
The first single to come from the album is entitled ‘Nine Parts Of Desire’, which is also due out this October. The video for the track was produced by Ramesh Sippy (director of Sholay) and directed by his son Rohan (Bluffmaster).
Starring Bollywood superstar Abhishek Bachchan as lead singer Saira's love interest, with Priyanka Chopra (ex Miss World, also a massive Bollywood star) as her love rival, the video is set to be an international hit! If Johnny Depp is a fan (and also planning to use Trickbaby material in a film he is working on later this year) then it isn’t long before you will be too…