SATYAKI
NABAMITA
Nabamita Das is a singer-songwriter with the Borno Anonyo ensemble. Her journey in music began at the age of seven with Indian classical training and later in Rabindra Sangeet, particularly the Toppa style. She has grown up listening to and learning folk music from her grandfather, Late Bidit Lal Das, the composer of Shader Lau, Bhromor Koiyo Giya, Morile Kandhish Ne among many others. She did her doctoral research from the University of Birmingham and has been teaching at Presidency University since 2013. Her academic interest lies in the areas of gender studies, children’s literature, and the philosophy of the everyday. She moves back and forth between the academic and the performative to create a form of art in Borno Anonyo that stitches the literary and the poetic though a musical narrative.
Premjit
RAJARSHI
Rajarshi is a management consultant in education. After an MBA in the UK and a decade working there, he came back to Kolkata. He picked up the guitar quite late, in college, while taking his younger brother Ranajoy to guitar classes. Watching Ranajoy learn made him want to teach himself. Self-taught since, and composing songs since school, he is today a rhythm guitarist, vocalist and composer in Borno Anonyo, the collective named after his son. Many of the band’s original songs are his compositions. The melodies often echo a pop nostalgia of the city’s band music, and the minor chords of melancholia that come with homecoming.
Dibyokamal
Dibyokamal Mitra plays the violin, viola and mandolin with Borno Anonyo and occasionally sings. Having trained as a western classical musician from his youth, he was later attracted by the sounds of swing and hot jazz. Working in music as a teacher, composer, performer, writer and arranger, he has lectured on the history of western music to university students, as well as written newspaper articles on the same. He has played with orchestras internationally, and has composed and performed for feature films, plays and advertisements. He is the founder member of The Big Other, one of India’s only bands that play in the style of Django Reinhardt which has come to be known as ‘gypsy jazz’. If he is not to be found with a violin under his chin, or his nose buried in a book on French theory, he can be found professing on English literature and completing a Doctoral degree in the same
Alex
Alex is a guitar player, music producer from Kolkata. He has been part of Bengali bands like Lokayat, Parashpathor, later joining Indian Blues playing with Shiraz Ali Khan under Maihar Gharana. Alex made his debut as film scorer with Zee Originals Manikanchona and continued his journey with films Biday Byomkesh, Charitraheen, Dracula Sir along with Marathi film Rairand in Mumbai, his latest work being Johny Bonny released from Klikk. He also has a project called Fuchsia Grey with its first release Phantasmagoria which portrays an audio visual story. He has also collaborated with with various artists from Bengal as a session guitar player and producing albums for bands. Alex also takes interest mixing and mastering songs as a hobby. Alex plays anchors the lead guitars for Borno Anonyo.
Dwaipayan
Dwaipayan is a Kolkata-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music educator. He is the bass guitarist and violist for Borno Anonyo. He has been training in Western Classical Music (Violin) under Maestro Abraham Mazumder since 2009. He is currently studying Indian Classical Music (Sitar) under Acharya Sri Siddharta Roy Chowdhury. A graduate and postgraduate in Western Classical Music from Rabindra Bharati University, he has performed with chamber orchestras and rock bands at renowned venues including St. Paul’s Cathedral, Victoria Memorial, Indian Museum, Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, All India Radio, IISER Kalyani, and IIT Kharagpur. As a composer, he has scored music for several short films released across Indian OTT platforms. Alongside his work as a performer and composer, he teaches Western Classical Violin and Guitar. He was previously the songwriter and bass guitarist of the rock band Anarkyst.
RANAJOY
Ranajoy is a senior faculty at FX School, a Mumbai based Vfx training institute and also works as a freelance Motion Designer.
Ranajoy began to learn the guitar at an early age and gradually grew an interest in rock music. He joined the Bengali rock band Lokayat as the lead guitarist and performed concerts within and outside of Kolkata. His musical lesions were put to a halt with the passing away of his teacher Samik Chatterjee, lovingly known as Bubun in the band circuit of the city. Ranajoy shifted to Mumbai to build a career in Visual Effects, thereafter. His passion for music never faded away though. He joined Borno Anonyo as a guitarist during the ‘work from home’ phase of the pandemic lockdown. He recorded songs with the band as the guitarist, as the recording artist and also played the role of a back stage manager. Ranajoy has, since the time of inception of Borno Anonyo, conceptualised their visual arts, concert posters, album covers and designed their creative space including photo shoots and videography of almost all songs released in the digital space until today.
