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Summit Attempt will play at Big Ben, Calcutta, on Friday, April 30, 2010. Summit Attempt will play at Blue Frog, Mumbai, on Saturday, May 8, 2010. Earlier
----------------------------- The Telegraph interviews Summit Attempt "Essentially a platform to showcase Sumit’s songwriting, the four-piece — with Sumit on guitars and vocals, Mainak “Bumpy” Nagchowdhury on bass, Sayantan Sengupta on guitars and Dwaipayan “Doi” Saha on drums, percussion and vocals — just released its debut album, Blue Bugyal, independently and has seen a steadily growing fanbase since its inception in 2007, thanks to its uplifting live gigs."Read the interview here. ----------------------------- Rolling Stone reviews Summit Attempt Summit Attempt Summit Attempt is lead vocalist Sumit Bhattacharya’s need to justify his musical sensibility and leaning in blues. Bhattacharya has played in the past with Kolkata bands such as Easy Riders and Latin-jazz band Orient Express and is currently lead guitarist of Mumbai-based band Prayag. Summit Attempt suffers a geographical divide with its members scattered in Mumbai and Kolkata, but little does it show. ‘Changes’ off its latest album Blue Bugyal is a very well crafted ensemble of blues and country music. The generous usage of steel guitars and driving slides reminds one of Neil Young attempting country music on his 1985 album Old Ways. The moaning slide guitars, moody blues, and patient solos work for every note and slide, ring for longer than what one is used to. It is the drawling pace of the song and Bhattacharya’s husky vocals, which are most endearing, as though urging of one to escape to the country landscape. “And it’s been sometime/Since I felt like it’s really worthwhile/To play the song till the very end/And let the blue note ring on/Round the bend” – the lyrics take on the sort of sentiment that usually runs through country songs with a slip of the blues. — Neha Sharma, Rolling Stone India, on Changes. * Note: Changes is sung by Doi, and not Sumit, who insists he cannot sing to save his life. We have reproduced the review faithfully as it appeared, since the Rolling Stone India website doesn't have the articles yet. ----------------------------- "With a sound and style halfway between the UK and America (and the finer musical points thereof) Sumit could be one of India's Rock Gods. Certainly if this band played live they would gather fans by the armful, no doubt about it whatsoever... Highly Recommended Classic Rock (by way of India)" — Steve Gilmore, musician and critic, on Farewell. Full review here "Summit Attempt’s music is influenced by singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Neil Young as well as jazz-rock guru John McLaughlin and Miles Davis, not to mention the jam sensibilities of the Grateful Dead. The band is heavy on instrumentals.... Plenty of improvisations — often mellow, often bluesy — characterised the sound." — Concert review, The Telegraph, Kolkata. Full article here "Changes is 'a song about life as I've known it' according to the man himself who I also assume is responsible for everything I am hearing. In which case, take a bow maestro… Must Have Country Blues. From India." — John Kulamafi (www.soundclick.com). |