Ramachandra Borcar

Ramachandra Borcar is a musician/composer/producer/DJ whose work mixes ethnic techno, Science Fiction vibes and a spaghetti western ethos. His music has a retro-70's spy fascination. He has recently turned from DJing to film scoring and composing.

Born in Montreal of an Indian father and a Danish mother, he had a diverse musical career. After studying music composition and electro-acoustic music at McGill University, he went on to create scores for film, television, documentaries, commercials and the theatre.

Under the name Ramasutra (alias DJ Ram, but do not confuse with the Russian DJ Ram), he released his self-produced debut album "The East Infection" in 1999 and the follow up "El Pipo Del Taxi" in 2003. His debut won a Felix Award in 2000 (amongst three nominations including best arranger), two Mimi awards for album of the year and best live show, and a Juno nomination for best alternative album. His second release won a Mimi award for best producer.

Apart from his personal project, Ram has scored several films including "Camping Sauvage" (2004), "Familia" (2005), and the award winningFact|date=February 2007 documentary "Regular Or Super" (2004), whose original soundtrack was released on his own label Semprini Records as "Steel and Glass". In 2002 he was awarded a Jutras award for his score to "Soft Shell Man" ("Un crabe dans la tête"). His television work includes the ten part series "Web Dreams", themes for "Tout Le Monde En Parle", "Casting", "Women Warriors" and commercials for Mercedes, Toyota and Cadbury. He also did a soundtrack for the documentary "Bombay Calling".

Ram’s production work includes not only his personal albums and soundtracks but other artists as well. In 2005 he produced debut albums for the Brazilian funk band Gaia, the indo-jazz outfit Catherine Potter’s Duniya Project, Bulgarian gypsy band Kaba Horo and more recently the Montreal tex-mex electro duo Call Me Poupee and Voivod.

He has frequently collaborated with female vocalist [http://www.marciaseebaran.com Marcia Seebaran] , and has opened for Bjork, Asian Dub Foundation.

Discography

Links & Sources

Interview about Jazz performancehttp://www.montrealmirror.com/2005/070705/music5.html

Official Sitehttp://www.semprinirecords.com

Listen to an interview with him (in French) herehttp://www.radio-canada.ca/refuge/reportages.asp?id=1278

Review of EPhttp://www.music-critic.ca/wp/?p=47

"Bombay Calling" Informationhttp://www.nfb.ca/communique/communique.php?nav=2&id=15370&v=h&lg=en

"Duniyan Project" informationhttp://www.thelivemusicreport.com/received/2006/paulYoungman/duniyaProject.html

"Steel And Glass" informationhttp://www.deckert-distribution.com/films/deckert_192.htm

"Kaba Horo" informationhttp://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/arts/story.html?id=a7eee59f-1921-4fe5-a522-28459bb0df16

Old Interview from "The East Infection" Erahttp://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1999/111899/cover.html

Article circa "El Pipo Del Taxi"http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2003/062603/music4.html

Concert Review (from an audience member)http://www.deor.org/~jlv/writings/raves/ramasutra.html