Red Bull Music Presents Disco Puppet Album Launch Tour, ‘Aranyer Din Ratri’, presented in a

stream of consciousness format where tracks flow into one other building a linear narrative one

of search and self-discovery. The album will be a theatrical performance with sets, visuals, light

design and movement.

The tracks flow into one another, weaving a narrative of search, discovery and acceptance.

Disco Puppet’s music remains sonically adventurous, contrasting assiduously crafted moments

of tenderness with outright abrasion. There are playful moments too, courtesy his battered

Casio SA47. The toy keyboard is accompanied by samples, tape machine artefacts and

saturated 808s - building on Shoumik’s familiar yet ever evolving sound palette.

Aranye Din Ratri (Disco Puppet’s third full length) gets its name from a 1970 Satyajit Ray film.

Shoumik first saw the film in 2016, after which he began to take an active interest in Ray’s

works. These movies became a window into understanding his own personal history and art. He

began to understand his attraction to seemingly insignificant details of daily life, the way people

interact and the longing for human contact. Although his work always explored these themes,

this was the first time he became aware of it.

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About Disco Puppet

Shoumik Biswas has been making music from his teens. First in Kolkata based Dream Pop

outfit, The Monkey in Me. Then as part of Bangalore based Post/Space Rock band, Space

Behind the Yellow Room. He started his solo project, Disco Puppet in 2014. Disco Puppet is an

electronic music producer/composer. He is also part of Bangalore based label/collective,

Consolidate.

Disco Puppet has been releasing music since 2014. In 2016, he released Spring EP, via

Consolidate Records. At the start of 2017, Disco Puppet received the TOTO Funds the Arts

Award for music. Later that year, he self released his first full length album, I’m Going Home. In

March 2017, he did a six city tour in China. A few months later, he released his second full

length album, Princess This, via Consolidate Records. Disco Puppet also featured on a track

with Zed Bias, released on Exit Records in 2017. Since then, he has been releasing singles and

two new albums are in the works.

His sound is characterized by its irreverence towards the stylistic and procedural dictates of

genres and their purists. This stems partly from ideology, but mostly from a tendency to get

easily bored. But cerebral as his work is, he matches it with heart. His experiments, though

nearly scientific in their rigour, are always essentially human.