Insomnia (band)

Insomnia (Bengali: ইনসমনিয়া) is a rock band based in Kolkata, West Bengal. The band's repertoire includes both English and Bangla songs. The band has an album each in English (Cry of the Spirit - self released) and Bangla (Proloyer Shomoye - Asha Audio). Insomnia is a rock band from Eastern India with bilingual repertoire. Insomnia are also quite adept at executing live music for theatre, being part of the act itself, in plays such as Peacewards (directed by Jayant Kripalani, produced by Red Curtain Productions, based on monologues written by Manjula Padmanabhan), a 3rd theatre version of Rokto Korobi(written by Rabindranath Tagore, conceptualised by Badal Sarkar, directed by , starring ) and numerous other plays. "Opekkha" from their Bangla album Proloyer Shomoye was part of the original soundtrack of the first Bangla sex comedy movie Aamra (produced by Venkatesh fims, directed by , cast - , , Rudranil Ghosh, Nilanjanaa, Ananya Chatterjee, Kaushik Ghosh, Rajatava Datta, Momo).

Insomnia plays every week at Someplace Else, The Park Friday midnights. The band has a following at the emerging , as well.

Discography

Cry of the Spirit

Cry of the Spirit' was the debut album of Insomnia. The album showed the original sound of Insomnia which...
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