By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on May 15, 2018
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on 15 May 2018 in
STORIES
Bishi Bhattacharya and Matthew Hardern have been working together for ten years now. Composer, artist, performer, and club impresario Hardern (aka Glamorre) tells us about the hidden politics and intentions of their project.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Albion Voice, art, Bauhaus, Bishi, Bishi Bhattacharya, Cubists, Exotica, Glamorre, God Save the Queen, Harder Faster Louder, Irony, Islamic State, Kash Point, La Boeuf sur le Toit, Leigh Bowery London, Matthew Hardern, Multiculturalism, NWA Pussy Riot, One Nation (under CCTV), Power, Protest, Seismographic Sounds, Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Smashing, speed darkcore, The Mint Tea Rooms, The Siren Suite, Transnationality |
By Noko 440 on March 15, 2017
By Noko 440 on 15 March 2017 in
AUDIO
They love to provoke and they love to extravagate. London-based underground musician Bishi Bhattacharya and her musical partner Matthew Hardern talk about their biographies, race, and their common project «Albion Voice».
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Albion Voice, Bishi, Bishi Bhattacharya, Exotica, Matthew Hardern, Nationalism, Night Club, Noko 440, Norman Fisher-Jones, Race, Seismographic Sounds, Seismographic Sounds Podcasts, Tradition |
By Nabeel Zuberi on July 4, 2016
By Nabeel Zuberi on 4 July 2016 in
VIDEO
Bishi’s video of «Albion Voice» is reminiscent of the Sex Pistols. She subverts imagery of the national flag while she inserts herself into a pastoral old England to question white Britishness.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Albion Voice, Bishi, Bishi Bhattacharya, Brexit, Britannia, British psychedelia, British-Indian, Britishness, Daniel Defoe’, Derek Jarman, Downton Abbey, empire, Exotica, Folk, Heritage, hybridized identity, Indian raga, Jamie Reid, Jubilee, Migration, Morrissey, Nation, national flag, national voice, Nationalist Music, Nostalgia, pastoral, post-imperial migration, Punk Rock, Queen Elizabeth, queer film, Ravi Shankar, Rule Britannia, Seismographic Sounds, Sex Pistols, South Asian, subversive, Tradition, video, weaving of clans, white Britishness |
By Louise Gray on June 27, 2016
By Louise Gray on 27 June 2016 in
VIDEO
The music of the british artist Bishi Bhattacharya works perfect as a comment on Brexit. In her songs and artwork, she is hijacking and redefining notions of being «british» and claims a multicultural commonwealth.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Albion Voice, Annexation, Beatles, Bishi, Bishi Bhattacharya, Brexit, British Empire, colonialism, commonwealth, Diamond Jubilee, Elizabeth II, England Is Mine, Englishness, Exotica, glory, India, Jamie Reid, King Arthur, London Calling, Matthew Hardern, Michael Bracewell, Morrissey, multicultural, New Folk, Oriental, otherness, pastoral song, Queen Bishi, Race, representation, Seismographic Sounds, Sex Pistols, Situationist, Sukhdev Sandhu, The Canterbury Tales, William Blake
