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Praised as “a true treat for the adventurous ear” (TimeOut NY), Bombay Rickey is a five-piece band with a unique sound evocative of 1960s movie soundscapes. The group plays both covers and original music that borrow equally from the worlds of cumbia, surf rock, Bollywood, spaghetti-Western, balanced out with soaring operatic vocals.
Since its inception in 2012, Bombay Rickey has become a fixture at Brooklyn mainstay Barbés, as well as Le Poisson Rouge, Lincoln Center, Roulette, La Mama, Kaufman Center in New York, Tete-a-Tete Festival in London, England and up and down the east coast at venues such as The Smithsonian National Gallery, Troy Performing Arts Center, Painted Bride Arts Center.
Bombay Rickey’s debut album, Cinefonia, was named best debut of 2014 by New York Music Daily and received the Vox Pop Award for Best Eclectic Album from the International Music Awards. The sophomore album, Electric Bhairavi won best eclectic album at the 17th annual Independent Music Awards. In 2021, the group attended a composition residency at Antenna Cloud Farm and released its self-titled third album in 2024.
Bombay Rickey has created opera cabaret based on the life of Yma Sumac for the prestigious PROTOTYPE Festival in New York City. The show ran for seven sold-out performances and was hailed as a “rocking musical show” by the Wall Street Journal.
The band features Kamala Sankaram: vocals, accordion; Drew Fleming: guitar, vocals; and Jeff Hudgins: alto saxophone, vocals; with Nick Cudahy: bass; and Brian Shankar Adler: drums. All longtime NY musicians, the five members of Bombay Rickey have done previous work with John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Chicha Libre, and Alarm Will Sound, to name a few.
