Amyt Datta
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Amyt Datta
| image = Amyt_Datta.JPG
| caption = Amyt Datta in concert with Pinknoise 2009.
| birth_name = Amyt Datta
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1960|10|20}}
| birth_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| instrument = Electric guitar, Guitar Synthesizer, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Lap steel guitar
| genre = Rock, Jazz, Blues, Experimental.
| occupation = Musician, guitarist, producer, composer
| years_active = 1985–present
| associated_acts = PINKNOISE, Skinny Alley, Parekh & Singh
| website = https://soundcloud.com/amytdatta
}}
Amyt Datta (born 20 October 1960) is a guitarist, and producer from Kolkata.{{cite web |author=Bruce Lee Mani |date=2008-03-01 |url=http://www.rollingstone-india.com/feature/featuredetails.php?featureid=248 |work=Rolling Stone Magazine (India) |title=India's Best Axe-Men |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630131500/http://www.rollingstone-india.com/feature/featuredetails.php?featureid=248 |archive-date=30 June 2009 |access-date=1 June 2013}} He toured extensively with the rock band Shiva from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He later played with Pinknoise, the late-night alter ego to pop/rock band Skinny Alley in the early 2000s {{Cite web|url=https://thepinknoise.bandcamp.com/|title=Economy of Love, by The Pink Noise|website=The Pink Noise}}{{Cite web|url=https://skinnyalley.bandcamp.com/|title=Skinny Alley|website=Skinny Alley}} and has continued his own solo work, often in collaboration with Jivraj Singh of Parekh & Singh. His most recent album The Red Plant was released on 10 December 2021.
Early life
His father was an educationist and his mother belonged to a family with a strong musical tradition. Amyt's maternal grandfather Raichand Boral is regarded as the father of Bollywood music.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}
He and his cousin started playing the guitar when they found a lap steel guitar lying around in their home. They started taking guitar lessons which were mostly in Indian classical and semi-classical music. He started taking western music theory lessons from the legendary Carlton Kitto. His first guitar was what he calls "the Trunk". It was made by his friend who took just Rs. 300 from him. It looked like a log and had a very high action.{{cite web |url=http://exnihilomagazine.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/tales-of-the-blue-eyed-boy-an-interview-with-amyt-dutta/ |title=Tales of the Blue-Eyed Boy: An Interview with Amyt Dutta |access-date=1 June 2013 |date=15 June 2008}}{{Better source needed|date=October 2021}}
Discography
- D for Brother 1992{{cite web|url=http://nh7.in/indiecision/2010/02/12/amyt-dattas-d-for-brother-online/ |title=Amyt Datta's D For Brother Online › NH7 | Discover new music and explore alternative culture from India and around the world |publisher=Nh7.in |date=12 February 2010 |access-date=26 December 2013}}
- Escape the Roar, SKINNY ALLEY, 2003{{cite web|url=http://www.skinnyalley.bandcamp.com/track/escape-the-roar |title=Escape The Roar | Skinny Alley |publisher=Skinnyalley.bandcamp.com |date=1 January 2003 |access-date=26 December 2013}}
- Songs from the Moony Boom, SKINNY ALLEY, 2008{{Cite web|url=https://store.cdbaby.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726092613/http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/skinnyalley |title=CD Baby Music Store|archive-date=26 July 2008|website=store.cdbaby.com}}
- Quirkwork, PINKNOISE, 2009
- PINKFRAUD, PINKNOISE, 2009
- The Dance of the Diaspora, PINKNOISE, 2009–2010
- Electropink, PINKNOISE, 2010
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130724045010/http://amytdatta.com/ambiance-de-danse Ambiance de Danse], solo, 2013
- [http://music.amytdatta.com/ Pietra Dura], solo, 2016
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20161203060836/http://music.amytdatta.com/album/amino-acid Amino Acid], solo, 2016
- [https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/people/amyt-dattas-guitar-is-on-song-always/cid/1835235 Roja Planta], solo, 2021
Movie career
In 2011, Amyt Datta appeared as a guitarist in a Bengali rock musical movie Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona directed by Anjan Dutt. In 2019, he appeared in If Not for You,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10418976/|title=If Not for You (2019)|website=IMDb |date=24 May 2019|access-date=21 June 2020}} a documentary about Kolkata's long lasting love affair with legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110202135632/http://itspinknoise.com/ PINKNOISE]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20040430025916/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040318/asp/calcutta/story_3017581.asp Bound by fret, friendship : Jayashree Singh and Amyt Dutta]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721170459/http://www.ilovekolkata.in/index.php/Beatspace/A-conversation-with-Amyt-Datta.html A conversation with Amyt Datta By Anant Shrivastava]
- [http://exnihilomagazine.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/tales-of-the-blue-eyed-boy-an-interview-with-amyt-dutta/ Tales of the Blue-Eyed Boy: An Interview with Amyt Dutta By Priyanka Roy]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090630131500/http://www.rollingstone-india.com/feature/featuredetails.php?featureid=248 India's Best Axe-Men, RollingStone, India.]
- [http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=123250&category=Arts&catID=6 Article on Merinews]
- {{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20050506105442/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2004/04/26/stories/2004042601720300.htm Article in The Hindu]}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090626220107/http://www.timeoutmumbai.net/music/music_details.asp?code=11&source=1 TimeOut Mumbai Article]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100113094743/http://www.indiecision.com/tag/pink-noise/ Indiecision Interview]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090626135602/http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=18826 Screen India Article]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090626184802/http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=205353 Kolkata Newsline Article on Jayashree Singh]
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