Bombay Groovy - Psychedelic Instrumental Rock (Brazil)

In the summer of 2012 musician Daniel Costa, who has played the sitar with several important performers of the Brazilian psychedelic scene, decided to pick up the bass. At the same time he met Rodrigo Bourganos, a young multi-instrumentalist that had taken India sitar classes in Brazil with the same teacher as him. After an afternoon filled with music at Daniel's house, the idea of creating a band called Bombay Groovy was born. The band began taking shape soon after, with the arrival of drummer Leo Costa, an experienced musician in progressive and psychedelic rock. The drummer's affinity with ethnic percussion also helped to increment significantly the peculiar and visceral style of the band. The constant presence of the sitar is a decisive element for the band's sound and reveals the resolute presence of Oriental music. 

Rodrigo, who also was taught in the Orient by guru Chandranath Battacharya, plays the instrument standing, as if it were an electric guitar, transgressing dogmas of Indian culture by abandoning the lotus posture which he learned in the Orient with his teacher. Yet, they were still missing a harmonic instrument that could both provide several moods and synesthesae and sound like a guitar, while the sitar itself worked as a “voice.” The answer was clear – a Hammond organ. That's how Daniel decided to invite Jimmy Pappon, a virtuoso pianist that had played in the celebrated tribute to Frank Zappa, “Central Scrutinizer,” to handle the Hammond, his main instrument. 

Bombay Groovy is a band that heeds to no borders and redraws with vigor, rigor and personality a new rock concept based on a renewed alliance between East and West. The group's unusual instrument formation, with the metallic sound of the Indian sitar; the deep and versatile sound of the Hammond organ; and the complex drums reveal a band filled with psychedelia, exoticism and a lot of groove.

2014 Bombay Groovy

Jimmy Diniz Pappon: Hammond organ, harpsichord, piano, mellotron, synthesizer

Rodrigo Bourganos: Indian sitar, bass guitar, craviola, bouzouki, theremin, chaco

Danniel Costa: Low (one of the founders, died on 05/22/2015, due to a cardiac arrhythmia)

Lucas Roxo: percussion and drums

2016 Dandy do Dendê

Jimmy Diniz Pappon: Hammond organ, harpsichord, piano, mellotron, synthesizer

Rodrigo Bourganos: Indian sitar, bass guitar, craviola, bouzouki, theremin, chaco

Leonardo Nascimento: percussion and drums

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