| Black Friday | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by Indian Ocean | ||||
| Released | January 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 2004 | |||
| Genre | Fusion, Rock, Jazz | |||
| Length | 49:16 | |||
| Language | Hindi | |||
| Label | Times Music | |||
| Producer | K J Singh | |||
| Indian Ocean chronology | ||||
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Black Friday is the soundtrack and score for the 2004 film Black Friday. The album has been composed by the band Indian Ocean and it is their first film soundtrack.[1] It has a total of nine tracks - three songs and six instrumentals. The album was released in January 2005 by Times Music.
Black Friday was recorded over three months in 2003-04,[2] and K J Singh (who produced Kandisa) was the sound engineer as well as co-producer.[3] The album's instrumentals make extensive use of brass instruments, woodwinds and digital sounds;[3] the use of the saxophone, clarinet and electric guitar was a first for the band.[2]
Anurag Kashyap, the director of the film, is a fan of Indian Ocean and owns all their albums. He visited the band in Delhi along with Arindam Mitra, the producer of the film. "Nothing filmi for my film," he told the band about the kind of music he was expecting.[2] Kashyap gave the band a free hand when it came to the music.[4] He gave the following reason for choosing Indian Ocean to compose the music for his film-
| “ | I wanted to use someone away from the pollution of Mumbai kind of music, sounds that are virgin, which have an eccentricity too. If you try some different beat here, people would label you with A.R. Rahman kind of music. I wanted to stay away from that too.[5] | ” |
The band created four tunes for the album, but only three made it into the final album.[4] Kashyap was listening to some of their tracks and liked Bandeh. Later Piyush Mishra wrote the words after getting "the feel of the song."[1] He has also written the lyrics for the other two songs - Badshah In Jail and Bharam Bhap Ke.
Black Friday is the most successful album of Indian Ocean, and the song Bandeh was an instant hit reaching a peak position of #2 on the film charts.[6][7]
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| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [8] |
| IndiaFM | [9] |
| Planet Bollywood | [10] |
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The music was very well received with Planet Bollywood giving it a 9.0 rating, and India FM rating it 3.5. The Business Standard called it "one of the best albums money can buy this season."[11] "Exhilarating, simply exhilarating," The Hindu said and termed the album "a must buy."[12]
Indian Ocean's songs and score have been described as haunting[13] and goose bump inducing.[14]