Rex Vijayan
| Rex Vijayan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
26 April Kollam, Kerala, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | guitarist, producer, composer, |
Rex Vijayan is a guitarist, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist from Kerala, India. He is the lead guitarist for the alternative Malayali rock band Avial. He started out his career as a composer in the Malayalam film industry through Kerala Cafe by giving the score to Anwar Rasheed's segment 'Bridge'.
Early life
He is the son of Albert Vijayan, a music director in Malayalam films. He self-learnt to play various instrument at a very young age and began his musical career by mastering cover versions.[1]
Motherjane
He was part of the popular Kochi based band Motherjane as the rhythm guitarist from 2000 to 2003[2]
Avial
He is the music composer, lead guitarist and synthesizer of the Malayalam alternative rock band "Avial" since 2003[3]
Other Collaborations
He was part of an amateur German hip-hop band "Intensive Erfrischung" (Intensive Refreshment),[4] which was based in Munich. He is also actively involved with Daksha Seth’s Dance Company, which is concerned with performing on stage contemporary dance. Gibson Guitar Corporation, USA offered him to be their endorsee for their latest high end series guitar "Gibson Les Paul Classic" .[5]
Film Composing
Rex debuted into film music direction with Anwar Rasheed’s 'Bridge', a segment of the portmanteau film 'Kerala Café'.[6] He then did the composing of ‘Chaappa Kurishu’ directed by Sameer Thahir, ‘22 Female Kottayam’, by Aashiq Abu, helped with the background score of films 'Second Show' and 'Friday' and did music for Shyamaprasad's movie 'English' in which he collaborated with American clarinet player and music composer Shankar Tucker[7] in the song 'Aakashame' featuring Rohan Kymal on vocals. He then did the title track for Anil Radhakrishnan Menon's debut movie 'NORTH 24 Kaatham' starring Fahadh Faasil. Rex Vijayan, the composer, turned playback singer with ‘Enthanu Bhai' in Aashiq Abu’s film 'Da Thadiya'. His latest work was for Sameer Thahir's second movie 'Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi' (after his directorial debut, a path breaking movie 'Chaappa Kurishu') in which along with five beautiful songs Rex has also sang the title track 'Neelakasham' where it received a substantial number of hits on Soundcloud within hours.
Filmography
- Kerala Cafe 'Bridge' Segment
- Chaappa Kurishu BGM and songs
- 22 Female Kottayam BGM and songs (along with his band Avial and Bijibal)
- Second Show BGM and songs (along with his band Avial and Nikhil)
- Friday BGM only
- English BGM and songs
- Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi BGM and songs
- North 24 Kaatham Title track 'Thanaro' featuring Sreenath Bhasi on vocals.