Shilpa Ray
has led many different lives. She founded a band called Beat the Devil,
an experiment in grafting punk sounds onto Indian time signatures,
which disbanded not long after its eponymous EP in 2006. She then became
the lead singer of Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers, a more
blues-oriented garage rock band that split up in 2011. In the aftermath
of a second breakup, Ray spent time touring with Nick Cave and the Bad
Seeds, releasing new solo music along the way. Eventually, she teamed up
with pedal steel guitarist/bassist Jon “Catfish” DeLorme,
guitarist/bassist Alistair Paxton, and drummer Russ Lemkin for her
latest venture, this time just as Shilpa Ray.
Shilpa Ray – Last Year’s Savage (2015)
Shilpa Ray
has led many different lives. She founded a band called Beat the Devil,
an experiment in grafting punk sounds onto Indian time signatures,
which disbanded not long after its eponymous EP in 2006. She then became
the lead singer of Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers, a more
blues-oriented garage rock band that split up in 2011. In the aftermath
of a second breakup, Ray spent time touring with Nick Cave and the Bad
Seeds, releasing new solo music along the way. Eventually, she teamed up
with pedal steel guitarist/bassist Jon “Catfish” DeLorme,
guitarist/bassist Alistair Paxton, and drummer Russ Lemkin for her
latest venture, this time just as Shilpa Ray.
