Over the past 30 years ago, Clinton Cerejo sung jingles, moved on to producing some of Vishal Bhardwaj’s finest soundtracks, and then became a fusion rock expert with Coke Studio India, delivering some of its most angst-bitten songs such as Baina and Mauje Naina.
Cerejo’s latest avatar is as the frontman of the electropop duo Shor Police alongside regular collaborator, the singer Bianca Gomes. Shor Police’s music is unlike Cerejo’s previous work. Its Hindi and English tracks make for bouncy pop that rarely run over four minutes. Two am party music is a good description for what Shor Police does.
This isn’t new territory for Cerejo, who said his production work on Beedi Jalaile (Omkara) and Dhan Te Nan (Kaminey), was “as pop as it could get”. His short-lived band Ananthaal, of which Gomes was a member, attempted to condense the sweeping passion of his Coke Studio sound into crisp radio-friendly tunes.
“Guys who grew up listening to Coke Studio were in…