On Ranjit Barot - "I am both excited and honoured at getting the chance to working in John's band now with the excellent musician Ranjit Barot. Ranjit covers the broad spectrum - as a composer, film writer, singer and producer also of his own excellent music, and of course as the great drumming exponent he is on a "western" drum kit."
On Bada Boom - " Fusion and classical Indian rhythms merge on this spectacular confluence of styles."
- Bill Milkowski / JazzTimes
On Bada Boom - " ……Then, suddenly without warning, the rest of the track knocked me on my butt as this amazing, powerful, monster piece got underway. This is a serious blend of "East" meets "West" where neither is compromised….. We need to keep in mind that Ranjit himself is driving all these pieces with his drums, keyboards and vocals…."
- Raul Amador / Bazz Musician Magazine
"Bada Boom is an exhilarating and ambitious offering, bringing together a string section, a horn section and an absolutely spectacular lineup of musicians……..When such musicians come together, and when such rich and diverse musical traditions fuse under the guidance of Barot, it is indeed a beautiful collision."
- Ian Patterson / All About Jazz
On the New Universe Music Festival performance - "There was a lot of virtuosity going throughout Barot's performance but never in excess and never doing anything but serving the music."
- John Kelman / All About Jazz
On Bada Boom - "It's a Big Bang alright-bada in Hindi means big-a project of some ambition which unites the finest Indian musicians with some of the best from the jazz and fusion worlds. Together, they conspire to articulate Indian drummer Ranjit Barot's primal scream as a composer, and it's a spectacular and beautiful explosion………this duality makes for a powerful musical cocktail, whereby diverse rhythmic, melodic and harmonic elements coexist as naturally as the planets orbit in around each other-different worlds yet inextricably linked."
- Ian Patterson / All About Jazz
On Bada Boom - "He was the rhythmic center of John McLaughlin's Floating Point (Abstract Logix, 2008).....The two artists clearly share common ground, but come to it from near-diametrically opposite ends of the broadest possible spectrum of musical and cultural upbringing…. Bada Boom's far-reaching combination of thoughtful writing, outstanding performances, and a cultural purview that goes beyond the more obvious mix of Indian tradition and western jazz interests. At once exhilaratingly cathartic and transcendentally beautiful, Bada Boom is an ambitious debut-fusion at the deepest, and truest, sense of the word."
- John Kelman / All About Jazz
"Ranjit Barot’s assembly of musicians and music in Bada Boom is like a dream wish-list and it all works spectacularly!"
- Karthik / Milliblog
"Bada Boom is a truly spectacular debut album from Ranjit Barot, a long-overdue promotion from arranger to composer carried out in style. And a fitting tribute to his mentors John McLaughlin and Zakir Hussain."
- VIP / MusicAloud
On Bada Boom - "I found that the music made me catch my breath and I'm still finding that to be the case.....
I don't think I can say enough about this one. It is something not to be missed. Maestro Barot has crafted an ornate and lustrous musical jewel."
- Grego Applegate Edwards / Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog
"Although he is known for being a virtuosic drummer, what becomes apparent from Bada Boom is Barot’s knack for melodic structure. With a compositional process that elevates the players around him, Barot successfully blends the rhythmic and harmonic traditions of classical Indian music with the innovation of improvisation of rock-infused jazz."
- World in Stereo : NewSoundTack.net
"Overall, Barot’s debut album is a self-contained marvel which offers stimulating imagery, shaped and transformed by the drummer’s innate gift of finding the underlying humanity and warmth underneath the percussive layers of a tune. In a sense, Barot has found his voice by shifting his focus from the outside world of collaboration, and back within the inner collective glow which has always seemed to ignite his own playing. And on Bada Boom, that certainly lights his way."
- Randy Ray / Jambands.com
"With the dazzling album Bada Boom, Ranjit Barot proves that he is an essential musician in the international fusion jazz scene and a new creative force in world music explorations."
- A. Romero / World Music Central.com
