The Mukherjee Development is playing at Studenterhuset!

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An indie, rock and folk band that encourages both immersion and celebration in a busy world.

“The Danish Coldplay, just better than the original”, was the recent five-star concert review of the band The Mukherjee Development from GAFFA. The name “Mukherjee” is Indian and belongs to the Danish/American/Indian lead singer Oscar Mukherjee, whose Californian upbringing makes the band’s English lyrics flow effortlessly and freely. The band also consists of experienced forces, known from Jonah Blacksmith and Peter Sommer & Tiggerne, among others, and who in The Mukherjee Development unfold with musical superiority and creativity.

“Through our music and storytelling, we want to counter polarization and instead encourage community – both with each other and with our audience. We want to create a space for creativity and presence in a time with a slightly too fast pace”, says Oscar Mukherjee. And The Mukherjee Development has the ability to fill a room with presence and dynamism like few others. When they take the stage, they deliver timeless guitar noise rock à la Neil Young and The War On Drugs, hand-played folk/pop songs like Sheryl Crows and The Cardigans’, and understated and fragile indie ballads like those heard by Pheobe Bridgers.

The Mukherjee Development will release a new album in August 2025 – the third in a row since the band’s debut in 2022. Oscar Mukherjee has previously been the primary songwriter, but on the upcoming album the band has written the majority of the songs together. You can hear it. Here, grand Brit-pop melodies, hand-played indie/folk songs and solid rock meet, whose variation and coherence create an exuberant synergy.

The lyrics are characterized by a sharp-sighted surrealism, which gives room for the listener's interpretation, and which brings a poetic clarity to the album's major themes: love, friendship and the search for identity in a time characterized by uncertainty and major political challenges that exceed the capacity of the individual. When the album's more experimental tracks play, theme and music merge into a higher unity.

The Mukherjee Development has performed live in Go' Morgen Danmark on TV2, played over 150 concerts, including at NorthSide, Tønder Festival and SmukFest, and received airplay on DR P4, P5 and P6. Oscar Mukherjee was nominated for a Carl Prize as "composer of the year" in 2024 and has previously won a DMA.

The Mukherjee Development: Oscar Mukherjee: vocals and guitar Jakob Holm: guitar Søren Bigum: guitar, pedal steel and keyboards Henrik Poulsen: bass Søren Poulsen: drums