The Blue Frog Club is Mumbai’s
premier live music performance space. Housed in a 6,000 square
foot defunct warehouse in Lower Parel, the club blends acoustic
excellence and lush, opulent ambience design with live performances,
inventive cuisine and an excellent bar.
Live music runs 6 nights a week, EVERY
week, with international artists featured regularly. Genres of music
range from jazz, blues, funk, soul and afro/latin to electronic, club,
rock, folk and lots more. Come discover something new.
Club
Tech - We found a large, defunct industrial
warehouse in the old mill district in central Mumbai, and wanted to
convert it into a complex of sound recording studios and an acoustically
outstanding live music club. The club needed to provide musicians and
audiences with a superb auditory experience while also accommodating
fine dining, drinking and dancing space.
Several firms pitched ideas to us, but
Contemporary Urban Design, Mumbai — led by architect Kapil Gupta — won
our hearts (and the project). Their design strategy was to functionally
blend the acoustic, spatial and performative characteristics of a
traditional opera house with the demands of a full-fledged restaurant
and bar while preserving the structural beauty of the old warehouse.
Critical performative demands on the
design were clear sight lines from seated diners and patrons standing at
the bar to the stage, given how crowded the lounge would be over
weekends and popular performances. The design resolved this by using a
“raked” section, which allows the eye level of diners and standing
patrons to be distributed across staggered platforms that increase in
height away from the stage.
A grid of circular, mahogany-panelled
dining “pods” occupy these platforms and seat between 4-10 people. Their
geometric outlay maintains uninterrupted views of the stage as well as a
comfortable distance between diners irrespective of how crowded the rest
of the club gets. A gently undulating, glowing acrylic resin surface
over the pods retains the presence of the architecture amidst a
state-of-the-art sound and light show at Blue Frog.
The elevated pods are arranged,
amphitheatre-style, around a large circular floor that can accommodate
standing/dancing patrons; the floor can also function as a 360 degree
stage for performances requiring an intimate viewing experience. At one
end of the floor is a large, raised stage for main performances.
Visual coherence is established by the
propagation and repetition of the circular grid as a design language
across a host of details, from dimpled acoustic panels on the walls to
the back-bar display.
Studios -
Blue Frog
Soundlabs bring together top-of-the-line technology and client comfort
in one sweet space. Sip espresso, surf the web while you wait on a take.
Some of our
esteemed clients include A.R.Rehman, John Mclaughlin, Richard Bona,
Electronic Arts, almost the whole fraternity of advertising/feature film
production houses like Nirvana Films, Corcoise Films, Ramesh Deo
Productions, Good Morning films & TV production companies like CNBC &
Walt Disney amongst many others.
Meet with
clients to review and discuss your project in our comfortable,
fully-equipped conference room. Get the best bang for your buck from our
world-class equipment, top-notch engineers and quick turnaround times.
Welcome to
the Blue Frog Soundlabs
Studios Facilities
Contemporary Art Gallery
- Browse at your leisure in our gallery space featuring some of the best
examples of contemporary art you are likely to see anywhere.
The Club
- At the end of the day if you want to put on your party clothes and
head next door to the Club, look no further - our loos are equipped with
showers, towels and all the bathing paraphenalia you need to start the
night at The Frog!
The soundlabs
operate 7 days a week around the clock and each lab comes with a
dedicated engineer.
Wi-fi is
available throughout the space
Conference Room
- There is a fully equipped conference room which can be booked for
presentations and meetings. The idea is that you should be able to
conduct a full day’s work in a comfortable, work and play friendly
environment while your recording is going on. Additionally you could
work from our semi-private pods in the foyer, each equipped with jacks
for charging your laptops and mobile phones.
Studio Tech -
We have four fully-equipped soundlabs for all your
recording needs.
Labs A & B are larger, fitted with SSL
AWS900 consoles, a stereo setup of Dynaudio M3 monitoring and a 5.1
setup using Dynaudio Air 15s.
Labs C and D are smaller, with custom
Manley consoles and a stereo setup of custom Dynaudio C3 monitors. The
recording areas have variable acoustic treatment to allow each room’s
reverberation time to be changed for different setups.
This is a space that’s been conceived
of by composers, for composers. It’s a workplace designed not just for
capturing music, but for creating it. There’s no better place to unleash
your musical genius in all its glory - with results to show.
