Career
Under the name Ramasutra, he released his self-produced debut album The East Infection in 1999 for which he won a Félix Award in 2000 (amongst three nominations including "Best Arranger"), two Mimi Awards for "Album of the Year" and "Best Live Show", and a Juno Award nomination for "Best Alternative Album". He followed it up with El Pipo Del Taxi in 2003 that won him a Mimi award for "Best Producer".
Under his full name and on his own label, Semprini Records, he released the score for the award winning documentary by Joseph Hillel and Patrick Demers entitled Regular or Super (2004), as "Steel and Glass".
In addition, Ram has scored several films and documentaries including Soft Shell Man ("Un crabe dans la tete") (2001) - for which he won a Jutra Award in 2002, Camping Sauvage (2004), Familia (2005), Bombay Calling (2005), Karsh Is History (2009) - for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award in 2010 and Patrick Demers' critically acclaimed debut Jaloux (2011) for which he earned a Genie Award nomination in 2012 for "Best Original Score". He also composed the opening theme music for Nicolas Roeg's Puffball (2008). His television work includes the ten part series Web Dreams, themes for Tout Le Monde En Parle, Casting, Women Warriors, Comme Par Magie - for which he was nominated for a Prix Gémaux award in 2010 and commercials for Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and Cadbury.
In 2011, Borcar composed film scores for Goon, directed by Michael Dowse and starring Liev Schreiber, Marc-André Grondin, Jay Baruchel, Seann William Scott and Alison Pill; the Belgian-Quebec co-production Un nuage dans un verre d'eau directed by Srinath Samarasinghe and starring Anamaria Marinca, and "The American Tiger" - a David Suzuki The Nature of Things documentary.
In 2012, Borcar composed the original music for the trailer of Martin Villeneuve's science fiction film Mars et Avril, wrote the music for the NFB's ambitious interactive site Here At Home' and completed the full score for orchestra for Manon Briand's feature-film Liverpool.
He recently completed the original score for Yan Lanouette Turgeon's debut feature film Roche Papier Ciseaux starring Roy Dupuis, released in February 2013.
Ram's production work includes not only his personal albums and soundtracks but other artists as well. In 2005 he produced debut albums for the Brazilian funk band Gaia, the indo-jazz outfit Catherine Potter's Duniya Project, Bulgarian gypsy band Kaba Horo and the Montreal tex-mex electro duo Call Me Poupee and Voivod.
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