Joi Barua

Albums and singles

Barua, along with his band mates of Joi, launched the album titled Joi: Looking out of the Window on 21 December 2010. The album contains 8 tracks and all of them features vocals of Barua. The songs are a blend of rock, soul, folk and worldbeat. The band also released the first music video filmed on Aikon Baaikon, a track from the album. Apart from Barua, the band members are Pawan Rasaily (lead guitar), Ibson Lal Baruah (rhythm guitar), Manas Chowdhary (bass guitar) and Partho Goswami (drums).

In 2011, he sang the Assamese song "Khiriki" for Hengool Theatre. In June 2013, Joi and his band released an Assamese single, Pitol Soku from the documentary Riders of the Mist. The documentary features the bareback jockeys of Jorhat and Sivasagar districts of the Assam and the song pays an homage to them. A blend of Rock and Worldbeat, the song and its promotional video was unveiled by John Abraham and Vishal Dadlani.^[3]

In 2014, he collaborated with Shruti Haasan and composed an Assamese-Tamil fusion song titled Prithibi Ghure and performed together in an INKtalks live event. The Tamil lyrics was penned by Kamal Haasan, while the Assamese lyrics were written by Ibson Lal Baruah.^[4]

Joi released a number of singles during 2016 and 2017, under the project name 'Pride'. These songs with their videos portrays stories from Assam. While 'Rabha' narrated an incident of the legendary Bishnu Rabha, collaborated with American saxophonist George Brooks,^[5] 'Na Jujor Ronuwa' stressed on the lesser-known, but the largest tribe within Assam, the Koch-Rajbongshi's.

'Aai O Aai' is a festive song released on 2025, featuring a collaboration with Lakhya . The track, with lyrics by Sagar Saurabh and music production by Pawan Rasaily, captures the essence of home and the colorful season, blending nostalgia with vibrant melodies.

Movies and documentaries

In 2015, Barua composed the track Dusokute for the film Margarita With A Straw.^[6][7] In the same year, Joi composed the songs & scored background music for a movie produced by John Abraham through John Abraham Entertainment Private Limited.^[8] The movie, titled 'Banana' was Directed by Sajid Ali.^[9]

In 2016, Joi released another single titled "Riders of the Mist" from the documentary by the same name.^[10][11] This song was launched first in the music channel VH1 and was then circulated online. Joi composed the background score for a short film Playing Priya and sang its title track with Jonita Gandhi. Titled "Meetha Zeher",^[12] the song comes in the end credits of the movie.^[13]

In 2018, Joi co-composed the music for the movie Laila Majnu along with Niladri Kumar.^[14] Written by Imtiaz Ali and Sajid Ali, the movie was directed by Sajid Ali.

Joi composed a song titled 'Subeh Dekh Li'^[15] for the Indian-American production The Illegal in 2019. Ankit Tiwari rendered his voice to the song.

International collaborations

Joi is the co-composer of the original songs for the Album 'Lim Fantasy of Companionship for Piano and Orchestra'.^[16] Conceptualized on an original story by Dr. Susan Lim and Christina Teenz Tan,^[17] this is a collaborative venture with musicians across continents. A conversation with Dr. Lim at an INK Talks conference in 2017 at Singapore, where Joi performed and showcased his song 'Rabha' for the first time^[18] led to the project. French musicians Manu Martin^[19][20] and Matthieu Eymard,^[21] along with Ron Danziger^[22] from Australia, co-composed the original songs that form the 21 vignettes of the thirty-three minute album.

Working towards a future musical told from the intersections of Science & Artificial Life, the music production has been centered around and recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London.^[23] London Symphony Orchestra, London Voices, Pianist Tedd Joselson^[24] and conductor Arthur Fagen,^[25] are the principal collaborators to this album.^[26][22][16]