Inspirational collaboration
RAGA ECSTACY: PURBAYAN CHATTERJEE AND TALVIN SINGH LIVE AT THE LYRIC THEATRE
SA gets a taste of Indian classical and fusion music.
Raga Ecstasy, a concert of Indian classical and fusion music, is on at The Lyric on March 29. Raga Ecstasy features sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee from India as well as tabla player and producer Talvin Singh from the UK.
Purbayan’s music is inspired by the sound of the late Pandit Nikhil Banerjee and combines the tone and richness of the Nikhil Banerjee style and a contemporary touch of his own urban sensitivity.
“South Africa, like India, has innate rhythm and music all over. Indian classical music and jazz is so similar, making South Africa an obvious destination for us to share and spread the tradition of Indian classical music,” says Chatterjee.
“I am delighted and greatly honoured to be accompanied on this tour by the genius Talvin Singh, somebody who has created a whole new movement and genre of music in the UK. He is a tabla player, producer and composer of exceptional quality and I am happy we will be able to share both Indian classical and fusion music on this tour to South Africa.”
Singh is a producer, composer and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass. Singh is generally considered involved with an electronica sub-genre called Asian underground, and more recently as Indian and Asian electronica. After collaborating with Siouxsie and the Banshees and Björk in the early 1990s, Singh released his debut album and has since collaborated with a variety of acts, including Madonna and Massive Attack. Singh has also collaborated with Michael Brook on a remix of the works of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan for Real World Records.
Don’t miss these two Indian music legends live in concert. – Citizen reporter
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