Artist.......: Sarathy Korwar
Album........: Day To Day
Label........: Ninja Tune
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: ZENDNL230
Source.......: WEB
Rip.date.....: 2016-07-13
Str.date.....: 2016-00-00
Quality......: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://https://ninjatune.net/release/sarathy-korwar/day-to-day
track title time
1. Bhajan 4:43
2. Bismillah 8:05
3. Dreaming 4:35
4. Eyes Closed 3:30
5. Hail 3:49
6. Indefinite Leave To Remain 5:49
7. Karam 5:35
8. Lost Parade 1:12
9. Mawra 4:58
Runtime 42:16
Size 97.38
Release Notes:
The extraordinary debut album from percussionist, drummer and producer Sarathy
Korwar - Day To Day - fuses traditional folk music of the Sidi community in
India (combining East African, Sufi and Indian influences) with jazz and
electronics. It's a collaborative release by Ninja Tune with The Steve Reid
Foundation - a charitable trust established by Brownswood / Gilles Peterson with
the dual objective of helping musicians in crisis and also supporting emerging
talent. Sarathy is an alumnus of the Foundation's development program, mentored
by Four Tet, Emanative, Floating Points, Koreless and Gilles Peterson - all
trustees of the foundation.
"Sarathy instantly caught my attention when he said he wanted to make an album
that embraced both Indian folk music and jazz - two worlds that have had a big
influence on me. His album succeeds in bringing these things together in an
elegant way, but it's his own style and ideas that come through the most in the
music. Refreshingly different, this is a deep and powerful listening
experience." Four Tet
The Steve Reid Foundation commemorates the life and legacy of legendary
percussionist/drummer Steve Reid. It is fitting that Sarathy's album follows the
lineage and spirit of Reid who himself left New York and took on a spiritual
pilgrimage through Africa in the mid-1960s. For three years he journeyed through
West Africa, playing with people along the way, including Fela Kuti, Guy Warren
and Randy Weston. The musical roots and routes of the Black Atlantic have been
discussed and documented extensively, but Sarathy is highlighting a different
dispersal of people in the other direction, from East Africa to India. The Sidis
travelled to India from Africa as merchants, sailors, indentured servants and
mercenaries from as far back as 628 AD and have settled in India ever since.
Conceived on an extended trip to rural Gujarat, followed by sessions at Dawn
Studios in Pune, Sarathy made field recordings of The Sidi Troupe of Ratanpur
whose vocals and percussion form the backbone of Day To Day. The troupe features
five drummers - their polyrhythms reflect their African heritage, in contrast to
traditional Indian drummers who play in unison. Likewise, the Malunga bows
(there are only 4 or 5 players in India) bear a striking resemblance to those
found in Africa.
"The record is about how we individually and collectively live from day to day.
The everyday rituals and tasks that bind us together, it's a celebration of the
trivial and mundane," explains Sarathy. The colourful handmade rag quilts that
the Sidis make using everyday fabrics serve as a perfect metaphor for the
record: "The Sidi women make these amazing collages of colour using everyday
rags," he says. "That's how I see this album".
Born in the US, Sarathy Korwar grew up in Ahmedabad and Chennai in India. He
began playing tabla aged 10 but was also drawn to the American music that he
heard on the radio and that leaked through the doorway of his local jazz music
shop, Ahmad Jamal were John Coltrane early discoveries. At 17, Sarathy moved to
Pune to study for a degree in Environmental Science, but instead dedicated his
time to music: practicing tabla under the tutelage of Rajeev Devasthali,
translating his skills to the Western drumkit and playing as a session musician.
Finishing his studies, Sarathy began to think about pursuing a career in music
and moved to London, where he trained as a classical tabla player under the
guidance of Sanju Sahai and graduated with a MMus in Performance from SOAS
(School of Oriental and African Studies) focusing on the adaptation of Indian
classical rhythmic material to non-Indian percussion instruments.
Working the angles in London's jazz scene, Sarathy connected with Shabaka
Hutchings (Sons of Kemet, The Comet is Coming), Cara Stacey (Kit Records) and
played with clarinettist Arun Ghosh. He was, however, itching to create under
his own name and he started researching and formulating the concept for Day To
Day and planning a trip to India to record the Sidis. It was late in 2014 when
Sarathy heard about the Steve Reid Foundation. He applied with a three-minute
video explaining his vision for the record and was accepted onto the project to
be mentored by the foundation's patrons: Four Tet, Floating Points, Gilles
Peterson, Koreless and Nick Woodmansey (Emanative).
"Day To Day is an exceptional debut by this multi-percussive artist fusing jazz,
electronic and Indian harmonics." - Gilles Peterson
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