As a part of the Kolkata International Music Festival – World Music, Song of Soul organised an afternoon chat and jamming session with three fascinatingly diverse groups. They have individually travelled the world, met people from different cultures and gathered knowledge, which they shared with an enthusiastic audience.
18th Nov, 2011 at 3:00 pm in association with Calcutta School of Music
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Rain Sultanov, Yasef & Eyvazov
Today, only a select few musicians carry the name of Azerbaijani jazz to other countries. Rain Sultanov is one leading saxophone player doing just that. Similarly, not many have gone through such an eventfully rich, and sometimes stormy, period of development. He is certainly a musician’s musician - appreciated by those finely tuned to the high est art. Rain’s music is thoughtful and suffused with significance.Rain Sultanov along with one of the finest oud players of Azerbaijan demonstrated and spoke on Azerbaijani music form ‘MUGHAM”.
20th Nov, 2011 at 5:00 pm in association with Weavers Studio Centre for Arts
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Robin Sukhadia's
special focus on the musical traditions and rhythms of south Asia informs his approach to musical arrangement and composition on a wide range of concert, film, and album productions. For the past seven years, Robin has traveled internationally on behalf of project Ahimsa an organization committed to empowering impoverished youth through music education. Robin conducted a listening session giving students an audio overview of major trends in world music, with a special emphasis on how Indian classical music is being integrated into jazz, latin percussion, western classical music, African music, pop music and hip hop.
Boi Akih
from Netherlands, has Monica Akihary on vocals, Niels Brouwer on guitar and Sandip Bhattachara on the tabla, and
the three of them have developed a distinctive repertoire for the ensemble. The combination of European, Indian, Indonesian, African, Sunda and Bali cultures gives the band an unique sound and colour in the current musical milieu. You are bound to be drawn into the band's own world, alternately sparse and fiercely rhythmic.
