Like a River to the Sea
The debut album from kirtan artist Jahnavi Harrison – composer, arranger and principal voice of the collection ‒ takes kirtan to a place ripe for genre-crossing.
14 September 2015
Review
Samyoga
Although this internationally-acclaimed company is well-known to US audiences and has graced both the Edinburgh Fringe and international festivals in recent years, this was, inexplicably, their first London performance.
23 June 2015
Bayadère – The Ninth Life
This was a work of depth and substance, educative and visually stunning. It was political. It was a commentary on Petipa’s 1877 ballet La Bayadère, a subversion of it and a positioning of contemporary dance in the present moment.
23 June 2015
Forgot Your Password?
The dancing was good and clear and the stagecraft was impressive. The multiple identities on stage created a disturbing, sometimes eerie effect, as when the live dancer stood before – or was it behind, or within? – her digitally-projected self.
23 June 2015
Tagore: New Voices and Decreasing Infinity
Co-presented by Kadam/Pulse and the Tagore Centre, this varied, ambitious and yet intimate evening of work was in large part inspired by the work – and in particular the poetry – of the incredibly influential Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore.
23 June 2015
The King of Ghosts
For me, the Queen Elizabeth Hall has always resembled the interior of a vast spaceship. And tonight the audience was transported not to outer space but to a kind of parallel universe where shadowy ghosts from the forests of Bengal dance to the rhythm of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
23 June 2015
Pulse of the World
Two days before his Alchemy concert, Zakir Hussain Qureshi and I did some catching-up before the Pulse interview. At one stage, talk turned to what musician and audience really recall of a concert by way of detail
23 June 2015
Minds to Lose / The Singh Project
This year’s Alchemy Festival contained some tantalising treasures to be discovered in multiple venues across London’s Southbank Centre. One ventured to… Read More
23 June 2015
Carnatic Beatbox
The concert debut of Carnatic Beatbox began with two first-half appetisers for the second set’s main course with the two principal musicians – Jyotsna Srikanth and her violinistics and Shlomo and his beatboxing – laying out their tables before the main course.
25 March 2015
Amjad Ali Khan with Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan
Let’s be honest, it’s not often that a stalwart of Indian classical music will make it beyond London when they do visit our little island. However, when news spread that Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and his sons were coming to Leeds, a dedicated community of music-lovers arrived full of anticipation.
25 March 2015