Circle of Sound
The UK-based duo of Soumik Datta and Bernhard Schimpelsberger is an electro-acoustic hybrid with varying currents flowing through their music.
15 June 2012
Review – Music Performance
Celebrating his 10th Decade
Let’s begin with a confession. Let’s lay some cards on the table. Attending every Ravi Shankar concert had no longer been a must. The reasons for that were complex and varied.
9 December 2011
Ecstatic Journey: Music From Around the Sufi World
Ecstatic Journey, the last night of Barbican’s Transcender festival, presented a taster of Sufi music from some outstanding musicians from Morocco, Pakistan, India and Indonesia.
9 December 2011
BBC Proms, Prom 17: World Routes Academy
Aruna Sairam’s evening BBC Proms was announced as the first entirely Carnatic billing in the Proms’ 116-year history; indeed there is no finer torch-bearer for the subcontinent’s southern art music system.
19 September 2011
‘A Tribute to Ustad Ali Akbar Khan’
What amount of courage and focus does it take to get up on stage and perform?
17 June 2011
Serene Morning Ragas
Is it possible to go to any concert without expectations? Arriving at the Darbar Festival, expectations of a memorable concert were high.
17 June 2011
O Shakuntala!
Debashish Bhattacharya plays a trinity of so-called ‘slide guitars’ made to his own specifications. At his London concert in Milapfest’s Colours of India season, he played two – the biggest or Chaturangui and the smallest.
14 September 2010
Kala Ramnath
Kala Ramnath belongs to a violin dynasty that embraces – and holds apart – both Indian classical systems. She chose the Hindustani system.
14 September 2010
Shraddhanjali
Since his death in February 2000, the London-based Alla Rakha Foundation has been putting on yearly tributes for the tabla nawaaz Alla Rakha.
7 June 2010
Soumik Datta and Shivkumar Sharma
A final evening double-bill of Soumik Datta and Shivkumar Sharma at the Darbar Festival
7 June 2010