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2019-03-16 11:17:00
Taking the musical road less travelled
[…] EMI demands reissuing. All the Rameau recordings were captured at concerts, and the sound is consistently and convincingly transparent. The Suites were compiled by Frans Brüggen from the orchestral sections of Rameau's operas, and it goes without saying the performances are exemplary. My admiration for the Chemirani percussion dynasty is reflected in multiple appearances by them here. The latest project from percussion powerhouse Keyvan Chemirani is his Rhythm Academy line up which includes Prabhu Edouard (tablas), Vincent Segal (cello), Socratis Sinopoulos (Cretan lyra) and the other members of the Trio Chemirani. I have had the pleasure of hearing Prabhu Edouard play several times, notably at the Les Orientales Festival in the Loire Valley and on Jordi Savall's Francisco Javier project in Paris. Several of Prabhu Edouard's recent solo releases have verged on the dreaded World Music blancmange, but Keyvan Chemirani's leadership ensures that this new CD avoids the […]
2019-01-11 18:25:00
Music as a window into diverse cultures
[…] China, Granada, Mali and finally back to Morocco where he died. CD2 was recorded in November 2016 again at a concert performance, but in the more familiar environment of la Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie in Paris. The instrumental and vocal sound is more focussed, and although the narrations are still there - in French this time - they are less intrusive. The musicians also seem more comfortable on familiar ground, and Daud Sadozai (sarod) and Prabhu Edouard's (tabla) rendering of the raga Muddugare Yashoda is particularly noteworthy. The second uncomfortable accommodation forced on the Ibn Battuta project is the compromise between principle and practice. On An Overgrown Path has for many years championed Jordi Savall's both as a musician and humanitarian. But in 2014 I expressed my concern about him forming an artistic alliance with Abu Dhabi. My post quoted an assessment by Human Rights Watch of very worrying humanitarian […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-09-27 14:05:21
The Museum Where You Can Hold A Human Brain In Your Hands
A visit to the Brain Museum at India’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore, where guests can see and touch whole brains, slices of brain, healthy brains, and brains with all manner of pathologies. (One is full of holes made by a tapeworm.) Writes Maya Prabhu, “I feel like I’m in some […]
2018-09-04 08:48:00
Finding music within the sound of silence
In his French-language memoir Devenir Invincible Michel Guay writes of India that "In this confluence of cultures and history, I finally found my own narrative". Born in Halifax, Canada in 1961, Michel Guay left home at sixteen to travel the world. His travels took him to India, where he studied sitar and voice with distinguished teachers in Varanasi for ten years. He is now based in Paris where he teaches, and his album Song of Benares, recorded with tabla master and Jordi Savall sideman Prabhu Edouard, featured here in 2013. In his memoir Michel Guay lists Paul Horn Oregon, and Jean-Luc Ponty among his early musical influences; which makes it my kind of book. But Devenir Invincible is far more than a rites of passage chronicle. It is the priceless story of an artist's exploration of the path leading from Āhat Nāda - audible sound - to Anāhat Nāda […]