Indian classical and fusion music at The Lyric
Raga Ecstasy, a concert of Indian classical and fusion music featuring sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee from India as well as tabla player and producer Talvin Singh from the UK, will be performed at The Lyric, Gold Reef City on 29 March, 2015.
Chatterjee's music is inspired by the sound of the late Pandit Nikhil Banerjee and combines the tone and richness of the Nikhil Banerjee style and a contemporary touch of his own urban sensitivity. Chatterjee said: "South Africa, like India, has innate rhythm and music all over. Indian classical music and jazz is so similar, making South Africa an obvious destination for us to share and spread the tradition of Indian classical music. I am delighted and greatly honoured to be accompanied on this tour by the genius Talvin Singh, somebody who has literally created a whole new movement and genre of music in the UK. He is a tabla player, producer and composer of exceptional quality and I am happy that we will be able to share both Indian Classical and Fusion music on this tour to South Africa."
Asian underground
Singh is a producer, composer and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass. He is generally considered involved with an electronica sub-genre called Asian underground, and, more recently, as Indian and/or Asian electronica. After collaborating with Siouxsie and the Banshees and Björk in the early 1990s, Singh released his debut album 'OK', which received the Mercury Music Prize in 1999. Singh has since collaborated with a variety of acts, including Madonna and Massive Attack. He has also collaborated with Michael Brook on a remix of the works of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan for Real World Records.
Tickets range from R200 to R350. Bookings at Computicket or The Lyric Box Office on +27 (0)11 248 5000 or www.goldreefcity.co.za.
