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Beches Indian Brew completed
Country & Easterns nyhetsbrev November 2016
With a last concert at the Umeå Jazz Festival, the one year long Beches Indian Brew project came to a successful end. It started in december 2015 when Beches Brew went to India to give concerts in Chennai, Pune and Mumbai together with some of todays greatest Karnatic and Hindustani musicians backed by generous support from Swedish Performing Arts Agency Musikverket.
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It started in Chennai
After rehearsals our first concert was held in Chennai where our collaboration with J.B. Srutisagar, Sornalatha Akkarai, N. Amrit and V. Suresh was highly appreciated, even by the quite conservative classic Karnatic rasikas. Here you see our group after the Shree Krishna Ghana Sabha concert on January 3.
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then concerts in Mumbai and Pune
From Chennai we went to Mumbai where we joined forces with bansuri (flute) great Nityanand Haldipur and my tabla gurubhai Sadanand Naimpalli. We played together at Talmakiwadi and at Tata Institute of Social Sciences to excited audiences and also gave a workshop at True School of Music and played at the Blue Frog clubs. Here we are after the TISS concert.
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In October 2016 four great Karnatic vidwans came to Sweden for the project's finale.
Akkarai Sisters, the wonderful violinist/singers Akkarai Subhalakshmi and Akkarai Sornalatha together with K. U. Jayachandra Rao, mridangam and B. Shree Sundarkumar on khanjira joined BECHES INDIAN BREW in a lovely series of concerts that started at Stockholm Jazz Festival and via concerts in Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Malmö and Kristianstad ended at the Umeå Jazz Festival. (For a few days more you can hear our live broadcast from the Swedish Radio - we come on after three and a half hours!)
Karnatic workshops and concerts were held at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg. Pure Karnatic concerts were also given in Norrköping and Umeå.
As an extra bonus my old teacher from Ghana, Senior Master Drummer Doe Kushiator of the Ewe-cult was able to join us for the Swedish concerts. Here we all are during rehearsals before the first concert:
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Photos, videos, reviews and the future
Don't miss the videos at our YouTube playlist around our project. Everything will be found at the BECHES INDIAN BREW page at Country & Eastern. A lot of what we did was recorded by Sigge Krantz so we hope to find a cd in that material for release in the spring. And hopefully a Karnatic one with the Akkarai Sisters as well. The videos were shot by Jöns Jönsson who followed us, more will come.
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Today! New music to be made!
There is a small place in Stockholm by the name of Rökridån where experiments of various kinds are being made. Tonight (monday Nov 14) it will open at 7 p.m. and one hour later there will be a first musical meeting between violinist Kat-T Hernandez, pianist Lisa Ullén, bassist Nikke Ström and percussionist Bengt Berger. This unprepared concert can not happen again, so please try to find the place in Slakthusområdet.
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