"There is vorticist movement in percussion colorist Bengt Berger's music. Like a whirling fluid mass slingshot around the world - although anchored in the broad folk forms of Swedish music - it sucks in the dancing and chanting, moaning and prancing rhythmic Hindustani and Carnatic music of India and West Africa, especially that of Ghana." - Raul d'Gama, All About Jazz
In January 2016 Beches Brew played concerts in Chennai, Mumbai and Pune together with some of today's greatest musicians in the Karnatic and Hindustani traditions and last October the wonderful Akkarai Sisters accompanied by Jayachandra Rao and Shreesundarkumar on mridangam and khanjira paid us a return visit. My old teacher Ewe Master Drummer Doe Kushiator from Ghana also joined. We did a two week tour and had a great time, making good music together. We hope we will be able to bring them back again, how about August?
At the end of August we will release a live album from the October concerts.
Beches Brew will of course play without our foreign guests as well. We number from 3 to 10 musicians depending on money and other worldly circumstances. You will surely enjoy hearing these great musicians: Staffan Svensson, Thomas Gustafsson, Stefan Bellnäs, Max Schultz, Livet Nord, Jonas Knutsson, Sir Thomas Jäderlund, Lise-Lotte Norelius, Göran Klinghagen, Bengt Berger
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