The US-born, Indian-raised, London-based jazz drummer, producer, composer and bandleader Sarathy Korwar has released his new ambient and groovy new single 'Remember To Look Out For The Signs'. The song from Korwar's album 'KALAK', coming out November 11th, 2022.
"I felt a little bit of pressure: 'This is our first show in a while, I hope we’re not too rusty'. But I think actually the audiences were equally rusty: everyone was coming into it with a kind of fascination and curiosity and openness that really lent itself well to the evening" - Sarathy Korwar told the Guardian about his return to gigs. The London paper also talked to Mogwai, Corinne Baily Rae, Sleaford Mods, Jayda G, and others.
UK electronic-jazz drummer Moses Boyd and drill rapper Digga D are the most nominated artists for this year’s AIM Independent Music Awards, with three nominations each. Electronic music trailblazers Flying Lotus and Floating Points, as well as Polish pianist Hania Rani and psychedelic R'n'B singer Greentea Peng are vying for two awards each. The most attractive category, Best Independent Album, is filled with interesting releases: Brooke Bentham 'Everyday Nothing', Everything Is Recorded 'Friday Forever', Kidjo Ojua 'The Mixtape', Kim Gordon 'No Home Record', Laura Marling 'Song For Our Daughter', Moses Boyd 'Dark Matter', Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 'Ghosteen', The Ninth Wave 'Infancy', Phoenix Da Icefire & Husky Brown 'Panacea' and Sarathy Korwar 'More Arriving'.
Saxophone player Alabaster DePlume changes the line-up of his band before every show to keep him on his toes - “It’s so we don’t have the time to be prepared. When you remove preparation people can’t hide, they have to be authentic and present" - as he's told the Quietus. He has released his new album 'To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1', with no vocal tracks, obviously, because someone had told him - "I put your music on, and it was perfect, but then you started shouting something about a pig. Can’t it just be the nice bits?". The songs were recorded by DePlume and a one-off band consisting of Sarathy Korwar, Donna Thompson, James Howard, The Comet Is Coming’s Dan ‘Danalogue’ Leavers and Snapped Ankles’ Chestnutt. The Q describes the music as "gorgeous and soothing, intimate and direct".
Jazz is more serious than other genres - jazz requires exactly as much or as little expertise to listen to and appreciate as anything else
Jazz was born in New Orleans - it emerged almost simultaneously in a number of different communities
Jazz must swing - jazz artists are prone to experimenting with unusual time signatures
Jazz musicians were (or are) on drugs - early propaganda designed to paint black communities as dens of iniquity, and create reasons to arrest them
Jazz is dead - it’s integral to hip-hop and vibrant jazz scenes in Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Canada
"'More Arriving', the latest from UK-based drummer/tablaist and composer Sarathy Korwar, is a confrontational, musically far-reaching addition to the revolution music toolkit... A remarkable meeting of jazz, hip-hop, Indian classical music, and radical politics" - the Quietus reviews new album by the London musician. "Bursts of reggae wooziness, gnarled free-jazz atonality, and electronic noise afford […]
