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LARAAJIBased in New York City, Laraaji began playing music on the streets in the 1970s, improvising trance-inducing jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. Influential British musician and record producer Brian Eno saw him playing one night in Washington Square Park and invited him to record an album of ambient music at his studio. Laraaji went on to release a prolific series of albums for a wide variety of labels, many of which he recorded himself at home and sold as cassettes during his street performances. In recent years his profile has enjoyed a renaissance via a series of new and reissued recordings on the All Saints label, as well as worldwide performances, laughter meditation workshops and deep listening sessions.
GANAVYA
The California-based artist, who performed with Sault in London, melds spiritual jazz and South Asian classical music with ambient textures. Join us for her first Swiss concert.
via the Guardian:
Of the many «wow» moments during Sault’s debut live show in London last December, one soloist floored everyone: Early in the evening, a woman in an ethereal white dress, alone under the spotlights, unleashed elegant, deeply moving vocal acrobatics that drew on south Asian classical traditions.
Many wondered who this beguiling presence was, whose voice had a delicate emotive heft that could turn stoics into sobbing wrecks.
It was Ganavya Doraiswamy, a New York-born, California-based, South India-raised scholar and multi-instrumentalist. She has already worked on an album produced by Quincy Jones and collaborated with jazz luminaries including Esperanza Spalding but has only recently returned as an album artist herself. Doraiswamy was taught carnatic music by her mother and grandmothers, and learned storytelling techniques during a youth spent on southern India's pilgrimage trail. She relocated back to the US, took up the first of many arts degrees and released her first album in 2018: Aikyam: Onnu, which translated jazz standards into her native Tamil.
It has taken six years to release its follow-up, tellingly titled Like the Sky I’ve Been Too Quiet. Released on Shabaka Hutchings’s label «Native Rebel Recordings», the album features Hutchings, Floating Points and the LA multi-instrumentalist Carlos Niño, co-producer of the recent André 3000 album, among others. The nocturnal blend of spiritual jazz and burbling electronics provides a lush, atmospheric backdrop for Doraiswamy’s voice, which dances, as if en pointe. It’s among the most evocative albums you’ll hear this year.
Presented by Noise Reduction
Supported by: Kasheme | Popkredit der Stadt Zürich
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Neumünster (Zürich), Neumünsterstrasse 10, 8008 Zürich, Schweiz,Zürich, Switzerland, Zurich
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