The Indian Core

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Genre: New Age Instrumental

Country: Norway

This year, under the banner of The International Music Festival, Mood Indigo presents to the critically acclaimed Norwegian contemporary jazz group, The Indian Core that has managed to fuse jazz oriented western performers with renowned Indian music performers

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The band grew out of a tour of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh by The Core in 2006 , where they found three musical soul mates in the Indian performers Prasenjit Mitra, Kanchman Babbar and Fateh Ali. The desire to play together seemed completely natural as both sets of musicians have a common point of departure in their own folk music and to a large extent utilise improvisation. According to the critics this tour was an experience above and beyond the ordinary, a beautiful interaction between saxophone, flute and sitar, and double bass, piano and tablas.

The climax was the recording session for their first CD which captures the magic of the musical collaboration between East and West with its mix of contemporary jazz and traditional Indian music.

Performers :

Kirsti Huke - Vocals
Fateh Ali - Sitar
Jørgen Mathisen - Saxophones/Clarinet
Erlend Slettevoll - Piano
Steinar Raknèz - Bass
Prasenjit Mitra - Tabla
Espen Aalberg - Drums

Web Link : http://thecore.no/

Myspace Link : http://myspace.com/thecorenorway

Date: 21st December 2009

Venue: Mood Indigo '09, IIT Bombay Campus

Contact: Prateek Chaturvedi | i.am.prateek@gmail.com | +91-9969501250