KALAK

Description

Sarathy Korwar returns with new album KALAK. The follow up to the politically charged, award-winning More Arriving is an Indo-futurist manifesto in rhythmic step with the past and the present, it sets out to describe a route forward. It celebrates a rich South Asian culture of music and literature, which resonates with spirituality and community, while envisaging a better future from those building blocks.

More Arriving a candid reflection of Korwars experience of being an Indian in a divided Britain won Best Independent Album at the 2020 AIM Awards, beating out the likes of Nick Cave and Kim Gordon.

It was also awarded MOJOs Jazz Album of the Year and was shortlisted for Gilles Petersons Worldwide Awards, the Jazz FM Awards and the Songlines Awards.

The album will be released on black vinyl and limited edition INDIES ONLY dark green vinyl (1,000 copies for the world).

Each format features a different cover image with photography by Fabrice Bourgelle.

All formats include an 8-page booklet, created by Sijya Gupta, with Korwars notes on the concepts behind the project.

Recorded at Real World Studios, with The Comet Is Comings Danalogue on synths, Tamar Osborn on baritone sax, Al MacSween on keys and percussionist Magnus Mehta.

The album also features vocals by Kushal Gaya of Melt Yourself Down and Mumbai-based producer and electronic artist Noni-Mouse, as well as a track recorded with Japanese drum ensemble Kodo.

Producer Photay remixed a track on Korwars debut album, Day To Day, and has also worked with Yazmin Lacey, Madison McFerrin, Steve Spacek and Jordan Rakei.

First single Utopia Is A Colonial Project is accompanied by a nocturnal, neon-lit dance video by Elliott Gonzo (Perfidious Productions), starring award winning choregrapher/dancer Botis Seva.

Korwars debut Day To Day (Ninja Tune, 2016), combined the folk rhythms of Indias Sidi community with contemporary electronics and jazz textures, earning praise from the likes of Four Tet, Gilles Peterson and Floating Points.

In 2018, he followed up with the live UPAJ Collective album, My East Is Your West (Gearbox), a critically-acclaimed take on the cultural appropriation of spiritual Indo-jazz.

Korwar has established himself as one of the most original and compelling voices in the UK jazz scene, collaborating with the likes of Shabaka Hutchings, Arun Ghosh, Hieroglyphic Being, Auntie Flo and Bex Burch (as Flock).

He has toured with Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal and Moses Boyd and was invited to perform at the prestigious New York Winter Jazz Festival in 2020.