https://www.phf.org.uk/artist/sarathy-korwar/
Sarathy Korwar (born 1987) is a musician specialising in North Indian classical music and jazz. He trained as a classical tabla player focusing on the adaptation of Indian classical rhythmic material to non-Indian percussion instruments before translating his skills to the western drum kit and establishing himself as one of the most original and compelling voices in the UK jazz scene. Korwar is the founder of the UPAJ Collective – a group of South Asian jazz and Indian classical musicians brought together through a love of collaboration and improvisation.
Korwar has collaborated with a number of artists, including British jazz musician Shabaka Hutchings on The Comet Is Coming, clarinettist Arun Ghosh and producer Hieroglyphic Being, as well as groups Penya and Ill Considered. In November 2018 he released his album My East Is Your West with the UPAJ Collective, a comment on the cultural appropriation of ‘spiritual’ Indo-jazz, which was awarded The Guardian’s Contemporary Album of the Month.
He released his second studio album, More Arriving, in July 2019 and went on to win best independent album at the Aim Awards in 2020. This work is regarded as an honest reflection of his experience of being an Indian in Britain, incorporating rappers from Mumbai and New Delhi, spoken word and his own Indian classical and jazz performances.
Receiving the Paul Hamlyn award helps me be more ambitious with the scale of my future projects. I will be able to put my entire creative energy into some very exciting projects and not worry about compromising on the important stuff. It is an absolute honour and I can’t wait to get started. Personally, it also reminds me that people are interested in what I have to make, which is always a very good reminder.Sarathy Korwar
Drums (Sarathy Korwar), synths (Dan Leavers), flute (Tamar Osborn), baritone saxophone (Tamar Osborn), keys (Alastair MacSween). Produced by Evan Shornstein. Composed and arranged by Sarathy Korwar. 4 minutes 17 seconds duration (extract 2m). From the album Kalak, to be released November 2022.
Drums (Sarathy Korwar), synths (Dan Leavers), flute (Tamar Osborn), baritone saxophone (Tamar Osborn), keys (Alastair MacSween, voice (Kushal Gaya). Produced by Evan Shornstein. Composed and arranged by Sarathy Korwar. 5 minutes 13 seconds duration (extract 2m). From the album Kalak, to be released November 2022.
Drums (Sarathy Korwar), flute (Tamar Osborn), baritone saxophone (Tamar Osborn), keys (Alastair MacSween). Produced by Evan Shornstein. Composed and arranged by Sarathy Korwar. 4 minutes 49 seconds duration (extract 2m). From the album Kalak, to be released November 2022.
Voice (MC Mawali), drums (Sarathy Korwar), flute (Tamar Osborn), baritone saxophone (Tamar Osborn), keys (Alastair MacSween), bass (Ruth Goller), synth (Danalogue), percussion (Magnus Mehta). Co-produced by Danalogue. Composed and arranged by Sarathy Korwar. Lyrics by MC Mawali. Sound engineers Daniel Trachtenberg and Joshua Fernandes. 5 minutes 26 seconds duration (extract 2m). From the album More Arriving, released July 2019.