The All-India Sufi & Mystic Music Festival takes place in multiple cities across India each year. November & December 2011 will see 3 weekends of performances at Purana Qila, Delhi, the Horniman Circle Gardens , Mumbai and Tollygunge Club, Kolkata featuring a broad spectrum of International musicians.
We’ll be posting a review of the Mumbai shows later this month, but here is something to whet your mystic appetite in the form of the complete list of performances featured :-
NEW DELHI
19th November 2011, Purana Quila, Delhi Zikr-e-Rifayi – Fakirs (Andhra Pradesh)
Jikir-Jari – Hafiza Begum Choudhury & Group (Assam)
Baul Songs – Parvathy Baul (West Bengal)
Sema – Whirling Dervishes (Turkey)
Kabirbani – Mukhtiyar Ali & Group (Rajasthan)
Sufi Qawwali – Fareed Ayaz & Group (Pakistan)
Ashirvad / Noodreem & DJ Darren Sangita at Boom Festival 2010.
Boom Festival 2010 ,the epic multi-disciplinary psychedelic arts festival in Portugal play host to Sangita Sounds artists.
Ashirvad & Noodreem will be playing live sets in the Ambient Paradise and DJ Darren Sangita will be playing a 4 hour epic set. This illustrious festival has been going for a decade and is the foremost of its kind. With 25,000 cosmic spirits in attendace it will surely be an epic collective of high minds and light beings
The new album from Ashirvad, which will have a full release in September is to have a proper outing at the Boom. Featuring numerous classical musicians from India, tracks from this spiritually soaked epic electroacoustic album is sure to create transcendental waves for surfing into bliss! Noodreem will also be sharing his latest sonic excursions and ambient trance vibrations in exquisite sonic style, with his latest tracks being born in the Mystical town of Glastonbury.
DJ Darren Sangita will weave an exotic blend of mystical grooves, illuminating dubs and ethnospheric shimmers in his inimitable style. Join him to know the pleasures of sharing a sonic journey around the world and landing back just in time for tea! Expect to reach depths that touch the bottom of the Ocean and Highs that match any Himalayan vista.
Come and join us one and all. Sangita Sounds host another cosmic family gathering at the ever marvellous Inspiral Lounge this weekend. A chance to chill and chat, to gather and groove and share the delectable euphonic euphoria of the magic that is Sangita Sounds.
With original music from Haladhar, Experiemental Sound Project and Noodreem, with DJ sets from Jaya Jai and Darren Sangita this is sure to be another dip into the holographic magic of Love in Light.
(Special Thanks to Rahul Khatri for “Lotus Blossoms of the Mind” artwork)
So if Babylondon done get you down, come taste the Ital Vibrations with the Sangita Soundsystem an ting inna rub-a-dub stylee!!! We gonna tear down the veil of illision and set dem free. Big Up the Sangita Massive!
Time : 8pm till 2am
Venue : Inspiral Lounge. Camden High Street. London. UK
The eminent Indian Music and arts organisation, Darbar, have just announced their line up for this years impressive Darbar festival.
The festival encompasses North and South Indian music traditions, along with film exhibitions, free workshops and a chance to meet and discuss with some of the artists.
A veritable feast of Classical Indian Musicians will resonate their marvellous music in the city of London for the main body of the events, from 1st – 4th April 2010. No doubt the city is blessed to have such a dazzling array of stars in its midst and I heartily encourage anyone with an interest in the magic of music to attend any of these excellent performances.
With such esteemed heavyweight musicians such as as Shiv Kumar Sharma (Santoor), Anindo Chatterjee (Tabla) and the Gundecha Brothers (Dhrupad Vocal) the line up is drenched in promise. Lesser know but no less talented appearances from artists such as the Canartic vocal duo Ranjani & Gayatri are sure to captivate British audiences and leave them spellbound. The magical tones of Kaushal Das on Sitar are also sure to delight the listener and reveal nuances of music that will illuminate and enthrall. I have blogged many times about the great Indian Classical Music festivals such as Dover Lane Conference in Kolkata or Dhrupad Mela in Varanasi, but this really is the closet thing we are going to get this side of the Indian Ocean.
The line-up is listed here with more details below:-
Festival elements…
Carnatic vocal and instrumental | North Indian Hindustani vocal | Dhrupad | Western Operatic | Free Workshops | Audience with the artists | Films | Mini-concerts | Concerts throughout the day
The line-up…
Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma | Patricia Rozario | Veena Sahasrabuddhe | Rohan de Saram | Dhruba Ghosh | Bhupinder Chaggar | Hari Sivanesan | T Pirashanna | Kousic Sen | Satyajit Talwalkar | Dharambir Singh | Sunil Kant Gupta | Shahbaz Hussain | Ranjani and Gayatri | Jyotsna Srikanth | H. S. Sudhindra | Sanju Sahai | Kushal Das | Pandit Anindo Chatterjee | Ravi Shankar Upadhay | A K Palanivel | Rajhesh Vaidhya | Arun Prakash | Anirudh Athreya | Pandit Venkatesh Kumar | Soumik Datta | Neyveli Venkatesh | Gundecha Brothers
Our pre-launch party is coming! This coming friday will see a cosmic ensemble of musicians, producers, friends and family gather together in the mystic melting pot of Inspiral Lounge.
SANGITA SOUNDS
Present
ASHIRVAD
(album launch)
LIVE
Ashirvad, E.S.P, Noodreem
DJ
Jaya Jay , Darren Sangita
VENUE : Inspiral Lounge, 250 Camden High Street, London
DATES : Friday 9th October 2009. 8pm – 1am.
ADMISSION : Free
Sangita Sounds present Ashirvad, a kaleidoscopic musical mandala of sonic nectar. Join us for a celebration in sound fusing and innovating in the traditions of Bengali dub, indian devotional & classical music, ambient raga and psychedelic electronica. The extended soundtrack to our journey will be provided by our hand picked selection of sonic sorcerers and musical magicians.
Ravens Ait is an Island in the River Thames, near Kingston, London. With a venue built on it several unsuccessful businesses having gone bankrupt and the local authority leaving it derelict for years, the Rainbow Circle Community decided to take it over and begin using it as an Eco-Conference centre and community resourse. Having visited there recently we were delighted by the various activities, skills sharing, and community workshops happening there. A wonderful resource for local and international people alike.
Sangita Sounds are honoured to have been invited to host workshops and meditation & relaxation based music events. Stay tuned for more news.
Facing Eviction by the local authority, we urge you to take a stand for positive community space.
Ravens Tree Grove
SAVE RAVEN’S AIT ISLAND FOR US ALL
We want Raven’s Ait to be a community centre for you! But we need your support to make it happen. There are lots of ways in which you can get involved or show your support and the first, really easy way is to email, phone or write to Kingston council.
They need to know that the local community and beyond are right behind this project and are ready to demonstrate their solidarity with those eager to keep this island as a productive eco community centre for all.
Just one phone call from you might swing this debate and ensure that this wonderful space is rescued from being sold off to property developers and lost forever.
ACT NOW TO SAVE OUR COMMON LAND!
If you support the vision for Raven’s Ait as an eco community space where we as a collective can put into practice the concepts of sustainable living, permaculture, skills sharing, workshops and providing a community space for groups to meet and network, then PLEASE take five minutes to let the council know how you feel. They don’t know if you don’t tell them.
CALL: Bruce McDonald, Chief Executive Kingston Council 0208 547 5151
Gerry Sevenoaks, Head of Strategic Services 0208 547 5175
WRITE: The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Guildhall, High Street, Kingston
upon Thames KT1 1EU
DEFEND YOUR COMMUNITY SPACE!
We welcome visits between 12 – 7pm every day. For a guided tour, cuppa and a chat get in touch with Nick 079646729222, Rick 07791042078, Camilla 07900800055 or Phoenix 07769791387 or hail the ferryman from across the water. Check out our website www.ravensait.org.uk for latest updates, events and videos and to see our proposal to the council. You can also join our facebook group:ravensait
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