RECORDS
Derek Gripper
Udai Mazumdar
tabla and guitar
South African guitarist Derek Gripper and Indian tabla master Udai Mazumdar began their collaboration with a spontaneous performance in a Basel (Switzerland) jazz club in 2009. They met again in 2010 to perform in the Western Cape of South Africa , and to record their CD "Rising," an epic exploration of the possibilities presented by the combination of a highly original guitar style, and the language of the Classical Indian "tabla," a set of two drums played by the hands and capable of a wide range of pitches and sounds. Their subsequent work together has initiated a cross-cultural dialogue of spontaneous music-making which combines the complex rhythmic structures of Indian classical music, with the sounds of Malian kora, African guitar, contemporary Brazilian music, Western Cape Koortjie, and the techniques of classical guitar. Udai's many years of study and performances with some of India's greatest musicians (including Pandit Ravi Shankar and Zakir Hussain), and Derek's "New Cape" guitar music make for an unlikely combination, but the musical affinity between these highly trained and perfectly matched musicians speaks for itself.
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