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Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Posted 2:12 PM by Anurag

ESPERANTO performing live
at Planet M on april 30th 6.30 pm.

And releasing their fourth Album BRICK BOY On the world working children's day By Mrs Deepali Pal, Director ICCR.

The music features dance/ trance electronic sounds of French Sound designer Christian Fauvre and the carnatic veena of Geetha Navale, an unusually heady music concoction. The title track, 'Brick boy' looks at the irony of child labour , how a child who ought to be playing is made to carry bricks all day long for a living. The words are taken from the writings of social activist and artist John Devraj. The album includes 'Chalamela Ra', a renditon of an exquisite 300 year old composition -a "Fat Boy Slim meets Thyagaraja" version 'Aqua Veena' a composition showcasing glass instruments, south american voices and the mother of all instruments - the veena, 'Nanjangudu' a kannada folk song and original compositions like Cyberspace - over an hour of music all touched with the tastefully creative and highly varied pallete of musical sounds at the disposal of the musicians of the esperanto! world music project.

You are invited to grace the occasion and launch the new sound.

Esperanto! the project.

Over the last 4 years, some rather interesting experiments in music are being carried out at the lush creekside of the Guruskool residential music centre, involving musicians, sound designers, and music fiends from all over the globe.

Strange sounds, familiar melodies, rhythms have been juxtaposed / mixed and from the strains a profoundly infectious music has emerged.

Esperanto! the musicians

Geetha Navale, the internationally acclaimed carnatic veena vidushi along with her songwriter husband Gopal Navale and with the wandering ministrel from Denmark, Michael Sorensen, and the all weather percussionist Natraj form the core of the esperanto! project.

In their endeavours to synthesise a new global sound, an ecclectic group of collaborators with diverse specialities, diverse nationalities have spent time at Guruskool. Ranjit Prasad (Jazz Bassist, composer) USA,) Ryan Biesack (Flautist & Jazz Drummer, USA), Jesse Sheehan,( Saxophones, USA, Ganesh Anandan -( frame drums - Canada,) David Rothenberg, - (Free Jazz Clarinetist, ecologist, writer - USA) Bambi - (Sound designer, trancer - France), Martin Kinz - (Composer , Percussion - Germany),Boris Meir - (rock guitarist - Germany), Lourdes Pfeiffer (Cellist - Spain) Robert Wright - (pianist, songwriter -USA) are some of the enligthened musicians have worked on the project.

Esperanto! Live

Introduce their infectious new sound to audiences all over the world by performing and giving workshops in all kinds of venues from clubs to colleges to concert halls ; from malleswaram to manhattan. The great Indian revival at the Kala Academy, Goa, The Knitting Factory in New York, the esprirt de Pondicherry concert and at The Freedom Jam festival in Bangalore have been among the specially memorable ones.

Esperanto! the recordings

They share the excitement of their new sound with these albums:
"Mixd Feel" - carnatic +blues+jazz - 2000
"Ocean Floor" - carnatic veena + western classical cello-2001
"Knitting Knotes"- free jazz bass clarinet+ glass instruments+ carnatic veena -2003
"The Brick boy" - electronic sounds +carnatic+ folk- 2004

They are all available at your Planets M, or online at www.guruskoolmusic.com

Esperanto! feedback

"A dulcet veena solo harkens you to a land of spiritual regeneration, only to deliver you to the warm hug of a blues-harp boogie. A unique mix of instruments, a melting pot of musical genres (not to mention nationalities!), and consummate musicianship are all woven into a riveting and seamless collage" Vishwambar Pati.........The Hindu Blues critic.......
"Valiant Indo - Jazz Fusion, a seamless mix" . ..Jazzebel The Economic Times
" Eclectic sound attempts at broadening the mind, . . . .....the adaptability of the musicians who come from totally different musical backgrounds not once feeling uncomfortable playing with each other. Niranjan Burke, Bangalore Weekly,
" Esperanto evolving in US tour" Jeet Thayil, India In Newyork
" Esperanto an intriguing mix of musical styles" Lisa Tsering , India West
" Breaking new ground in the world of music" Padmini Sitaraman, The Hindu

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