Minimal Musical Festival: Sarathy Korwar

There is beauty, there already

There is no shortcut to a transcendent experience. Drummer, composer, and producer Sarathy Korwar, now a fixture in the British jazz scene and also known as the drummer for Shabaka Hutchings and Anoushka Shankar, knows this better than anyone. His latest album, There is Beauty, There Already, released in November, is a hypnotic forty-minute suite for percussion, without pauses, where one track flows organically from the next. At the end: pure catharsis. Korwar shares the stage with three other percussionists in this fascinating trip of colors, layered rhythms, beats, and drones.

For Sarathy Korwar, genres clearly do not matter. You could say that he has been shaped equally by jazz, Indian folk, electro, and the minimalism of composers like Terry Riley and Steve Reich. Korwar’s previous album, KALAK, topped many year-end lists, and with There is Beauty, There Already, he is making a big impression once again. Korwar’s resounding plea for the melodic and emotional power of percussion is simply irresistible.

Minimal Music festival kindly offered a limited amount of free tickets for Subbacultcha members. Please make a reservation by sending an email to mailinglist@subbacultcha.nl with ‘Sarathy Korwar’ in the subject line + your name in the email.

Registrations are open until 12.00 PM on weekdays.