Imagine a reprise of jazz chord, a western classical structure & harmony, then an alaap scale of a raag… but all within a single thought. You may be forgiven to shout that can only be contrived. But, that is exactly what Jonathan Mayer’s musical brain computes on a daily basis..
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There is a recognizable hunger in Sarathy Korwar when meeting him or seeing him play live. It is a hunger of the kind you see in someone who wants to correct or restore something that has gone wrong in the world. In Cicadas, his last commissioned work for zerOclassikal, he was eager to re-address