I.A.M. FAMILY: I.A.M. Sarathy Korwar
A series of conversations about [im]migrant journeys, music, food, names, love, languages, talent, our ways of living and our future cultures
26 May 2021, a conversation with musician Sarathy Korwar about chappals, train journeys, tabla beats, ethnomusicology, privilege, Tunisians in Belgium, YouTube playlists, hand-eye coordination, the Mahabharat, repetition, spirit realms, spaceships, Gujarati food, having people over for dinner, creating honest work, the power of live music, feeling like a majority … and then some.
Together we travelled to Pune, Dar-es-salaam, Ealing, Kochi, Leicester, Amritsar, Paris, New York, Bombay, Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Abu Dhabi, Cricklewood, Chennai, Gravesend and back to Cliftonville, Margate
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1:17:23: incantation My Turntable is a Spaceship (2021) by Swan Nemesis x Music: Waiting for First Contact by Sarathy Korwar
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