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Amit Chaudhuri

Babel Label: New Songs from the Tower of Sound

by Jakob Baekgaard
September 24, 2012

During the last decade, British jazz has been booming and London has become, once again, one of the jazz capitals of the world. To get a feel of what's happening, the place for live music is no longer Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, but a place called The Vortex, directed by Oliver Weindling. Weindling is also the ...

Found Music

By Amit Chaudhuri

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2010
Track listing: On Broadway (Postcolonial Version); Saraswati; One Fine Day; Country Hustle; Rain; Messages From The Underground (Break On Through); So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star; Good Vibrations; Norwegian Wood; Famous Blue Raincoat Suite.

This Is Not Fusion

By Amit Chaudhuri

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2010
Track listing: The Layla Riff to Todi; Dotara; Summertime; Shree in Two Keys; Moral Education; Freewheeling Jog; Trucker; All India Radio; Berlin; Motz.

Chris May's Best Releases of 2010

by Chris May
December 24, 2010

Here are my favorite dozen new releases of 2010. It was an outstanding year on many fronts. There was ravishing lyricism from saxophonists Nat Birchall and Stan Sulzmann and beyond-touristic flamenco and Indian infusions from bassist Dave Holland and singer Amit Chaudhuri, the politically charged complete works of Fela Anikulapo Kuti and the delicious ...

Amit Chaudhuri: Found Music

by Chris May
October 4, 2010

Calcutta-born singer Amit Chaudhuri's follow-up to This Is Not Fusion (Babel, 2010) is another captivating and deeply idiosyncratic fusion/not fusion of Hindustani classical music, jazz, rock and blues. It's a style Chaudhuri, with several albums of “pure" Hindustani music already behind him, began developing in 2004 with the Amit Chaudhuri Band, which features his singing alongside ...

Amit Chaudhuri: This Is Not Fusion

by Chris May
February 16, 2010

Being opposed to musical fusion in 2010 is a bit like being opposed to digital technology. It appears rather ridiculous, for the comingling of global musical flavors is now practically the norm. It's not a norm shared by the Calcutta-born novelist and poet Amit Chaudhuri, who takes a contrary tack on This Is Not Fusion.