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Late Junction: Sarathy Korwar on Indian hip hop

Sarathy Korwar on Indian hip hop

BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, Sarathy Korwar on Indian hip hop

Sarathy Korwar shares his love of India’s nascent hip hop scene with Max Reinhardt.

Percussionist and bandleader Sarathy Korwar shares his love of India’s fast developing, inter-city hip hop scene with Max Reinhardt.

The latest album by percussionist and bandleader Sarathy Korwar is his most political to date. Korwar describes it as ‘an honest reflection of my experience of being an Indian in Britain. It is a record born of confrontation; one for our confrontational times.’  It features an array of voices from across the South Indian diaspora as well as collaborations with MCs from the nascent rap scene coming out of Mumbai and New Delhi. For Korwar what is refreshing about this scene is that it is the first time independent music has been driven predominantly by working class kids in the country, rather than from the upper-middle class. He plays Max Reinhardt some of the most exciting talent coming out of the scene right now. 
Max also dishes out some dynamic boogie-woogie piano from 1930s Tennessee, Afro-Brazilian broadsides from Bahia and a lost LP by Amnon Raviv, an Israeli hospital clown who makes psychedelic flamenco guitar.

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