I play guitar, tabla, sitar, & santoor in London, recording and performing with open-minded collaborators. I release sounds as ‘Rāga Junglism’, mixing jazz, Indian classical, oldskool jungle, etc…
![“The Capirola Lutebook was compiled in 1520 by Vitale, a pupil of Capirola. The compositions included probably date from around 1517. There are 42 folios; the manuscript begins with a short note by its creator, one Vitale...[who] informs the reader that he adorned the lutebook with paintings to ensure its survival: even owners not interested in musical matters would keep the lutebook in their collections because of the paintings...”
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• No Kanjira •
- Acoustic guitar, sampled kit drums, and my (broken-skinned) tabla – plus a shattering of Jesse Bannister’s soaring Indo-jazz sax improv…
• Loops etc •
Plenty of roombound time during London lockdown 2020-22. Send me ideas, images, words, scenes, anything…
- ‘Double-side’ capoing: (“A DIY capo hack to turn 6 strings into 12: tune to DADGAD, capo at 11fr, and pluck on ‘both sides of the bar’. Transform your guitar into a microtonal harp!”):
- Parameshwari slack-bends [loop #3]:
- Vocalised melodic improv [loop #2]:
- Sitar-style articulations [loop #1]:
• Santoor •
The hundred-stringed Hindustani box (well, 92 on mine) – with roots in Kashmiri Sufi music. See my santoor primer for Darbar.
- Glides & slides – improv [2021]:
• Singing •
A more recent activity…just for fun
- Stones in my Passway – Robert Johnson’s angular cross-rhythms:
• Guitar World studies •
Dozens of short, fully-scored etudes for my Fresh Repertoire lesson series: focused on distilling core concepts from various global musical traditions, and reappraising some familiar guitaristic ideas along the way…
- Ornamented jazz walking bassline (Guitar World, 2020):
- ‘Santoor-ifying’ a Kafi/Dorian lick (Guitar World, 2019):
- Malian kora harps – melodic ideas (Guitar World, 2019):
[more on the way…lemme do some mastering]
• Odds & ends •
…assorted sonic things…
- Session projects: e.g. recording guitar parts for a BBC1 wildlife soundtrack (The Great British Year) – I remember playing along to a surprisingly violent deer chase.
- From wayback: some fingerstyle acoustic flamboyance as a teenager (Blues for Tommy):
