Following from”Outlaw” comes “Fray” taken from the album “Phasmatis In Machina” out on Shiva Soundsystem Recordings.

You can view some of the artwork for the physical album Phasmatis In Machina on the Cabein site > Click here

Hip Hop meets snarling Metal

Director – Shaft Uddin
DOP – Kwami
Post Production – Kooch Chung
Art Direction – Kunal Anand @ Cabein
Make up – Becky Perkins
Producer – Nerm

Featuring: Jenna G, Huw Stephens, DJ Kayper + Nathan “Flutebox” Lee

Cast: Nina Hunjan, Elio D’Anna Jr, Pravvy Prav, Silent Source, D-Code, Nerm, Bambooclart, Kunal Anand, Roshani Hewa, Ravneet Dhanjal, Natashca Nanji, Nellie Hamid, Matilde Ramos Pinto, Reju Sharma, Rupa Bhatti, Kam Bagri Dhanjal, Ed Nattrass, Amrita Singh, Lesh Thapar

And heres the making of, shot by Laura Taflinger

Stunning choreography, set design and direction.

Meaning ‘dreaming’ in Sanskrit, Svapnagata is a unique two-week festival of Indian music and dance curated by two multi award-winning artists – dancer and choreographer Akram Khan and composer Nitin Sawhney.

With a wide range of events taking place in the main house and the Lilian Baylis Studio, the festival offers a dazzling array of performances from some of the finest Indian musicians, dancers and choreographers, presenting classical work in a contemporary context.

> Sadler’s Wells

As posted before Music through unconventional means presented by Shlomo with Gauri Sharama down at the Southbank

Finally some vids, live it was truly inspiring 

A vevry sick man Shlomo is doing a gig down the Southbank Centre thats going to be insane.
His skills alonside khatak by Gauri Sharma.

Wow this looks amazing….

An incredible story of a beautiful temple dancer Nikiya, who provokes a murderous jealously from her rival Gamzatti is set in a beautiful lush, Indian landscape. With its passionate characters, lavish staging and some of the most challenging ballet choreography, La Bayadére is sure to take your breath away…

> Read more 
> Trailer

Vinita Agarwal does some beautiful photography. I love her work especially her b/w classical dance series. I first saw them a while back in an issue of Creative Review and then via Watermans Enter exhibitions but forgot her name and stubbled upon her site recently. Her sites a little compact in terms of viewing but the work is lovely and deserves a full screen view. 

Agarwal graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design achieving Masters Degree in Communication Design, in the pathway of Photography. Vinita is passionate about photography and works as freelance photographer in London. She has initiated a photography workshop with NGO based in Mumbai, which localises street children under addiction and has also worked for the YMCA

Vinita Agarwal’s project aims to convey the traditional Indian dance form in a new light through photography. The focus here is on style of Indian dance: Kathak. By breaking down dance pieces into 20 second long exposures, Vinita aimed to convey the intricate relationship of the taal and laya. In no other major art form does time play such an important part as in Indian dance and music. Basic rhythm is described as taal, which is counted time, usually by the clapping of hands and this follows a structured pattern. This counted time is then further divided into subdivisions known as laya, which has strict rhythm and an ever-changing tempo according to the music piece. By attaching light sources to the hands and feet, the trails of movement are captured here within each time frame to communicate its precision.

Let There Be Light was an awesome episode featureing artists who quite literally use light as a /object in they work. Such as Universal Visual Artist who have done visuals for Massive Attack as well as interactive light installations on the South Bank and a load of other extraordinary artists

Imagine essential arts program from the Beeb presented by Alan Yentob always inspires me.
Check it out on BBC I-Player back in the new year.

Heres an episode on Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche. Wow!
I saw Akram Khan’s Zero Degrees @ Sadler’s Wells a few years ago with music composed by Nitin Sawhney… left me speechless.