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Acclaimed writer Amit Chaudhuri launches his second album, Found Music with an intimate gig showcasing his jazz rock ragas and Indian rhythms.
Featuring startlingly original versions of songs by John Lennon, Leonard Cohen and Brian Wilson alongside sly and refreshing new compositions and contemporary re-workings of traditional Indian ragas, Found Music defies categorisation and will delight music fans of every persuasion.

Reviews of Amit Chaudhuri’s first CD, This Is Not Fusion:
‘We are used to intellectual, arty Westerners like David Byrne, Paul Simon or Brian Eno doing fusion records – here is a Calcutta-born equivalent, and as good as any of them’ Peter Culshaw, in a four-star review in Songlines...

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Acclaimed writer Amit Chaudhuri launches his second album, Found Music with an intimate gig showcasing his jazz rock ragas and Indian rhythms.
Featuring startlingly original versions of songs by John Lennon, Leonard Cohen and Brian Wilson alongside sly and refreshing new compositions and contemporary re-workings of traditional Indian ragas, Found Music defies categorisation and will delight music fans of every persuasion.

Reviews of Amit Chaudhuri’s first CD, This Is Not Fusion:
‘We are used to intellectual, arty Westerners like David Byrne, Paul Simon or Brian Eno doing fusion records – here is a Calcutta-born equivalent, and as good as any of them’ Peter Culshaw, in a four-star review in Songlines
‘Vibrant and sumptuously performed. "Summertime" is a magical reinvention, as are half a dozen other tracks’
Chris May in www.allaboutjazz.com

‘A unique album, Chaudhuri, a skilled musician ...unsurprisingly also writes a good lyric: try the Sting-ish "Moral Education". Fusion or not, the resulting sounds have an attractively unforced quality...'
Jazzwise magazine

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