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Simon Thacker's Svara-kanti at Glad Cafe
Courtesy of Simon Thacker | Posted on March 9, 2017
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Sat, March 25, 2017
19:30
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One of Scotland’s most distinctive musical voices, guitarist/composer Simon Thacker, and four extraordinary performers tap into the Indian subcontinent’s folk, classical and spiritual traditions to create a gloriously unpredictable, rhythmically thrilling programme of original compositions and radical reimaginings, simultaneously contemporary and ancient.
Showcasing the very latest developments in a journey that has seen Simon tour and premiere new work at major festivals in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, most recently for 60 000 people in Dhaka, and feature at Made in Scotland for three consecutive years, they will be premiering material from their forthcoming Trikala album. Trikala is the follow up to their 2013 debut Rakshasa, which was highly praised in over fifty reviews around the world, played on over 200 radio stations in the USA alone and featured in several "best of the year" critics' lists....