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Autorickshaw: So The Journey Goes

Read "So The Journey Goes" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


A winning argument could be made for Toronto as a multi-cultural city like no other, New York included. Through its veins flow the tradition of numerous nations, including India. Music is one of the traditions that hold sway, not only in ethnic exposition but also in collaborations where tradition and modernism blend.

Toronto band Autorickshaw has, for the past five years, been bringing to the fore a musical hybrid that draws from Indian classical music, jazz, folk and ...

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Autorickshaw: Four Higher

Read "Four Higher" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Both Indian classical music and jazz get their sinew and their soul from improvisation, a perfect wellspring for Autorickshaw to draw from. The taal (the cycle) in Indian classical music has an aspect of composition, but the musicians open and change it. Singer Suba Sankaran fills the classical tunes with a hypnotic earthiness, signalling her as an accomplished singer in the Carnatic, or South Indian, tradition of classical music. Her intonation when she brings in the vocal suppleness on “Purvi ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

So The Journey Goes

Tala-Wallah Records
2008

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Four Higher

Tala Wallah
2005

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Four Higher

Tala-Wallah Records
2004

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