Vinyl Launch and Music Performance
Gallery 3, Al Mureijah Art Spaces
Sarathy Korwar (musician, composer); Deepak Unnikrishnan (Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, NYUAD); Al MacSween (musician); Zawose Sisters (music duo)
Introduced by Natasha Ginwala and Hasan Hujairi
This live recital introduces the vinyl album conceived by Sarathy Korwar and Natasha Ginwala as an accompaniment to The Ancestral Well: Pulse to Terrain, Ginwala’s curatorial contribution to Sharjah Biennial 16 (SB16): to carry. The album brings together a series of commissioned sonic projects, recordings of live performances and studio sessions compiled especially for SB16. Spanning jazz studies and electronic sounds, this album takes its inspiration from ancient stepwells in India and water wells in Sharjah's historic residences and courtyards, which serve as leitmotifs of ancestral memory, placemaking and cross-generational convening. Through special improvised renditions led by Korwar and accompanied by author Deepak Unnikrishnan, jazz pianist Al MacSween and multi-instrumentalist duo Zawose Sisters, this launch celebrates sonority as shared frequencies.
Credits:
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and curated by Natasha Ginwala with Sarathy Korwar
Tabla, Electronics
Sarathy Korwar
Reading
Deepak Unnikrishnan
Piano, Synthesisers and Percussion
Al MacSween
Zeze, Limba and Ngoma za Muheme
Zawose Sisters
Introduction
Natasha Ginwala and Hasan Hujairi
Album Contributors
Tenma & Tishani Doshi feat. Chandralekha
Sarathy Korwar, Deepak Unnikrishnan and Karthika Naïr
Chibite Group (Singing Wells)
Boom.Diwan feat. Nduduzo Makhathini
Naima Nefertari
Nicolas Jaar
Asher Gamedze
dragonchild x Sunken Cages
Raya Lakova
George Jose