Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music by Amit Chaudhuri (Fabar & Faber, 2021) Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, academic, singer and composer who has woven an extraordinary and intimate book. Through the warp of his memoir of discovery of North Indian classical music and lifelong study of singing in this tradition (for which… Continue reading Listening Differently
Month: May 2022
Thinking Differently
Thoughts in Mental Health Awareness Week 9-15 May 2022 Fear of the unknown When I was in my teens I was afraid. Unnerved by what and who I did not know, and unsettled by media’s reflex association between mental illness and violence (which still persists in the lazy tabloids). In my ignorance these feelings were… Continue reading Thinking Differently
At the Crossroads…
Crossroads: In search of moments that changed music by Mark Radcliffe (2019 Cannongate Books) The Crossroads: where Robert Johnson bargained his soul for the Devil’s music; where Tony Iommi guillotined his fingers and was inspired by the gypsy jazz guitar legend Django Reinhardt; where Kurt Cobain’s girlfriend’s deodorant inspire the grunge anthem of the 1990s.… Continue reading At the Crossroads…