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Kaamana Billu
är ett konstnärligt samarbete mellan indiska world-fusion-gruppen MoonArra
och de svenska musikerna
Biggi Vinkeloe, Annika Törnqvist och Vanja Holm.
Albumet spelades in i samband med ett musikresidens inom projektet Women and roots i Göteborg sommaren 2023. Musiken är skriven och arrangerad av Biggi Vinkeloe och producerad av Michael Thorén, Biggi Vinkeloe och Annika Törnqvist.
 
Första låten Kaamana Billu, a suite, är en svit där varje del gestaltar en av regnbågens färger.  Thursday Night är en jazzballad med starka sånginsatser och vackra saxofonmelodier. The Light Will Come är en jazzkomposition som blandats med en traditionell indisk melodi till ett färgstarkt kaos.
Med stöd av Kulturrådet för musikutgivning.
 
Medverkande musiker:
Jataveda Banerjee sång (Bangalore, Indien)
Mythili Anatharaman sång (Bangalore, Indien)
Madhuri Jagadeesh sång (Bangalore, Indien)
Jagadeesh Ramanujam Mudambi gitarr (Bangalore, Indien)
Biggi Vinkeloe flöjt, saxofon (Alingsås, Sverige)
Annika Törnqvist elbas (Västerlanda, Sverige)
Vanja Holm trummor (Pixbo, Sverige)

KAAMANA BILLU
is an artistic collaboration between the Indian world-fusion-group MoonArra and the Swedish musicians Biggi Vinkeloe, Annika Törnqvist and Vanja Holm.
The album was recorded during a music residency within the project Women and Roots in Gothenburg in the summer of 2023. The music is written and arranged by Biggi Vinkeloe and produced by Michael Thorén, Biggi Vinkeloe and Annika Törnqvist.

The first composition, Kaamana Billu, is a suite repainting each rainbow color. Thursday Night is a jazz ballad with strong vocals and beautiful saxophone melodies. The Light Will Come is a composition where jazz lines blend with a traditional Indian melody into a colorful chaos.
With the support of the Cultural Council for Music Publishing.

Musicians:
Jataveda Banerjee, voice (Bangalore, India)
Mythili Anatharaman, voice (Bangalore, India)
Madhuri Jagadeesh, voice (Bangalore, India)
Jagadeesh Ramanujam Mudambi, guitar (Bangalore, India)
Biggi Vinkeloe, flute, saxophone (Alingsås, Sweden)
Annika Törnqvist, electric bass (Västerlanda, Sweden)
Vanja Holm, drums (Pixbo, Sweden)
all of the musicians: voice, tampura, small percussions 

MoonArra is a group centered around Madhuri Jagadeesh and Jagadeesh Ramanujam Mudambi, in collaboration with musicians from India and abroad. MoonArra has toured Europe numerous times, during the pandemic, they initiated several online projects with musicians from many countries around the world. Biggi Vinkeloe, together with Nema Vinkeloe Uuskyla, has performed with the group in India and online previously to the project in Sweden. The three Swedish musicians have worked together on and off for the past decade. Annika Törnqvist and Biggi Vinkeloe, together with Nema Vinkeloe Uuskyla, are known as NAB Trio. It felt like an extension of their work to invite MoonArra to Sweden for a project together. It was a challenge to organize the music with three so distinctively different singers, one singing in Hindustani tradition, one in Carnatic tradition, and one leaning heavily into jazz tradition. We had to create enough space in the music for each expression and still keep a strong red thread throughout the pieces. A composition, a concept served as a frame for the musicians who each contributed with beautiful lines, motives, rhythmical ideas, short ostinati, soli and improvisations to create a sometimes, dense, sometimes spacey, but always colorful and adventurous music. It is not meant as fusion music, but rather a meeting of different cultural expressions coming together in a new and exciting form of World Music.


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Annika Törnqvist
tel 0704-241188
annika@gac.se

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