There Is Beauty, There Already [CD]

Sarathy Korwar - There Is Beauty, There Already [CD]

Sarathy Korwar, genre-breaking drummer, producer and composer, announces the release of his seventh album, There Is Beauty, There Already, out on Otherland. Celebrating the melodic power of the drum ensemble, the album follows his 2022 Indofuturist manifesto KALAK with a deeply immersive longform suite of percussion-led compositions. Playing as a 40-minute suite of hypnotic and transcendent drum improvisations, the album beats through a repetitive, circular structure that brings to mind Indian folk music, jazz drum ensembles like Max Roach's M'Boom and the contemporary classical minimalism of Terry Riley and Steve Reich. From the undulating bass tones of the tabla to the tonal varieties of South Indian clay pot ghatam, the snare drum snap of the drum kit, and shades of electronic texture through the Buchla Easel, Korwar's ensemble bubbles and flows through a stream of steady rhythm, forever in motion like the ceaseless energy of a river. "The album is me finding my voice as a composer again and going back to the thing I know best, which is the drums," Korwar says. "It's me falling back in love with percussion and expressing just how melodic and emotive it can be. Unlike my other albums that have often engaged with weighty themes like migration, identity and futurism, this is a raw act of placing myself front and center -- letting the drums speak instead." 01. On A Perfect Day_x000D_ 02. We Take Things For Granted_x000D_ 03. Skin, Colour, Sun, Lover_x000D_ 04. A Day Is A Cycle Of Drum Beats_x000D_ 05. Looking For A Ghazal_x000D_ 06. Amongst All Of The Rubble_x000D_ 07. Is There Beauty?_x000D_ 08. Beauty Doesn't Know What It Looks Like_x000D_ 09. We Won't Go Searching_x000D_ 10. There Is Beauty, There Already