Madras Special featuring Special Guest: Omri Hason

VVK 15 Euro AK 18 Euro
Tickets are available from May 2023 at the local advance booking offices Theaterbüro, Touristinfo and BBV Bocholt
and already online at
www.tixforgigs.com/de-DE/Event/47303/madras-special-freier-kulturort-alte-molkerei-e-v-bocholt

Ramesh Shotham founded the ensemble Madras Special - New Generation, with the aim of
to promote young, highly talented musicians from NRW, with the idea of focusing on
encounter and dialogue in order to ultimately develop a new conception of musical culture.
develop. Shotham's work has often involved the exchange of musical ideas and concepts from the
of European musical culture with Indian musical traditions. The
Strengthening and expanding artistic networks between artists from NRW and
India is very close to his heart.
The music of Madras Special is inspired by jazz, classical South Indian ragas and tala
and talas as well as current improvised world music. On the basis of complex grooves and
melodies, the ensemble plans to develop a highly topical new music. Numerous
instruments of the Indian culture will be combined with the "European" sounds of bass, basso
"European" sounds of bass, guitar and western percussion instruments.
percussion instruments. Further Indo-European interfaces will be created through the re-composition of Indian melodies.
melodies, to which impressionist-inspired harmonies are added, which nevertheless remain committed to the modality of Indian music.
which nevertheless remains committed to the modality of Indian music.
The Ensemble Madras Special regards its work as a "work in progress", and in doing so
on the one hand as a continuous effort to deepen the musical
on the other hand as a continuous search for the expansion of musical horizons.
musical horizons. A conceptual element in this work process is the creation of breaks and the
The creation of breaks and the encounter of seemingly contradictory musical worlds is a conceptual element in this work process.