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‘I want to play for my own people’, says percussion maestro Trilok Gurtu
Updated On: 29 January, 2023 09:31 AM IST | Mumbai | Nidhi Lodaya
Virtuoso percussionist Trilok Gurtu hopes his collaborative project with an Israeli orchestra will be liked enough for him to play in his home country more
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Israeli orchestra, Castles in Time has 24 instrumentalists containing woodwinds, brass, strings, electric guitars, bass guitar, drum set, percussions, synthesisers, harp, singers working with analogue effects, a computer player, and a conductor
Percussion maestro and composer Trilok Gurtu, hailed as one of percussion arts’ greatest innovators of all time, is known for his work with jazz giants such as John Mclaughlin, Don Cherry, Pharaoh Sanders, Dave Holland, Jan Garbarek, as well as Indian greats like Ustad Zakir Hussain, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Sultan Khan. He will perform in February with an Israeli orchestra for the first time in India.
Castles in Time, the Israeli orchestra was formed in 2015, and originally comprises 24 instrumentalists. In 2017, at the Mekudeshet Festival in Jerusalem, Gurtu and the orchestra collaborated for an improvisational jazz fusion set—Harmonies in Time. The 90-minute-long composition will now travel to the city, with 11 members of the orchestra. After performing in Mumbai, Gurtu and the orchestra will be travelling to Delhi. “Matan [Daskal, co-founder of the orchestra] knows my music quite well,” says Gurtu, “and what I do, and asked me if I was interested. So I went to Israel a couple of times and it clicked.” Naveen Deshpande, founder and director of the events agency Mixtape, heard Harmonies in Time and collaborated with the Israeli Embassy to bring them here.
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