London International Arts Festival

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Live Looping performance using Ableton as part of London International Arts Festival.

Jon Sterckx / Drumscapes & Rekesh Chauhan double bill event.
2nd November 2016 at Vortex, 11 Gillett Square, Dalston, N16 8AZ London, United Kingdom. 7.30pm

More info & booking: http://liaf.co.uk/lineup

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Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1mHY2x ... C9F21A5951

Percussionist Jon Sterckx skilfully brings percussion from across the globe together with 21st century technology to create a unique blend of rhythmic soundscapes, bouncy world rhythms & high energy drumming. All instruments are played, sampled, mixed & processed live on stage in a synthesis of traditional musicianship and live electronics.
A hugely popular act at festivals including WOMAD, Larmer Tree, Beautiful Days & MondoMix Festival and at the UK's major multicultural events including Cardiff Mela, Glasgow Mela & Belfast Mela.

"Few percussionists, no matter how skilled, can captivate and keep an eager festival audience with a solo performance but Jon Sterckx's stunning Drumscapes are a masterclass in control and rhythm that hook the audiences from the first beats and carry them through to an invariably ecstatic climax.
Centred on the tabla, darabuka and riq (a Middle Eastern tambourine) Jon combines beats and rhythms from across the globe with cutting edge sampling and innovative vocal sculpting, building layered soundscapes that mix the experimental with the traditional and creating a uniquely intoxicating, exhilarating and, many say, trance inducing performance quite unlike any other." Musicport Festival 2015.

Rekesh Chauhan is a British Indian pianist and composer. Having studied western classical music on both the guitar and piano from an early age he went on to train in Indian classical music under the tutelage of his father, Rajesh Chauhan.

Having begun his musical journey supporting artists including MOBO award-winning jazz pianist Zoe Rahman he went on to collaborate with Mercury Prize award-winner Talvin Singh at Ronnie Scotts – within a few years he was a featured introducing artist on national BBC radio, performed with his own ensembles in arenas to over 60,000 people and scooped the Eastern Electronic Festival prize. With all of these feathers under his cap before reaching his twenties it is hardly surprising the young talent is today a highly sought after performer.
His style defines the reverberation amongst the new generation of listeners of contemporary world music as his music mellifluously amalgamates both eastern and western flavours.