Goa is set to sway to the rhythm of jazz as Jazz India Circuit’s Goa International Jazz Live
Festival (GIJLF) 2017 will take place on December 9 and 10, 2017 at the Stone
Water Eco Resort at the Santarem beach, South Goa. Organised by Teamwork Arts,
GIJLF is an experimental, up-tempo, funky celebration of jazz identified with
diverse genres like punk, funk hip-hop, R&B and other forms of music.
Internationally renowned jazz drummer Jojo Mayer of Switzerland will headline
GIJLF 2017 with his music collective, NERVE.
Along with Mayer, popular Swiss-born
French trumpeter Erik Truffaz, Mumbai-based electronic musician Riatsu, DCF: A
Tribute to Madfingers, Kefaya, The Latination, Pol Belardi’s Urban 5, Florian
Favre Trio and Vasundhra Vee will also enthral audiences at the festival.
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Listed by the Modern Drummer Magazine as
one of the ‘50 Greatest Drummers of All Time’, Jojo Mayer has toured with Monty
Alexander and played back up for jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie and Nina
Simone. His signature style of blending genres like drum ’n’ bass and jungle
has made him a legend in his own right, having rocked most of the prominent
jazz venues.
Speaking at the press meet, Sanjoy K Roy,
Managing Director, Teamwork Arts, said, “We are happy to be back in Goa for the
second leg of Jazz India Circuit. Goa has a special place in India’s jazz
history and the response from the music loving community of the state gives us
the impetus to bring the best of jazz.”
Similarly, Swiss-born trumpet player Erik Truffaz has gained
prominence in the international jazz community for fusing the post-beebop and
early fusion styles of trumpet legend Miles Davis with more contemporary forms
of music such as electronica, acid rock, and hip-hop.
Riatsu (recording name of Shadaab Kadri) is an ambient
electronic musician from Mumbai. With his drone metal band Pangea, Riatsu
explores soundtrack music and background scores for visual imagination in a sea
of sound that stretches from ambient techno to dark ambient.
‘DCF: A Tribute to Madfingers’ is a project to explore
funk/acid/jazz/ hip-hop and drum-n-bass. Conceived by Karan Joseph and Lindsay
Dmello, Madfingers is based on studio jams that the duo translated into two EPs
titled ‘Its Only Music’.
Also performing are London-based ‘guerrilla jazz’ band Kefaya,
an eclectic group of immigrants, travellers and international artistes seeking
to find common ground between folk traditions of the world and cutting-edge
sound rooted firmly in the 21st century.
Kefaya’s versatility and wide knowledge of musical traditions
have led to collaborations with internationally acclaimed artistes, including
legendary Indian vocalist Shankar Mahadevan.
The Latination is one of those rare, genuine Latin-jazz acts in
the country that blend salsa and rumba with contemporary jazz, dance-compelling
Afro rhythms with strong, sophisticated harmonic sounds and Caribbean melodies.
Pol Belardi’s Urban 5 takes on a groove-driven, exciting blend
between jazz, soul, hip-hop and electronic music with a colourful set of fresh,
thriving original compositions; and yet another Swiss wonder. Thrilling beats
and bass lines mingle with subtle harmonies, lyrical melodies and clever
lyrics, topped up with the powerful, yet sensitive and honest voice of singer
Mara Minjoli.
Pianist Florian Favre of the Florian Favre Trio creates
compositions which are not only refined, intense, and imprinted with a mastered
minimalism, but demonstrate a will to transverse stylistic barriers. The
musical agility of his talented accomplices Manu Hagmann (bass) and Arthur
Alard (drums), allows the trio to exploit a rich palette that offers the
opportunity for remarkable innovation. Vasundhara Vee is one of India’s top
Western vocalists specialising in jazz, soul, RnB, blues and funk. Her new
project ‘Merkaba’, with legendary guitar player Sanjay Divecha, has a blazing
line-up which includes Gino Banks, Sheldon D’Silva and Karan Joseph.
The
GIJLF experience promises excellent food and drink stalls, jam and acapella
sessions, water sports and martial arts, all leading up to the open-air jazz
concerts in the evening.
