The music of the ‘Eastern Flowers’ trio makes South-Indian drum expressions of Konakol coexist with Western European polyphony or driving rhythms of American Jazz and fuses numerous instruments of Indian cultural descent with the sounds of string bass and (primed) piano.
The project is centred around the ‘Eastern Flowers’ Jazz trio, which was founded one and a half years back. The individual members of the combo each have an Indian as well as a German personal background: String bass player Christian Raymond and piano player Jarry Singla both are of German-Indian descent, having been born and raised in North-Rhine Westphalia. The trio is completed by renowned percussionist Ramesh Shotham from Chennai, who has been living in Europe since the early 80s and is now based in Cologne.
The music resulting from the collaboration of the three makes South-Indian drum expressions of Konakol coexist with Western European polyphony or driving rhythms of American Jazz and fuses numerous instruments of Indian cultural descent with the sounds of string bass and (primed) piano. It furthermore ventures to explore various cultural areas such as the Ukraine, Japan and Morocco.