Ketan Bhatti: Nodding Terms Ketan Bhatti & Ensemble Adapter

• 1Insel Vor Tounsibuurg03:05
• 2Modul 502:43
• 3Funkstoff06:11
• 4Laughter Leading09:35
• 5Ferntendenz05:42
• 6Ferntendenz (Paul Frick Remix)05:32
• 7Hast Hussle03:44
• 8Nodding Terms03:20
• 9Kords02:24
• 10Umziehaktion04:53
• 11Umziehaktion (Brauer's Rumpelkammer Remix)04:30
• 12Modul 403:34
• 13Modul 4 (Ensemble Adapter Remix)03:13
• Total Runtime58:26

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New music and groove – does it work and does it exist? Musical crossover artist Ketan Bhatti thinks so. On “Nodding Terms” he melds contemporary chamber music with current club music. To this end, the composer, drummer and producer invited the German-Icelandic Ensemble Adapter into his studio and involved his studio neighbours Paul Frick and Jan Brauer from Brandt Brauer Frick in the production process. The musicians all studied classical instruments and know about pop. So acoustic traces become electronic tracks in a wondrous way. Dry grooves ow into iridescent shimmering ensemble sounds. The borders between genres and styles blur and dissolve. This is music which without fail makes the listener nod along – as per the album title. Not just because of its beat, but because it’s clever, too.

Antonis Anissegos, grand piano
Ketan Bhatti, drums, grand piano (tracks 04, 09)
Matthias Engler, percussions
Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir, harp
Kristjana Helgadóttir, flutes
Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson, bass clarinet
Milian Vogel, bass clarinet (tracks 01, 04, 09)
Andreas Voss, cello

Recorded & mixed by Jan Brauer at The Gym, Berlin
Mastered by Martin Ruch at Control Room, Berlin

Ketan Bhatti
Ketan Bhatti was born in New Delhi in 1981, grew up in Bielefeld, and now lives in Berlin, where he writes music for theatre and dance (including for the Deutsches Theater Berlin and Schauspiel Köln), as well as musicals (in cooperation with authors such as Feridun Zaimoglu and Roland Schimmelpfennig). Together with his brother Vivan Bhatti, he has produced and composed music for many years for productions of the Berlin breakdance group Flying Steps, which tours internationally. The “Flying Bach” production, for which the Bhatti brothers produced a hip-hop adaption of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, was awarded the Echo Klassik Special Prize.

Ensemble Adapter
Adapter is a German-Icelandic ensemble for contemporary music based in Berlin. The core of the group consists of a quartet with flute, clarinet, harp and percussion. Together with steady guest instrumentalists this core grows into chamber music settings with up to 10 players. On international concert tours and in the studio Adapter plays world premieres and other selected works of the recent past. The ensemble also produces and co-produces larger interdisciplinary projects – and is interested in exploring and testing the limits of transmedial approaches in various settings. In workshops Adapter transfers knowledge of how to write, study and per- form contemporary music to composers, instrumentalist and creatives worldwide. Adapter stays in touch with the latest developments in the differing scenes of contemporary creation - maintaining a progressive, authentic and powerful style.

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