LATEST RELEASE: ‘THERE IS BEAUTY, THERE ALREADY’ (OTHERLAND RECORDS, NOVEMBER 2025)
“Played with machine-like precision, but sounding resoundingly human, insistent melodies slowly start to emerge from its repetitive figures, circling motives and interlocking canons….An original musical force determined not to repeat himself “– MOJO -★★★★
“This record is an antidote to our atomised attention spans. It artfully blends acoustic and electronic elements to craft a riveting sensory experience that is also moving emotionally; a sublime paradox” – Songlines ★★★★
” A stand-alone meditative journey through sound and time – introspective, ritualistic and quietly powerful” – UK Vibe
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Sarathy Korwar is a drummer, composer, producer and bandleader. Korwar has established himself as one of the most original and compelling voices in the UK jazz scene.
His music fuses jazz, electronics, Indian folk and classical influences with a focus on decoloniality, community, race and transcendence. His latest album, KALAK (REVIEW), is an Indo-futurist manifesto that celebrates a rich South Asian culture of music and literature and urges a cure for historical amnesia.
Celebrating the melodic power of the drum ensemble, the new album “There Is Beauty, There Already“, released on Otherland on 7 November 2025, follows Sarathy’s 2022 Indofuturist manifesto KALAK with a deeply immersive longform suite of percussion-led compositions.
Playing as a 40-minute suite of hypnotic and transcendent drum improvisations, the album beats through a repetitive, circular structure that brings to mind Indian folk music, jazz drum ensembles like Max Roach’s M’Boom and the contemporary classical minimalism of Terry Riley and Steve Reich. From the undulating bass tones of the tabla to the tonal varieties of South Indian clay pot ghatam, the snare drum snap of the drum kit, and shades of electronic texture through the Buchla Easel, Korwar’s ensemble bubbles and flows through a stream of steady rhythm, forever in motion like the ceaseless energy of a river.
Korwar has been the recipient of an AIM Award, MOJO Jazz Album of the Year and The Guardian Best Global Album of 2022 – as well as a Double Grammy Award nomination (in 2025) for his work with long time collaborator Anoushak Shankar.
Korwar has toured and collaborated with the likes of Anoushka Shankar, Kamasi Washington, Metropole Orchestra and Shabaka Hutchings and performed at festivals/venues including Sydney Opera House, North Sea Jazz Festival, London Jazz Festival, Dekmantel and many more. His music has been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Quietus, Pitchfork and Rolling Stone along with support from NPR, KEXP, BBC Radio 1, Radio 3 and 6 Music.
