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broadwayworld.com Interview |
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 BWW Interviews: Suba Sankaran Talks FREE Waves Festival
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National Post Interview Oct 28/09 |
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"It will be beautiful, artistic mayhem..." |
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Singer Suba Sankaran shows that she can get to the emotional depth in both Indian classical singing and jazz. |
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Sankaran has a sensuous, supple voice...her sense of phrasing, expression and tone are immaculate.
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Sankaran has a superior voice, leading her listeners in and out of a trance, even with a wild jazz-scat to the accompanying Indian-tuned percussion, a vocal feat worth the price alone.
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"Mixing jazzy and funky licks with Indian spice, Autorickshaw singer Suba Sankaran has an uncanny ability to phrase a song.
Hearing her live would be a soulful experience. |
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Sankaran, her face full of drama, navigated the runs of the complex Eastern vocal lines, revealing both her technical virtuosity and a higher-level grasp of the work.
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Jambase (Montreal Jazz Fest review) |
Suba scatted over changes better than many strictly jazz singers I've heard, and the group's reworkings of "A Night In Tunisia" and "Caravan" were thrilling as well, substituting modern Indian beats for the Latin tinge.
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The star of the show was Sankaran, who used both jazz and Carnatic improvisation, including scat singing and vocal percussion, to offer the audience a range of musical experiences.
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Of course the centrepiece was lead singer, Suba Sankaran, very much the heart of the band, with her supple vocal variety, infectious smile, and entrancing musicality.
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Singer Suba Sankaran fills the classical tunes with a hypnotic earthiness, signaling her as an accomplished singer in the Carnatic, or South Indian, tradition of classical music. Her intonation when she brings in the vocal suppleness on “Purvi Tillana” is a study in crafting a rhythm that is at once robust and pliant....Sankaran scats with verve, lending the words a suppleness and bringing a heady effervescence that wafts balmily into “A Night in Tunisia”.
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"Caravan" shows off Sankaran's remarkable vocal range and abilities, though even more fresh and engaging is the cover of "A Night in Tunesia" with unexpected rhythmic changes, scatting, and a cool desert vibe....The band is tight, but what really makes this fusion work is Sankaran's voice. Though classically trained, she has a richer, smokier tone than classical Indian singers, one perfectly suited to autorickshaw's hybrid sound.
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