Pelva Naik
Pelva is a solo woman vocalist of the ancient Indian classical form of music named - DHRUPAD- a genre of music that has been largely dominated by male musicians on performance spaces for centuries in India.
Pelva is a student of life and music. She sings shares teaches and performs all over the Globe. She studied the ancient Indian classical vocal form of music from the legendary maestro Ustaad Zia Fariduddin Dagar.
To name a few performances, Pelva has performed on prestigious platforms in India and overseas such as- Theatre De La Ville (Paris), Festival De Fes ( Morocco), Ravenna Festival (Italy), Darbar Festival ( London).
Currently she is looking to strengthen her path upon newer sounds and feelings that are challenging, after years of rest under the large and comforting shade of the classical forms. She now works on creating and learning new ways, sounds and visuals that are rooted and empowering to the inner being of the individual and collective at large, beyond borders.
No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 4.
For in the realm of Hunger, the world is prosaic: The Full Moon appears to be a scorched ‘Roti’. - A verse from হে মহাজীবন O Great life- poem by Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926-1947) A poet from West Bengal. Hunger and beauty do not sit under the same roof. The hungry one, the homeless one, do not swim in the sea of imagination, beauty on the night of the full moon. All they have in mind is hunger. To them, the full moon is a ‘Jhalsana’-burnt out- ‘Roti’- Round shaped Indian bread.
This piece combines analogue synthesizers, contemporary frame drumming from Italy and Ireland with womens voices from the Druphad tradition of North India and Karelian joiking from Finland. The piece explores the conflict between the drive of unrelenting progress and novelty with the broader rhythms of human experience and the natural world. The electronics create a pulse for tamburello, bodhrán, udu, daf and voices to move against pulling and stretching time towards a resolution that never quite comes .
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