Seeing Sarathy Korwar with Binker and Moses last year was a good introduction to the transcendental tabla player who plays Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards in Camden. Ezra Collective also appear among the 2017 line-up of the annual event to be held at Koko later this month. Sarathy in India had made field recordings of the Sidi Troupe of Ratanpur whose vocals and percussion underpinned his debut Day To Day which was released later in the year. He began playing tabla aged 10 and still in his teens moved to Pune to study for a degree in environmental science but instead dedicated his time to music practising tabla, playing drums and doing sessions. 

Moving to London he trained as a classical tabla player and graduated from SOAS with a masters in performance later hooking up with some of the most advanced new generation of breakthrough Britjazz scene musicians including Sons of Kemet’s saxist/leader Shabaka Hutchings and the charismatic Indo-fusion clarinettist Arun Ghosh. Ezra Collective, listen above, like Korwar, also surfaced in 2016. Their Tomorrow’s Warriors-mentored style, however, aims up from a different angle, as eclectic rap, gospel and bop flavour their debut EP Chapter 7.