LONDON JAZZ FRINGE FESTIVAL - MANAS | FLY

What kinds of sounds and musical influences are you going to be experimenting with at the London Jazz Fringe Festival?
Electroacoustic music, brain dance, world music, rock, classical contemporary and traditional Mexican music (in other words all music) are currently our most important influences.

"...a native Mexican point of view, without national identity playing the front role in the music, working happily aware of our 'personal' perspective in contemporary music

The sounds themselves are all kinds of samples and electronic processes, ranging from real drum samples to environmental sound and using common sound transformation tools such as distortion, chorus, pitch bend, transposition etc... plus other high quality ones such as GRM tools.

We also play using multi-channel surround systems, at least quadraphonic sound (venue permitting), because we believe this is an outstanding aspect of music technology not currently explored properly, or not as much as we think it should (multi-channel surround sound is in fact old, but only recently affordable and easy to use).

How did you get involved with the festival?
Due to a concert at the Ritzy in June 2004 for a LatinAlternativa night, where we met Ed Simpson, the organiser of London Jazz Fringe Festival, who believed in us, helped us to get some more concerts, and with whom we have developed a special link.

If anyone is unfamiliar with your work, can you give them a description and some musical career highlights/hype?
Live laptop and percussion music plus video and video performance. Sound design, experimental music combined with strong and irregular rhythms, incorporating into the music our built-in ability as humans to localize sound (multi-channel surround sound), plus fixed and live art video performance by a specialized visual artist, who is 'part of the band'. All of the above from a native Mexican point of view, without national identity playing the front role in the music, working happily aware of our 'personal' perspective in contemporary music.

We are musically educated in contemporary 'classical' composition, up to doctoral level, and as individual composers the members of this band have achieved international prizes in contemporary and electronic/electroacoustic music such as the 'Prix de la Region de Aquitaine 2000', Bordeaux, France, 'Luigi Russolo 2001', Italy, Residence prize IMED Bourges 2001, France, and the 'Under 30' project for Kronos Quartet 2003, USA.

Name one essential non-jazz record that everyone should listen to and tell us why it is so special.
'Repons' by Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble InterContemporain. This is dense contemporary musical language at its peak, creating a coherent and mature proposal in new music. And just to break prejudices on 'classical' composers as being old, this work employs the best music technology of its time and has the vision to use sound localization as part of the music and live-concert concept. Finally, all this without mentioning the outstanding level of performance by Ensemble InterContemporain.

If Bono is ill and needs someone to stand in for him the next time he is asked to address the world's leaders, what would you tell them?
Next time it would be better to be honest and say 'yes we want to take over the world, dominate it fully and get even richer, making everyone believe we are the good ones and the rest (4/5ths of the world) are the very bad ones' than using the cheapest strategies to try and fool all of us. Thank you.

Manas open the London Jazz Fringe Festival at the Ritzy Cafe on 13 November, 2004

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BIO-DATA
Excellence in chromatic Santoor Vadan in any scale has justly earned ROHAN KRISHAN RATAN name, fame and Kudos at his budding prime. He is a young scale changer Santoor player to play the instrument in such a way which produces various moods of same Ragas or Songs.

He is capable of playing the santoor with eyes closed and even after covering the string of the santoor with a fabric. He has the ability to play the santoor sitting on the opposite side rare feat indeed. His rendition of cine songs on santoor touches the heart of the listener. Rohan stood first in the All India Music competition {age Group} conducted by Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad. Honble Governor of Bihar Dr. A.R. Kidwai awarded him the State Honour Award. He stood first in the state level music competition conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Acadamy, besides being awarded the Kala Shree and Udaiman Pratibha Shruti Puraskar at the tender age of 10. Recently Rohan was conferred the upadhi Sur Mani in classical music from Sur Singar Samsad, Mumbai at the age of 19. He awarded scholarship from CCRT, New Delhi. Ministers and Organizations have also honoured Rohan with appreciation Letters and awards.

Many leading newspapers have published his outstanding talents. Nav Bharat Times headlined an edition with a distinguished caption Kam Umra Ustad when Rohan was only seven. He passed the general audition of CMA with A grade & All India Radio with B High Grade and performed in concert programme conducted by AIR.He also performed in Doordarshan in Patna, Lucknow, New Delhi and Bangalore. He has performed alongside world famous artists Bhajan Samrat Anup Jalota, Gazal Singer Jagjit Singh, Ghulam Ali, cine playback singers Suresh Wadkar, UshaMangeshkar. The great Music Maestro Late Naushad has appreciated his talents. Rohan has played the santoor for the back ground music adopted in tele serials and cine songs.

Besides performing in India he has carved a niche for himself with performances in France { Paris, Marseille, Cannes, Lyon, nice, Claymont } Switzerland, Holland, {Netherlands}, Belgium, Austria, Qatar, Israel, Kuwait, Oman , Germany, Mauritius. Rohan%u2019s God-given talent, hard work and love for the art has promoted his delectable renditions of difficult Ragas in different taals like Maru Bihag, Mishra Shivranjani, Basant Bahar, Kirvani etc.

Rohan was instructed in music by renowned Gurus like Shri Rana Muzumdar, Shri Naresh Kr. Sinha, Shri Siddhanath Mishra and Shri Bale Khan. His early training and inspiration are founded in the inherent talent of his father PRAKASH KHATRY who besides being knowledgeable in Ragas, is an experienced musician himself and has a Bhashkar degree in Tabla.

At present Rohan is pursuing his ambition to attain better perfection under the advanced guidance of Padam Vibhushan Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Mumbai.
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