We invited three musicians into the production room — a veteran harmonium player who toured Jaffna in the eighties, a session guitarist from Bern, and a twenty-two-year-old producer who makes beats on a laptop in Winterthur.
The plan was a forty-minute conversation about melody. What we recorded ran past two hours, most of it disagreement, all of it worth keeping.
“You can change the instrument. You cannot change what a Tamil melody is supposed to do to you.”
Highlights air across ராக ராகம் this month, with the full session going out as a weekend special.
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