‘Watersmeet’ is a suite of new music composed and arranged by Mohamed Assani for Vancouver’s Indian Summer Festival. This project brought to life a musical collaboration between Hindustani and Western musicians as a metaphoric meeting between rivers. Individually, rivers are…
I’ve had the highly enjoyable opportunity to curate an ongoing segment on CBC Radio’s North by Northwest with Sheryl MacKay. I come on the show every month or two and chat with Sheryl about a different aspect of South Asian…
Reprinted from “The Word is Bond“ The Word is Bond has asked independent musicians from all walks of life to share their experiences coping with COVID-19 during this very tumultuous time. Our sixth voice is the Canadian-based sitarist, composer, and…
Scheherazade, the fictional narrator of the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights), is one of literature’s greatest creations. She and her stories – Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba – are a touchstone of Arab culture, that have been passed on…
The project brings together myself as a composer/sitarist working in the genre of Hindustani Classical music, alongside John Oliver – one of Canada’s leading composers of music for orchestras, chamber ensembles and electroacoustic media. Together we have created a composition…
One of the unique characteristics of Indian music is the assignment of definite times of the day and night for performing Ragas (modes/melodies). It is believed that the Raga can only appear at the height of its melodic beauty if…
In December 2016, nineteen artists were hand-picked from around the world to work on a unique collaborative musical piece in honour of the Aga Khan’s eightieth birthday. (The Aga Khan, Prince Shah Karim Al-Husseini, is the imam or spiritual leader…
A Collaboration with Rumi Interpreter, Coleman Barks “Today, like every other day, we wake up frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love, be what we do….