Sukarma and Jan Fadnes

Sukarma is one of the most talented and innovative groups playing classical and folk music in Nepal today. Sukarma's philosophy is two-fold. Firstly, the musicians seek to serve music itself by devoting themselves to their art and by celebrating it as the symbol of their own Sukarma. Secondly, they seek to inspire appreciation of traditional music in young generations by playing raga and indigenous folk music in a way that is faithful to the spirit of the music but has a modern flavor. One way in which this is accomplished is by allowing folk and raga music to freely converse, enriching and embellishing each other. Also the unusual convergence of classical and folk instruments, represented by the various solo instruments "sitar, sarangi, flute and Tabla", presents a broadening of possibilities for dynamic musical expression.


The Norwegian jazz pianist Jan Fadnes has played with different groups in Norway, both as bandleader and hired musician. In an attempt to combine a music and an academic career, he moved to Nepal in January to gain experience as a trainee at the NGO Martin Chautari and later the Norwegian Embassy. At the same it did not take long before he got acquainted with the inns and outs of the Kathmandu jazz scene. As he most enjoys composing music himself, he will at this concert try to convey some of his impressions of this meeting and “dip into the sea of music” as Drubesh aptly put it.

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