Himalayas is an ode to the highest mountain range on Earth, with chants, Hindustani classical vocals, sitar interludes and myriad percussion sounds. The haunting Our Home features Sangeeta Kaur, the Vietnamese-American vocalist who won a Grammy of her own, too, this year.
Kej and Copeland have woven diverse soundscapes and elaborate ambient textures by incorporating scores of musicians into the mix.
He made a song Jai Kisaan (2020) with the tribal farmers of Andhra, and is a supporter and ambassador for a number of UN bodies.ĪLSO READ | ‘Art will change with time, so the shastra can’t stay behind’: Prabha Atre Not only does he prefer public transport to cars and gets his carbon footprint audited every quarter, he’s worked with the government of Andhra Pradesh to promote “zero-budget natural farming”, a technique that avoids the use of chemicals and pesticides. It stems from Kej’s deep interest in environmental activism. The result, after almost a year, is Divine Tides - the nine-song album that’s an ode to the natural world, the resilience of its species. Over a year, the two kept sending Web files to each other, phone calls, Zoom e-meets, remote recording sessions and Kej changing his sleep cycle to work with Copeland’s Los Angeles timings. In fact, Kej and Copeland met in person for the first time only seven days ahead of the 64th Grammy Awards. Divine Tides is also an album that was entirely created online. To Kej’s astonishment Copeland agreed after listening to some of the album’s music. It was his British friend and mentor Ralph Simon, a music-publishing veteran, who got Kej and Copeland introduced. 2) After the win, for Divine Tides (Lahiri Music) in the Best New Age Album category, with collaborator, the drummer of the yesteryear new-wave band The Police, Stewart Copeland at the 64th Grammy Awards in Las Vegas I wanted to overreach because he’s somebody who’s shaped my career, by my just listening to his music,” he says. The first person who came to mind was Stewart Copeland. This had to be somebody who was not just a virtuoso musician but somebody who would help in the writing process, too. The more I created, the more I kept feeling the need for a collaborator. “The pandemic forced us all to stay indoors and that gave me the opportunity to create a new album. As Kej grew as a musician after his first Grammy win, he was keen on doing a follow-up to the album but concerts and travel kept him from focussing on making music.
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