• artist: Jaipur Kawa Brass Band, Hameed Khan
• event type: Trade Fair
• start date type: 28 Oct 2004
• time: 22.15
• city/area: Essen
• venue: Zeche Zollverein, Schacht XII
• country: Germany
• event submitted by: Kawa Cultural Centre

Sound the brass and the drum!
Who has never enjoyed the frenzy of a brass band.
In India, as everywhere else, it appeals to its audience.
Hailing from a long family lineage of musicians and sharing his life between Jaipur and Paris
Hameed Khan Kawa, a tabla maestro and artistic director of Musafir, is familiar with this style, since in
Rajasthan:its native place, a brass band is a very popular feature of life itself.
Exposed to different music styles, such as jazz, Western traditional music, Indian music... Hameed
developed the idea of creating a brass band of his own to present the fantastic Indian brass band.

He selected the most talented musicians from the best local bands of Rajasthan, heritage of the
British colonization, with a repertoire blending popular themes of Bollywood films, traditional music of
Rajasthan with distinctively Gypsy sound and even adding a touch of Hindustani classical music...
to deliver an unexpected performance.
The melodies and songs are developed in a very refined way, with well-structured solo performances
and dazzling improvisations on the clarinet and the trumpet. The percussionists elaborate fast and
spontaneous playing with the sophisticated Indian rhythms, providing accompaniment to the Gypsy
danseuse, the fakir in his astonished acts and of course the band itself.

Jaipur Kawa Brass Band has firmly established itself on both the local and international music scenes,giving successful performances in many festivals such as Roskilde Festival 2004, Dunya Festival, Mar de Musica, Forum des Cultures Barcelona 2004, Venice Carnival 2004, La Carnavalcade (World Cup of Football in Paris), Expo Suisse 2002, Paléo Festival, Sfinsk Festival, WDR, BBC Radio 3...

All together with an amazing and playful energy and humor, the ten artists of this extraordinary brass
band, wearing traditional clothes play on stage or walk in parade and offer nothing less than the soul
of the contemporary Indian's feast.

Jaipur Kawa Brass Band is now recording its second album ...


date: 2004.10.28 -