Strings Across the Seas

By: Adwitiya Atreya Kai Oojal & Yuhan
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  • Welcome to Strings Across The Seas, where musicians who travel from their home country to another, talk about their experiences and tell us what made them do it. We listen to their music and their dreams. We speak to musicians who have found their passion in stringed instruments that are not well-known globally, but hold great significance in certain traditions, cultures and folklores. These unique instruments find themselves in pages of history books, and soon, our podcast.
    Adwitiya, Atreya, Kai, Oojal & Yuhan
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  • “Indian Music with an English Accent” — Sitar and Jonathan Mayer

    “Indian Music with an English Accent” — Sitar and Jonathan Mayer
    May 20 2022

    In our second episode, we explore London-born Jonathan Mayer’s relationship with Indian classical music, and how he gradually fell in love with the sitar owing to his Indian roots. His journey captures the harmony of Western and the melodies of Indian classical music, and how he traded the violin for this Indian instrument, enriching the way he sees and feels music.

    Here’s Jonathan, one of the UK’s most prominent sitar players, who has not only composed orchestral symphonies and performed Indo-Jazz music, but has also worked on actor Riz Ahmed's hip-hop project.
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    27 mins
  • “Like a Banjo” — Shamisen and Hibiki Ichikawa

    “Like a Banjo” — Shamisen and Hibiki Ichikawa
    Apr 29 2022
    In our first episode, we talked to Hibiki Ichikawa to discover his relationship with the shamisen — a traditional stringed instrument from Japan, and how he ended up staying in London. From composing music for an Academy Award nominated film to performing at the British Museum, and even collaborating with Nike, his journey has been nothing but inspiring. We bring to you, Europe’s only Tsugaru shamisen player, all the way from Japan. To listen to more of Hibiki Ichikawa's music on shamisen, you can check him out on Spotify and Instagram. 
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    27 mins

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