Mathias Duplessy x Mukhtiyar Ali - Jeena Jeena | Sounds of Society

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Mukhtiyar Ali, a Sufi exponent from Pugal, a village at the border of Pakistan and Rajasthan started working with Mathias Duplessy from France, a few years ago and soon realised they had a common language in music. They evolved their own style, inspired by Rajasthani Folk, Flamenco, Blues, Reggae, Africa, Japanese and Mangolian music.

We were able to get them together one beautiful afternoon in bombay for this episode of Sounds of Society.

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#SoundsOfSociety is a project to document and present the sounds of today. It is a step towards a genre-free, no-rules, and an all-inclusive approach to presenting music-making and its associated performing arts.

Music that represents the social and cultural milieu in which you live. We are the sounds of today. We are the Sounds of Society.

Each episode is carefully curated, and spontaneous. Musicians come together for a few hours, and create the magic.

Presented by - Society Tea
In Association with - Urban Beat Project & blueFROG
Curated by - Laiq Qureshi & Ruchika Tiku

In this episode | Jeena Jeena

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Mathias Duplessy
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A self-taught musician, Mathias has been composing and playing guitar since he was six years old. His first passion was for classical music, in particular Ravel, who remains an endless source of inspiration. Then he discovered jazz music, and played Miles Davis and John Coltrane on his Walkman on his way to school.

He left home at age 18 and very quickly began playing on stage with some of the biggest names on the World Music scene in Paris… He regularly travelled to Grenada, where he learned to play flamenco with the gypsies. Mathias also learned and invented new right-hand techniques (rasaguedo) that he later used on stage and in his compositions.

Mathias is also loves cinema and regularly composes for movies and documentaries, and directs his own videos. In 2014, the music he composed for the Indian movie Finding Fanny, received two nominations for best background score (Film Fair Award & Radio Mirchi Award). His work is heavily influenced by composers from the 60s and 70s, such as Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Michel Legrand or Vladimir Cosma



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Mukhtiyar Ali
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Mukhtiyar Ali is a folk singer from Bikaner in Rajasthan. He was born in a small village called Pugal on the North West frontier of India and belongs to the semi-nomadic community of Mirasis, who have been the traditional carriers of the oral tradition of Sufiana Qalam in India.

Mukhtiar blends the Rajasthani folk idiom with refined classicism to sing the poetry of Kabir, Mira and Sufi poets such as Bulleh Shah. Through the Kabir project, Mukhtiyar was spotted by world music circuits and made his international debut in July 2007. Since then, he has performed in Belgium, Sweden, China, Canada, Germany and France. He has also lent his voice to a few films including Tashan (2008), Bombay Summer (2008), Kathai (2010) and Delhi in a Day (2011).



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Video Credits
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An Urban Beat Project Production

Director: Varun Mehra
DoP: Rohan Sabharwal & Varun Mehra
Editor: Varun Mehra
Sound Consultant: Sound.codes
Animation: Kalp Sanghvi
Logo Design: Rahul Nair
Astons: Laiq Qureshi
Location: The Hive, Bandra - Mumbai.

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