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ShivaNova is a dimension of new musical excitement, bringing together
virtuoso improvising musicians from Europe, Asia and Africa. The
creation of Priti Paintal, ShivaNova's music integrates elements of
jazz, classical, Asian, ambient and club dance styles to create a
sound-world that is immediately accessible yet completely unique.
ShivaNova is a British–based performing and recording world music
company, founded in 1988, that has an established reputation for
excellence and quality, reflected in our outstanding line-up of
internationally renowned musicians including composer, pianist and
Artistic Director, Priti Paintal; Sanchita Pal and Yogeswaram
(vocals); Rowland Sutherland; Alex Housego (flutes); Jean Toussaint
(saxophone); Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, and Shabhaz Khan (tablas); RN
Prakash (south Indian percussion); Jyotsna srikanth (indian violin),
Sonya Slany and Chandrashekhar (violin).
The company has toured nationally and internationally, including sell
out performances at London's Jazz Cafe. ShivaNova's first CD -
POLYGAMY, featuring Orphy Robinson, was featured as a BBC Music
Magazine Pick of the Year and in Classic CDs choice of the best in
contemporary music. The company's last album, URBAN MANTRAS received
extensive enthusiastic reviews in national press and a further album
and tour followed.
In 2000, ShivaNova also established SugarNova a mainstream dance music
arm of the group. Its debut single, Over and Over, reached the top 20
of the Music Week Club Charts. ShivaNova aims to bring together
musicians and artists from a variety of cultural traditions –
classical and pop, urban and folk, jazz and ambient.
In 2001 ShivaNova launched 2 new CDs - FLYING TO THE SUN and
MOONLIGHTING which were followed by a national tour. The company has
continued to develop it's work with collaborators including a UK-
French collaboration supported by the European Commission with French
contemporary dance artists, Compagnie Myriam Dooge. This project THE
GLOBAL FEAST saw a music-dance-visual installation spectacular taking
place in unusual spaces in Kent and Calais from 2000 - 2002.
ShivaNova's main objective is to create new work (musical and cross-
artform) from diverse classical traditions, to widen the audience for
its own work and for these traditions, and to inspire new ways of
perceiving and listening.
Its artistic policy is to bring together high quality musicians and
artists from differing traditions, mainly from classical Asian,
African and western backgrounds, for performances and education and
workshop programmes in schools and the wider community. As a creative
producer it promotes its own performances, presents guest performances
and makes recordings.
Instruments used by ShivaNova include sitar, sarod, Indian and Middle
Eastern harps, voice, tabla, Indian and Western violins, cello,
piano/keyboards, saxophone, flutes, percussion, African kora and drums
and Chinese instruments.
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