New concert dates: RAVI and his band plus collaborations with leading world music musicians including the reunion of The Afro-Indian Project (featuring Tarun Bhattacharya and Ravi) visit the DATES page on this site for more details

Overtone Singing : watch this space for new projects and workshops including residential workshop led by Ravi at retreat centre in Wales April '08 (visit dates page on this website for details)

View concert footage of RAVI and his band by visiting: www.myspace.com/koracolours

" Neuneneu" a CD by Ravi and Marlui Miranda features indigenous Amazonian songs that Brazilian legend, Marlui Miranda has researched and is available via Proper Distribution (in UK) worldwide via Felmay and to purchase online: BUY "NEUNENEU" NOW

or by cheque for £13, payable & sent to: JP Freeman, WORLD FUSION PRODUCTIONS, 21 Montagu Sq, London, W1H 2LF

The best kora-meets-Brazilian collabouration you'll ever hear; a series of haunting, trance-inducing tapestries of repeated harmony and delicate melody, as lulling as a warm tropical sea and as rich and satisfying as the best from the ECM catalogue. Extraordinary SONGLINES

view NEUNENEU videos by visiting
http://www.myspace.com/neuneneu

THE "NEUNENEU"PROJECT

Marlui Miranda and Ravi pictured below perfoming as a duo at The Eden Project

THE NEUNENEU TOUR JULY 06 with Marlui Miranda, RAVI and the Mehenaku Indians

Read the Independant, Guardian and New Statesman articles on the NEUNENEU page on this web site

From The Guardian article by Pascal Wyse: "As cultural melting pots go, it's pretty rich: a shaman from the Amazonian Mehinako tribe, eating a pizza in an Italian restaurant, in Brazil, accompanied by, among others, a Manchester-born musician who specialises in a West African instrument. But culturally, Yanuno Mehinako - the shaman - is the one furthest away from home. Along with his four sons he has traded his village for the concrete jungle of Sao Paulo - the first step on a much bigger journey, in which members of the tribe will leave Brazil for the first time to perform their music in the UK"

From the review by Phil Meadley in The Independant: "The term "world music" was invented for nights like this. Aside from Ravi's virtuoso kora playing and Marlui Miranda's passionate interpretation of Brazilian Indian music, this UK tour is to showcase the spirit dance and chanting of the Amazonian Mehinaku tribe, five of whom are here tonight, performing in the the UK for the first time"

* "Neuneneu" (Humanity) the project Ravi has developed with Marlui Miranda was a UK CMN tour (Contemporary Music Network) in which they performed Amazonian indian music with Brazilian indians from the Mehenaku Tribe

NEUNENEU pre-tour rehearsals in sao paolo

"THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN PROJECT" by RAVI

* Ravi's album The Afro-Brazilian Project (ARC Music) was recorded when Ravi spent six months in Rio de Janeiro. While there, Ravi met living legend Hermeto Pascual at his home in Rio de Janeiro (there is more information on this website on the Afro-Brazil Project and Articles pages)

RAVI with Gilberto Gil, Brazil's most well known singer and Minister of Culture

Praise for "The Afro-Brazilian Project"

Straight No Chaser "The kora brings more of the rising and falling of the sea to the already sea-like samba. It fits in with guitars like it was always a natural part of Brazilian music. Ravi's compositions are delicate and downbeat, a groove is built on "Berimbao' with an angelic wordless vocal chorus.The meditative "Amazonian Journey one" shows the beauty of Marlui Miranda's voice in a very pure and pristine moment, particularly because of the grace and poise of her tune"

for more go to BRAZIL

Ravi with Brazilian legend and genius Hermeto Pascual at his home in Rio de Janeiro

RAVI has produced the latest CD by 60's legend, Bhagavan Das, who is featured in the spiritual classic "Be Here Now" www.bhagavandas.com

RAVI pictured below as part of a team producing the new CD by Miten & Deva Premal www.mitendevapremal.com

RAVI on stage with MITEN and DEVA PREMAL in Glastonbury

Late Junction

* A track from 'Spirals' by The Overtone Choir, which Ravi recorded and produced, is the leading track on a compilation by BBC radio 3's Late Junction, is featured in the hit theatrical production "The Elephant Vanishes" (The Barbican and The Lincoln Centre) and in the BAFTA award winning film "Toucing the Void". For more info go to Overtone Singing

For information on the kora and other instruments go to instruments

TUNING THE KORA

The Afro-Indian Project

Praise for the CD "The Afro-Indian Project" by Ravi

outstanding playing.............an accessible and entertaining instrumental fusion recording
fRoots Magazine

'Ravi has pulled off a seriously good world music album.....one of the most interesting world music projects of recent times'
The Insight

more information can be found on this page Afro-Indian Project