Sandhya Sanjana was born in Bombay, India and her musical journey began at the age of two. She was raised in New Delhi where she was part of a culturally active group. Participating in musical shows since the age of five, she absorbed various folk and classical influences from ancient and contemporary India.From an early age, she studied Indian classical vocals under several Gurus, absorbing the styles from various 'gharanas'. In her teenage years, she discovered rock and pop music. This new and youthful energy so fascinated her that she sang in some rock groups in Bombay. Then she heard Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Her world was turned around once again. In order to expand her musical scope, she sang in several jazz clubs all over India. Then she travelled the world with the group DIVYA.While performing at the Jazz Jamboree in Poland, Alice Coltrane heard Sandhya sing and was most impressed with her effortless blending of Indian classical styles with jazz and contemporary settings. She invited DIVYA to perform for the 5th John Coltrane festival. While in Los Angeles for the festival, Alice Coltrane invited Sandhya to record some tracks on Glorious Chants, her CD of spiritual music. A year later, Alice was invited to perform on a BBC television series "Rhythms of the world". She invited Sandhya to sing with her on the show.
http://www.sandhyasanjana.com/
Michel Banabila :
musician / producer, best known for his ' VoizNoiz '.
Besides acoustic instruments , Banabila uses found objects, electronics, field recordings, shortwave /tv/ film recordings, and vocoder-plugs.
Banabila has composed musical scores for numerous films, documentaries, video art, theatre plays and choreographies.
In 2000, Banabila produced Arhil , the critically acclaimed debut album from Moroccan singer Ali Bahia El Idrissi (Boudisque recordings).
On the same label Banabila released his dark-ambient works ; ' Spherics '.
In 2001 Banabila joined Holger Czukay 's internet collabs for the track '10 Steps to heaven' on the cd 'Linear city' (InsideOut Music).
In 2003 Banabila received the prestigious Dutch Edison Jazz Award for the cd ' VoizNoiz 3 ', with trumpet-player Eric Vloeimans (Challenge).
In 2008 Banabila released 'Precious Images', a 2cd album on Steamin' Soundworks.http://www.banabila.com/
'Gopalam' : featuring a beautiful solo by Dutch number 1 trumpet player Eric Vloeimans.
http://www.ericvloeimans.com/
The track 'Speech' is available via:
