Best of Both Worlds

Musician Talvin Singh, who straddles electronic and Indian classical, is busy with collaborations, creating sound art, learning new instruments, and, yes, a new solo album after nearly two decades

- Priya Pathiyan

Take the typical sounds from a simple South Indian café in Matunga, Mumbai. Stir in some musical genius. And you have sound art that’s being showcased at a first-of-its-kind sound art gallery Le Son 7 in New York’s Soho, and which global buyers are bidding for. Trust musician-producer Talvin Singh, known as the father of modern Asian electronic music, to be at the cutting edge of creativity! Singh tells us about this piece titled