Manickam Yogeswaran
Singer, Composer and Multi-Instrumentalist
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“A singer in the Indian classical tradition, a great improviser and someone who brings a completely different approach to intonation." - SINGER MAGAZINE |
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"Laced with haunting Tamil vocals by British-based musician Manickam Yogeswaran ... shaping its emotional crescendo." - FILM SCORE DAILY ("25th hour" filmscore by Terence Blanchard) "Yoga’s vocal technique comfortably manages a range of pitch, intensity, volume and speed ... designed to carry words of peace, love and devotion. - (CD review “Peace for Paradise”) Matthew Shorter - FLY GLOBAL MUSIC CULTURE |
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Press release |
“FLIGHTS OF SOUNDS” Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall (London) Sunday October 19, 2008, 6.00 pm A uniquely dynamic musical journey blending Western improvisation & composition with the vibrant soaring rhythms of Asian soundscapes | More (pdf) >> |
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Aside from singing Hindu devotional and classical music, Yogaswaran has also spread the Carnatic word through his collaborations with such highly toasted, multi-cultural messengers as DISSIDENTEN and SHIVANOVA.
With Dissidenten, he appeared at major music festivals of the calibre of the Montreaux Jazz, Jazzopen Stuttgart and, twice, at Glastonbury, Europe's largest music festival. His singing can be heard on Dissidenten's Instinctive Traveller (1997), Live in Europe (1998) and A New World Odyssey (2004). He is also the featured voice with the predominantly Western classical 'Big Voice Band', The Shout under the direction of Orlando Gough and Richard Chew, with whom he appeared at the Vienna Festival and the Arts and Ideas Festival in the USA as well as on The Shout's Tall Stories (2000) and Deep Blue (2004).
As a composer he has also created and sung with a number of select dance companies including the acclaimed Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company. He has accompanied traditional South Indian dance debuts (Bharatha Natya Arangetram) across Europe. It is not hyperbole to say that no Tamil vocalist is doing more spread the word of Tamil music across the world. - Ken Hunt, March 2005.
