BAHAIRAVI RAMAN & NANTHESH SIVARAJAH - Syncretic LP New Wave The guitar playing is immaculate

The guitar playing is immaculate and unique

the album’s mélange of live and sampled beats fizzle

and an act of mourning for all those who were suffering under the barbarity of apartheid

The eight songs on the record sprawl out into one another

a tendency that intensified in the early 70s

BAHAIRAVI RAMAN & NANTHESH SIVARAJAH - Syncretic LP New Wave The guitar playing is immaculateSyncretic marks the debut full length from Australian duo Bhairavi Raman, a Western and Carnatic violinist, and Nanthesh Sivarajah, a mridangam player and versatile percussionist. Both artists share a Tamil heritage, a current that hums across the album. Raman, from South India, and Sivarajah, from Sri Lanka, draw lines that connect Western practice and Carnatic tradition. This hybrid is central to Ramans approach as a violinist, an instrument itself