''More Arriving'' is the second studio album by US-born, Indian-raised, London-based drummer, percussionist, composer and bandleader Sarathy Korwar.

Background

''More Arriving'' was released on 26 July 2019 through

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. The album was recorded over three years in

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and

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and incorporates rappers from Mumbai and

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with spoken word and Korwar's own Indian classical influence and jazz instrumentation. The album features the Jamaican-Indian rapper Delhi Sultanate, the London poet Zia Ahmed and the Abu Dhabi writer Deepak Unnikrishnan among others. “This is what Indian music sounds like to me right now", says Korwar in

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. "That means incorporating multiple brown voices. If anyone has a problem with that, they should be questioning what they think Indian music should be.”

Critical reception

On the

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website, which aggregates various media and press reviews and assigns a normalised rating out of 100, ''More Arriving'' received a score of 87.

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called the album "confrontational" and "musically far-reaching" and praised its "bursts of reggae wooziness, gnarled free-jazz atonality, and electronic noise". Supreme Standard called the album "biting and acerbic, funny and furious, and eaturingsome of its creator’s finest, most accessible compositions to date" and made it Album Of The Week upon its release. The Guardian praised the "Carnatic rhythms and lyrical dexterity" of the track "Mumbay", where "MC Mawali puns in Hindi on the colonial resonance of “Bombay” compared to the rightwing nationalism of “Mumbai”". ''More Arriving'' won Best Independent Album at The

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Awards in 2020.

Track listing

Personnel

* Sarathy Korwar - drums, percussion, composition *Zia Ahmed - Vocals *Mirande - vocals *MC Mawali - vocals *Delhi Sultanate - vocals *

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- vocals *Aditya Prakash - vocals *TRAP POJU - vocals *Deepak Unnikrishnan - vocals *Tamar Osborne - baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute *Al McSween - keys *Dan Leavers - synthesiser *Chris Williams - alto saxophone *Ruth Goller - bass guitar * Giuliano Modarelli - guitar *Aditya Prakash - percussion *Magnus Mehta - percussion *Gandhaar Amin - flute *Karim Sultan - oud

References

{{Authority control 2019 albums The Leaf Label albums Sarathy Korwar albums