Treno en Corsa

Copyright W.Alleyne/K. Kearney 2006

After arriving in Chennai, South India, we looked high and low for a good Tabla player.  We put an ad in the local paper stating that we sought Percussionists for a recording.  All we actually wanted was for someone to sit there and just play for a couple of hours.  Then we found Mr N. Sundar, a professional Tabla player, and boy he was good!  He invited us to a concert he was giving so we could see him play ‘Live’.  We didn’t need much convincing after seeing the concert.  We made arrangements for him to come to our house in Mamallapuram.  He arrived in 3 rickshaws, One for him, one for his Instruments…..and one for his wife and kids!!

The voices in the background of this track are from 15 year old Jamila Gioppo from Milan, Italy.  She writes poetry and we thought it would be interesting to record her reciting her own poems and see what we could do with it.  ‘Treno en Corsa’ is the result of those recordings in India and Italy.  Everything was recorded with a Shure sm58 and a Laptop.

Kevin