About Shiva Nova - musicians from Europe, Asia and Africa

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ABOUT SHIVANOVA

"Anyone looking for a subtle eastern groove with sophisticated technique will find it here" BBC Music Magazine

"distinctly mellow live" Evening Standard

"intelligent, musically articulate and thoroughly intriguing." Snoop

"fresh, relaxed and sparky" What's On

ShivaNova is a British–based performing and recording world music company, founded in 1988, that has an established reputation for excellence and quality, reflected in our outstanding line-up of internationally renowned musicians including composer, pianist and Artistic Director, Priti Paintal; Sanchita Pal and Yogeswaram (vocals); Rowland Sutherland; Alex Housego (flutes); Jean Toussaint (saxophone); Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, and Shabhaz Khan (tablas); RN Prakash (south Indian percussion); Jyotsna srikanth (indian violin), Sonya Slany and Chandrashekhar (violin).

The company has toured nationally and internationally, including sell out performances at London's Jazz Cafe. ShivaNova's first CD - POLYGAMY, featuring Orphy Robinson, was featured as a BBC Music Magazine Pick of the Year and in Classic CDs choice of the best in contemporary music. The company's last album, URBAN MANTRAS received extensive enthusiastic reviews in national press and a further album and tour followed.

In 2000, ShivaNova also established SugarNova a mainstream dance music arm of the group. Its debut single, Over and Over, reached the top 20 of the Music Week Club Charts. ShivaNova aims to bring together musicians and artists from a variety of cultural traditions – classical and pop, urban and folk, jazz and ambient.

In 2001 ShivaNova launched 2 new CDs - FLYING TO THE SUN and MOONLIGHTING which were followed by a national tour. The company has continued to develop it's work with collaborators including a UK-French collaboration supported by the European Commission with French contemporary dance artists, Compagnie Myriam Dooge. This project THE GLOBAL FEAST saw a music-dance-visual installation spectacular taking place in unusual spaces in Kent and Calais from 2000 - 2002.

ShivaNova's main objective is to create new work (musical and cross-artform) from diverse classical traditions, to widen the audience for its own work and for these traditions, and to inspire new ways of perceiving and listening.

Its artistic policy is to bring together high quality musicians and artists from differing traditions, mainly from classical Asian, African and western backgrounds, for performances and education and workshop programmes in schools and the wider community. As a creative producer it promotes its own performances, presents guest performances and makes recordings.

Instruments used by ShivaNova include sitar, sarod, Indian and Middle Eastern harps, voice, tabla, Indian and Western violins, cello, piano/keyboards, saxophone, flutes, percussion, African kora and drums and Chinese instruments.

ShivaNova is a dimension of new musical excitement, bringing together virtuoso improvising musicians from Europe, Asia and Africa. The creation of Priti Paintal, ShivaNova's music integrates elements of jazz, classical, Asian, ambient and club dance styles to create a sound-world that is immediately accessible yet completely unique. Instruments used by ShivaNova include sitar, sarod, Indian and Middle Easter harps, voice, tabla, Indian and Western violins, cello, piano/keyboards, saxophone, flutes, percussion, African kora and drums and Chinese instruments.