Liam Karabo Joyce liam.joyce@inl.co.za IT WAS while South African musician Guy Buttery was on a concert tour of India, as part of a trio with the highly acclaimed Indian classical musicians, Mohd Amjad Khan and Mudassir Khan, that the seed was sown for One Morning In Gurgaon.
Remarkably, all three musicians had never met before, let alone made any music together, and before their first concert, they had “practised” via voice recordings and exchanged texts somewhere between Hindi and English to break down the various parts of the set.
Ultimately, it was the unrehearsed approach combined with the inauspicious and 11th-hour nature of their first meeting that provided stardust for the collaboration.
“Towards the end of 2019, I was fortunate to work with tabla player, Mohd. Amjad Khan, and sarangi…