Sarathy Korwar

Sarathy Korwar is a percussionist and composer who combines East Indian classical music, jazz, hip-hop, and electronics. After studying with Pandit Sanju Sahai, he traveled to rural Gujarat and field recorded the Sidi Troupe of Ratanpur; he later added a studio session from Pune, adding jazz and electronic musicians and it became 2016's Day to Day. His Upaj Collective -- a tentet split evenly between Indian classical and Western jazz musicians -- issued My East Is Your West. 2019's More Arriving was a collaborative soundclash wedding hip-hop, EDM, jazz, and Indian classical. Korwar and Upaj Collective released Night Dreamer: Direct-To-Disc Sessions and Kalak in 2022. He also co-founded the Flock collective with Tamar Osborn, Al MacSween, Danalogue the Conqueror, and Bex Burch; their eponymous debut appeared in May. 2023's KAL was an improvised companion to Kalak . 2024's Flock II was followed in 2025 by There Is Beauty, There Already.