Cover of Ashirvad by Alex Pertout showing the side of a train as it travels through a hazy landscape with brown tones

Alex Pertout

‘a percussionist’s pilgrimage through jazz, Carnatic and ambient worlds’

Personnel 

Alex Pertout udu, congas, berimbaus, table gongs, shakers, triangle, cabasa, cymbals, surdo, percussion, loops, marimba, quenacho, konnakol, synthesizers
Sandy Evans
saxophone
Charulatha Mani
vocals
Luke Howard
fender rhodes, acoustic piano
Stephen Housden
acoustic and electric guitars
Ben Robertson
acoustic bass

‘Ashirvad’ (Blessings) is a 9:55min spiritual jazz odyssey fusing hypnotic percussion (udu/berimbau/congas/konnakol), Carnatic vocal alchemy (Charulatha Mani) and saxophone transcendence (Sandy Evans).

Inspired by decades long association with guru Karaikudi R. Mani, the piece realises Fourth World’s prophecy, where global percussion, spiritual jazz and Carnatic vocals, dissolve into one sacred language.

Listen  on Bandcamp