Ramesh Shotham
Ramesh Shotham ( born May 7, 1948 in Madras) is an Indian percussionist and drummer of the World and fusion jazz.
Life and work
Shotham began after a zoology degree his career as a drummer for the rock band Indian Human Bondage. Mid-1970s, he studied in the Madras tavil, a spread in South India and Sri Lanka temple music drum and later at the Karnataka College of Percussion under the direction of the master TAS Mani classical percussion instruments Ghatam, Mridangam, Kanjira and Morsing. End of the 70s learned Shotham the German ethnic pioneers embryo know and worked with Louis Banks. In 1980, he came up with the Indo- jazz fusion band Jazz Yatra Septet for a three -month tour to Europe that there recorded the album Sangam.
In 1984 he was artist in residence at Iwalewa House, University of Bayreuth, 1986 Guest teacher at the conservatory of Rotterdam. Between 1990 and 1993 he took part in three organized by the Goethe -Institut tours as percussionist. He has participated in numerous festivals such as the Berlin Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Umbria Jazz Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Festival of Perth and the Buk Festival Korea part and worked with musicians like Chris Hinze, Steve Coleman, Rabih Abou -Khalil, Károly binder, Jonas Hellborg, Steve Swallow, Charlie Mariano, and from 2009 with the Cologne pianist Jarry Singla. Since 1995 he is a member of Sigi Schwab's Percussion Project and the duo Mandala with Sigi Schwab. He worked with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and founded formations such as Bhavani ( with Mariano, Ara Dinkjian and Arto Tuncboyaciyan ) and Madras Special ( with Zoltán Lantos, violin, Christian Wroth, bass, Mike Herting, piano and Sandhya Sanjana, vocals), with whom he own compositions played.
In 1997, he appeared in Carla Bley's performance of Escalator over the Hill on the Musik Triennale Köln, 1998 Steve Coleman in India, and later at a world music festival with the oud player Mohammed Zinelabidin in Tunisia. He participated in the film Heartbeat of the Continents by Manfred Waffender, are presented in the various drum styles.
Between 2001 and 2004 he undertook with his group Madras Special tours of Holland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and the UK. He is also touring with the quartet of the Karnataka College of Percussion. In addition, he is currently working with the WDR Big Band Cologne and Wolfgang Niedecken of BAP.