Dr Paul Nataraj is a musician and cultural thinker. Paul's music explores loss, grief, family and love. His latest work, 'Cobblestones and Kitchari' is presented as a continuous narrative exploring places and events from Paul's life, through childhood, his Dad's illness and his unexpected death. 

“Each of the works included are produced from sounds connected to my Dad, his immediate UK and extended Indian family. The individual sections are expressions of sonic memory, audio testimony and the shifts in the perceptions of those memories over time.”

Paul's Dad arrived in the UK in 1972, from Bombay, and married a woman from Preston, Lancashire, Paul's Mum. They built a life together in the mill town of Blackburn in the North of England. As well as being a portrait of his family, this work also explores transnationalism, and minority identity formation and is in many ways an ethnographic study through the prism of sound. 

Links to Paul's work can be found here:

https://paulnataraj.bandcamp.com/

https://fractalmeat.bandcamp.com/album/cobblestones-kitchari

https://soundcloud.com/paul-g-nataraj

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