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On his debut solo EP, US-Born, Berlin-based composer, drummer and multi-instrumentalist Martin Rott attempts to escape the grid of the producers computer screen and embrace the circles of life’s organic complexities with lovingly crafted beats, delicate piano and vintage orchestral arrangements dancing together on the edge of what may just about be classified as electronica.

The critically acclaimed record's masterfully subtle intricacies barely hint at the prodigal, genre-hopping, decade-plus long career as a producer and live musician Rott left behind, even while finishing multiple degrees (one of them with a double major) simultaneously, all the while nurturing a marriage and a family at an age most of his contemporaries were scouting hacks to nurse hangovers. 

I catch up with my college-friend at his Berlin studio and catch up on the perils of the producers life-style, the challenges of a working-musician and the subjective nature of the time-line needed to figure out one's musical call.

This episode is brought to you by www.everynowheremusic.com  

Recorded on a Zoom L8 Mixer kindly sponsored by https://www.sound-service.eu

Connect with Martin:

• Website : https://www.martinrott.com

Connect with T.L. / EveryNowHere

• Website: www.findtl.com

Raw and unedited spontaneous late night blurb.

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Connect with T.L. / EveryNowHere

• Website: www.findtl.com

Hailed by Billboard as 'one of the most innovative, provocative singers in any genre' Sheila Chandra's journey is as heart-wrenching as it is heart-warming. As terrifying as it is inspiring. But most importantly as relevant in 2020 as it was in the early 1980's when when a 16 yr old Chandra hit the UK top 10 as the first British Asian artist, even while navigating the murky waters of an era designed to have her torn between representing a minority all too happy to project their hopes and baggage onto a first-time event, and an ancestral country who still tended to respond with their knee-jerk snobbishness towards a culture they could only categorize as semi-something at best.

An innovator who might easily be described as one of the founding artists of the genre 'World Music' before it actually went on to become a mainstream label, the abrupt end with which her prolific writing and musical career met and the transition shortly after into a career as celebrated author and coach for the likes of artists like Stik, while still carrying a strain of brilliance as a common factor, leaves the romantic with an imaginative plethora of speculations of how she might have sounded today, and the cynic with the silver lining of how her artistry remains timelessly untouched by the generic nature of a genre going by a name that comes ever-increasingly in focus for reasons a lot of us would find questionable.  

This episode is brought to you by www.everynowheremusic.com  

Recorded on a Zoom L8 Mixer kindly sponsored by https://www.sound-service.eu

Connect with Sheila :

• Website : www.sheilachandra.com

Connect with T.L. / EveryNowHere

• Website: www.findtl.com

Drummer, composer and bandleader Mareike Wiening has been said to bring “a planar modulating harmonic language and a propulsive drift” (New York Times) to the world of contemporary jazz.

Based between Cologne and NYC, her current album “Metropolis Paradise” (released November 2019 on Greenleaf Music) documents the last official recording-session at the legendary Systems Two Recording Studios, NYC amidst goodbyes that kept flooding in from decades of clients as Wiening made her recording debut as Band-leader and Composer with a pianist who had had only the night before to learn her music. 

An old friend who I have always admired deeply, we catch up on her fascinating and inspiring story that is an apt display of how she went from the star student mentored by the likes of Stefon Harris finishing two Masters Degrees in two different continents simultaneously to the billiant, positive and cutting-edge force in the world of European Jazz. 

This episode is brought to you by www.everynowheremusic.com  

Recorded on a Zoom L8 Mixer kindly sponsored by https://www.sound-service.eu

Connect with Marieke :

• Website : www.mareikewiening.com

Connect with T.L. / EveryNowHere

• Website: www.findtl.com

The humble, soft-spoken, vulnerable and sincere manner in which you will hear Markus Reuter speak on this podcast might leave you surprised when you figure out it comes from an artist who spent the past decade on the road with living legends like Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto (amidst many others) on multiple continents performing for audiences who flock to hear them play a form of music based on a process an entire generation possibly doesn't even know exists.

A qualified Psychologist, Reuter's work as recording artist, solo performer and collaborator spans (and frequently fuses) electrophonic loop music, contemporary classical music, progressive and art rock, industrial music, world jazz, jazz fusion, pop songs and pure improvisation. Over the course of a two-decade career, he has been a member of and collaborator with multiple bands, ensembles and projects (including centrozoon, Stick Men, Tuner, The Crimson ProjeKct, Europa String Choir, Gary Husband and Devin Townsend) as well as a solo artist. Markus is also an in-demand creativity coach and music instructor. 

This episode is brought to you by www.everynowheremusic.com  

Recorded on a Zoom L8 Mixer kindly sponsored by https://www.sound-service.eu

Connect with Markus :

• http://www.markusreuter.com

Connect with T.L. Mazumdar // EveryNowHere :

• Website: www.findtl.com

Hailed as 'one of the hottest drummers on the planet' by Nitin Sawhney, RBMA Graduate, heir to what has been called the 'the first family of Indian Independent Music', core member of pathbreaking band Pink-Noise and most well known as one half of indie art-pop duo Parekh & Singh, Visual/Inter-diciplinary artist/ Drummer/Producer Jivraj Singh is the personification of unassuming, prodigal, autodidactic talent and depth, the extent of which he still remains reluctant to acknowledge openly.

In his most intimate conversation on record till date, I catch up with my God-brother, collaborator, soulmate and peer-mentor to talk about how the last 5 years have been since the demise of his parents and my friends Gyan and Jayshree Singh, his most adult break up, his history-making success with Parekh and Singh, therapy and decision to leave Social Media. 

This episode is brought to you by www.everynowheremusic.com  

Recorded on a Zoom L8 Mixer kindly sponsored by https://www.sound-service.eu

Connect with Jivraj Singh : https://www.parekhandsingh.com

Connect with T.L. Mazumdar // EveryNowHere :

• Website: www.findtl.com

(Rec. 23rd July 2020) 

Tayo Rockson is a writer, speaker, consultant, podcaster, and brand strategist who runs UYD Management - a strategic consulting firm that helps organisations incorporate sustainable diversity and inclusion practices. As the son of a diplomat, Tayo grew up understanding the nuances of multicultural diversity while living on 4 continents. He has leveraged his experiences to establish himself as an authority in communicating effectively across cultures and personal branding by gracing various stages including TEDx, the prestigious Chautauqua Institution as well as the United Nations. Tayo regularly expands on his knowledge by interviewing top industry leaders via his top rated "As Told by Nomads" podcast as well as consulting with corporations ranging from fast growing startups to multinationals. Tayo's most recent accomplishments include landing a book deal with Wiley, a global publishing company. His first book on connecting across cultures in divisive times is called Use Your Difference To Make A Difference.

This episode is brought to you by www.everynowheremusic.com  

Recorded on a Zoom L8 Mixer kindly sponsored by https://www.sound-service.eu

Connect with Tayo :

• Website: www.tayorockson.com

Connect with T.L. Mazumdar // EveryNowHere :

• Website: www.findtl.com

(Rec. 12 July 2020)

Swedish Singer, Composer, Arranger  and Painter Sophie Duner has been making waves in international Jazz/Contemporary/Avantgarde circles with her uniquely blended sound uniting the romantic and the spiritually elevated with the bold dissonance of satire drenched in tense colours that resolve into unpredictable  scapes of expansion.

Drawing heavily on a variety of composers like Kurt Weill, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Hans Werner Henze, Dizzy Gillespie & Stravinsky to create what has been described as 'Dúneresque' by Grammy Award winning Producer Michael Haas.

Based between Sweden and the US, the Berklee graduate mentored by the likes of George Garzone, Hal Crook and Ed Tomassi continues to fascinate with provocative melanges of sonic and visual colour.

In this episode, we catch up for the first time since our Artist Residency at the UNESCO endorsed Bimbache openART festival in 2015.

This episode is brought to you by www.everynowheremusic.com  

Recorded on a Zoom L8 Mixer kindly sponsored by https://www.sound-service.eu

Connect with Sophie :

• Sophie Dunér Music on FB https://www.facebook.com/sophiedunermusic

• Sophie Dunér Art on FB https://www.facebook.com/groups/110574845623114

Connect with T.L. Mazumdar // EveryNowHere :

• Website: www.findtl.com

Late night blurbs on the role and definition of consistency that have been relevant for me as an artist and make themselves more apparent of late.

(Rec. 27th June 2020)

Founder of Artistik License, a legal and business consultancy for artists and creative professionals since 2013, Manojna Yeluri is arguably India's most credible entertainment and intellectual property rights lawyer whose collaborative work with the Indian independent arts and music is sworn by by some of the sub-continents most-respected artists.

Representative of the same at global events like WOMEX and IOMMA, she  consults additionally with the Artists at Risk Connection project of Pen America as their Asia Regional representative, assisting them with their activities in the region. She is also co-creator of community based tool, Contracts for Creators.

Yeluri holds a Masters Degree in Entertainment, media and intellectual property rights law from the UCLA School of Law, and a BA.LLB (Hons) degree from NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, India where she currently operates from. 

This episode is brought to you by www.everynowheremusic.com  

Recorded on a Zoom L8 Mixer kindly sponsored by https://www.sound-service.eu

Connect with Manojna :

• Website: https://www.artistiklicense.org

Connect with T.L. Mazumdar // EveryNowHere :

• Website: www.findtl.com

(Apologies for audio dropout in between due to T.L.'s moronry)