Saturday 11 September 4pm | Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape Maltings
From the Sanskrit word ‘Prana’, meaning ‘ultimate breath’, and ‘Anasa’, Greek for ‘Breath’, PRANASA aim to do nothing less than breathe music.
Together, Supriya Nagarajan (voice), Sarah Waycott (flute), and Yanna Zissiadou (piano) view their distinctive cultural diversity as a great strength and opportunity.
“We want to create a brand-new sound anchored in texts spoken in our own languages - British, Greek, Indian - and in music. We will explore and manipulate time, phrasing, keys and modes, our own instrumental and vocal techniques, and experiment with light, space, time and speed refraction. We want to find the common places between us yet also borrow from each other’s heritage, creating something that has never been heard before. Using a range of acoustic and electronic instruments, our sound will be recognisable, quirky, surprising, familiar but unknown, soulful, rich, funky, curious, and at all times and in all ways, completely PRANASA!”
We are part of the FESTIVAL OF NEW at Snape Maltings (link will appear here soon) and we couldn't be more proud of this new collaboration. Watch our short video and if you can, join us!