Karsh Kale
// composer, percussionist & remix producerKARSH KALE (pronounced “Kursh Kah-lay”) is a composer, percussionist, and producer living in New York City. “Distance Remixes [EP]” (2000), “Realize” (2001), “Redesign: Realize Remixed” (2002), “Liberation” (2003), “Manifest Remixes [EP]” (2006), and “Broken English” (2006), and “Beautiful Remixes [EP]” (2007) are all available from Six Degrees Records, Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale’s “Breathing Under Water” (2007) is available from Blue Note Label Group. Karsh Kale is known as one of the founding forces driving the “Asian Massive” club music scene as a sub-genre of Electronica. He has remixed music by Anoushka Shankar, Cheb i Sabbah, MIDIval Punditz, Paula Cole, Prem Joshua, Rohan, and Sting. Karsh Kale is also a prolific collaborator who has worked with Bill Laswell, DJ Spooky, and Herbie Hancock, among many others.
Website: www.karshkale.com
Photo: Karsh Kale / KarshKale.com
Interview:
Music is the sound of the spirit that dwells in all of us. It is the unseen yet tangible connection that we all share and no matter what language or culture may make us different, the vibrations of music show us our similarities. The ideal of spirituality is to reach a collective consciousness, and music is a universal pathway to this place. There are no preconceived ideas of language needed to understand how profound music can touch the world and how much music can move it.
“Music is the sound of the spirit that dwells in all of us.”
– Karsh Kale, composer, percussionist, and remix producer
