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Feb 10, 2020 · Rafiq Bhatia started the new year by taking a fresh look at jazz standards in a four-song EP called Standards Vol. 1. The record subverts our expectations — for both a guitarist best-known as a ...
Rafiq Bhatia is an experimental composer, guitarist, producer, and sound artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Bhatia's second LP, Breaking English, was released in April 2018 on ANTI- Records. He is also a member of the band Son Lux.
Apr 6, 2018 · An Rong Xu for The New York Times. The inspirations for Rafiq Bhatia’s new album, “Breaking English,” include but are not limited to: Jimi Hendrix concert videos, blaring prayer calls from ...
Feb 10, 2020 · February 10, 2020 • With his four-song EP, Rafiq Bhatia is putting a new spin on jazz standards and, in a way, posing the question, "What is a standard?" On 'Standards Vol. 1,' Rafiq Bhatia ...
May 5, 2024 · Consider Bhatia’s relationship with the EP’s pianist and primary accomplice, Chris Pattishall, which stretches back to their high school years in North Carolina. Their working lives diverged over time: while Bhatia’s path took him progressively further from the epicenter of jazz, Pattishall studied with titans of the tradition and went on to become one of Wynton Marsalis’ favorite ...
Breaking English, the Anti Records debut of New York composer and guitarist Rafiq Bhatia, seeks to shatter preconceptions about how much can be said without a word—and, for that matter, who can say it. Bhatia’s audacious first album as a producer sets out to challenge existing musical vocabulary with a language of its own.
Rafiq Bhatia. Rafiq Bhatia is a composer, producer, and guitarist who moves fluidly between jazz and rock groups, Indian and American musical influences, and acoustic and electronic sounds. Early influences such as Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, and Madlib—as well as mentors and collaborators including Vijay Iyer and Billy Hart—have prompted ...
