Kartick & Gotam

Most people stuck in an airport terminal would do little but crib. But when music producer Kartick (Patrick Sebag) and sound designer Gotam (Yotam Agam) found themselves unable to exit the business class lounge at Singapore airport enroute to Indonesia, they decided to make music on their laptops. They dug into the collection of indigenous music that they had been busy recording throughout Asia, married them with loops and grooves and lo behold, Business Class Refugees was born. What could very easily have been chaotic mishmash instead blooms into a glorious smorgasbord of sounds ranging from folk to funk to electronica. Business Class Refugees is an outstanding album of electronic world music (if there’s such a thing) with tracks like ”˜Heer’ with its haunting vocals, ”˜Supreme Chaos’ with its funky bassline, and ”˜Rututu’ with its blaring horns. Kartick & Gotam ”“ who incidentally have worked on the previous gem from EarthSync, Nagore Sessions, too ”“ very effectively meld cultures and flavours in this must-have.