I’ve downloaded 2 hard to rare albums of the 57 year old Indian saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath from Meshes of the Afternoon. Born in the Karnataka region in southern India, it took Gopalnath 20 years to master the Saxophone. I’ve personally never heard saxophone in Indian music, no wonder he’s the first musician to incorporate the saxophone in Indian music literature. He made certain modifications to the alto saxophone to play Carnatic music. Gopalnath has the distinction of being the first carnatic musician to be invited in the BBC Promenade concert in 1994, in the Royal Albert Hall at London and also participated in lots of festivals like the Jazz Festival in Prague, Berlin Jazz Festival, International Cervantino Festival in Mexico, Music Hall Festival in Paris. His music is very spiritual and meditative yet it certainly creates an awkward and out-of-this-world mystique because of the way the instrument sounds.

Kadri Gopalnath – Om Sharmbo Shiva Shambo
Kadri Gopalnath – Shakthi Sahitha Ganapathi