In Common ensemble brings together a unique fusion of styles and
influences, stripped to their core elements and combined to make
something individual and personal. In Common’s debut album ‘Love &
Stillness’ brings together jazz, Indian classical music, Scottish
traditional music and electronica, capturing the essence of each style
through showcasing the skills of a highly accomplished group of
musicians, each of whom understands their respective disciplines to
the highest degree. Tom Bancroft's In CommonStrip away the surface
features and jazz, electronica, Scottish traditional music and Indian
classical music all share: drone, groove & rhythm, collective
and individual improvisation, melodies and scales/raags, vocal
rhythmic patterns. This brand new project led by Tom Bancroft: •
starts with the bodhran and the tabla and a drone, • adds Indian
Classical Violin and improvising jazz guitar, • and continues adding
layers and voices from different traditions, in a creative new project
that focuses on the common ground between Scottish music, jazz, Indian
music and electronica. Sharat Chandra Srivastava (violin), Gyan
Singh (tabla), Tom Bancroft (bodhran & drums), Graeme Stephen (guitar
& loops), Sophie Bancroft (voice), Gina Rae (voice).
