Sarathy Korwar: There Is Beauty, There Already [N London listening walk]

In advance of the release of his new album There Is Beauty, There Already, Sarathy will be hosting two "listening walks", where a small number of attendees will get to listen to the album in full while taking a communal walk through two parts of London that have influenced the record and Sarathy's art more generally.

The first will take place in Hamstead Heath on Tuesday 28th October, meeting at 6.30pm outside Hampstead Heath Overground station and walking around the Hampstead Heath Loop. This is the ticket page for this walk.

The second will take place in Stockwell and Brixton on Saturday 1st November, meeting at 2pm outside Stockwell Underground Station, and walking through Brixton onto Brockwell Park. Tickets for that walk can be .

Both walks will last approximately an hour, culminating in an (optional) trip to a local pub so that attendees can chat about their experience and discuss the album with Sarathy.

Purchasing a ticket will also come with a free digital download of the album. Attendees are expected to bring their own smartphone and headphones in order to listen to the album on the walk.

About the album:

Sarathy Korwar, the genre-breaking drummer, producer and composer, will release seventh album, There Is Beauty, There Already, on his new record label Otherland on 7th November 2025.

Celebrating the melodic power of the drum ensemble, the album follows his 2022 Indofuturist manifesto KALAK with a deeply immersive longform suite of percussion-led compositions. Playing as a 40-minute suite of hypnotic and transcendent drum improvisations, the album beats through a repetitive, circular structure that brings to mind Indian folk music, jazz drum ensembles like Max Roach’s M’Boom and the contemporary classical minimalism of Terry Riley and Steve Reich.

From the undulating bass tones of the tabla to the tonal varieties of South Indian clay pot ghatam, the snare drum snap of the drum kit, and shades of electronic texture through the Buchla Easel, Korwar’s ensemble bubbles and flows through a stream of steady rhythm, forever in motion like the ceaseless energy of a river.

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