https://saraswatitradingcompany.bandcamp.com/

I am beyond ecstatic to announce my new project, Saraswati Trading Company! It’s been a long time coming, starting with a germ of an idea in December 2018 in Chennai, leading to a hunt for the perfect musicians for the project, and finally recording right before the lockdown forced us to our respective homes!

Official bio: The concept for Saraswati Trading Company was born when Indofunk Satish visited his hometown of Chennai, India, in December 2018 for its annual South Indian classical music festival. A fan of South Indian classical (Carnatic/Karnatik) music, Satish wondered how it would sound with a modern industrial electro-technical substratum. Fast forward to early 2020 when he assembled the various components (Chris Cortier – analog modual synthesizer; Arun Ramamurthy – Karnatik violin; Bala Skandan – mridhangam), and Saraswati Trading Company is born. Acting as a central trading post for Bob Moog-era 1960s modular synthesizers and 16th century South Indian classical music, STC slides effortlessly between the two extremes and relaxes comfortably in the middle. Karnatik, electronic music, jazz, and avant garde afficionados alike will find common ground in STC’s syncretic sounds.