Rhythm Infinitum: Shabazz Palaces & Sarathy Korwar in Concert

Nothing is ever what it seems, but forever is the theme

Shabazz Palaces

Two visionary artists come together to explore, explode, and break assumptions of the linearity of time. This is an invitation into kaleidoscopic sound worlds, charting pathways from past-present-future. Experience the Afrofuturist hip-hop sonic landscapes of SHABAZZ PALACES (Seattle) and the Indofuturist world-building of percussionist and polymath SARATHY KORWAR (UK).

SHABAZZ PALACES are back with The Don of Diamond Dreams, a dazzling Afrofuturist echo through the infinite. It’s been a decade since Shabazz Palaces’ debut stylistic revolution, Black Up – which Pitchfork named as one of the Best of the 2010s, hailing it as an “album of impossible vision.” SHABAZZ PALACES have claimed a singular space in hip-hop’s interstellar landscape through their use of divine mathematics, cosmic rhythms and wordplay.

SARATHY KORWAR’s latest project, KALAK, the follow-up to the politically charged, award-winning More Arriving, is resonant with Indo-futurism. It offers a palindromic, poetic investigation of new possibilities in rhythm and sound. In Hindi, Kal means both ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow.’ SARATHY extends this notion into a term of his own invention: KALAK — a rhythmic, cosmological, and spiritual manifesto.

This event is co-produced by Indian Summer Festival and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

UBC is a Major Partner of the Indian Summer Festival, providing crucial support to the festival’s operational well-being