Jairamji
began life in 1998 after a long and eye opening trip to
India. With only some basic music training under my belt,
I (charlie) had no idea that I would go on to follow a life
in music and become obsessed with the nature of sound. India
is
a magical country that feeds the senses and fuels the imagination,
we spent many days camping out on the beaches listening
to the sounds of nature; the waves and the orchestra of
crickets every morning at sunrise. I was recording alot
of the sounds I heard, and when I returned home started
to mix them with musical ideas on some pretty basic equipment.
This was pretty detrimental to any academic career , and
it became necessary to find others to join in the fun of
avoiding anything too serious. Soon I had enough material
to do something live and joined by Becca, Harry, Nick and
Andy we began to do some live sets in some sordid trance
venues around the country. Mostly unrehearsed we had mixed
success, but had a massive amount of fun.
The band was
then called "Swivelpigeon" and lasted in this
form for a couple of years until it morphed into "Bosanova
Junction" with the addition of a lunatic called Orlando,
who plays most instruments extremely well, but has the unfortunate
tendency of heading for the bar in the middle of the set
. At this point we were playing fully live music without
any synths, getting into jazz and funk. We recorded a 35
minute Ep called "Soma life" staying in a tiny
cottage in Wales, a fusion of jazz, samba, trance and funk.
However, as
is often the case, holding down the motivation to play live
reguarly and get paid proved difficult and live shows became
less frequent. I headed back to india and studied tabla
and Indian theory of music with a cruel slavedriver who
didnt speak any English, but ressurected my passion for
deeper sounds, and decided to put my energy into reording
and using what a studio has to offer in music-making.
Living in Brighton
by the sea I set about finding as many musicians as I could
find who could contribute unusual and ethnic sounds to the
recordings. This led to many wonderful meetings, including
Andreas who introduced me to the ideas of native American
music, and its earthy contrast to the spiritual heights
of Indian Classical music. I was introduced to a number
of instruments during this year,including the m'bira , an
enchanting African thumb piano, and a guy from Goa showed
me how to play the Comb and loo-roll trick better than anyone
I have ever seen. It was here that most of the ideas for
the current cd were born (Kindred Spirits). many of the
musicians got in touch after I pasted flyers around the
country looking for "players of unusual instruments".
Getting deeper
in the studio and the claustaphobia that always follows
led to the need for more live work, and under the name Jairamji
we began doing some more gigs, mostly highly energetic sets
often incorporating random members of the audience into
the mix by thrusting the microphone into their hand. We
got into the habit of playing jewish wedding songs mixed
with hard trance , which proved a pretty lethal combination.
We gained another member with Susanna Waters(ted to her
friends)and her beautiful soaring vocals.
The last few
months(dec 2002)have been spent editing the current cd in
Somerset, where the Globesound studio is based, and has
seen few live performances except in Greece, where we played
to a crowd of people who hadnt slept for about 6 days at
the Samothraki Dance Festival. To see Pics Click
Here.