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Alif & Almut live in concert at the Bangalore Poetry Festival
Alif & Almut live in concert at the Bangalore Poetry Festival 2018
For the third edition of the Bangalore Poetry Festival (BPF), award-winning German performance poet Ulrike Almut Sandig and well-known Band ALIF, which sets contemporary Urdu and Kashmiri poetry in to music and has won many prestigious award, come together once again after their sold-out performance at Mumbai. The BPF is scheduled to take place from August 4 - 5, 2018 at the Hotel The Leela Palace, Old Airport Road, Bengaluru.
Details:
Poetry Reading:
4.8.2018
4.00 -4.30 p.m.
Yonder Shores
Alvin Pang, Gili Hamovich and Ulrike Almut Sandig
Alif & Almut Live in Concert:
4.8.2018
7.00 – 8.00 p.m.
Ulrike Almut Sandig with ALIF
About the artists:
Ulrike Almut Sandig: Performance Poet
Ulrike Almut Sandig was born in Großenhain (GDR) in 1979 and now lives with her family in Berlin. She started publishing her poetry by pasting poems onto lamp posts and spreading them on flyers and free post cards. After completing her Magister in Religious Studies and Modern Indology, she graduated from the German Creative Writing Program Leipzig.
She collaborates with filmmakers, composers, sound artists and musicians from all over the world and has won many prizes, including the Leonce and Lena Prize in 2009 and the Literary Prize of the Federation of German Industries in 2017. Besides her many radio plays and audio-books of poetry and music she has published two books of short stories—Flamingos and Book Against Disappearing—and four volumes of poetry.
In 2015 Ugly Duckling Presse (USA) launched a selection of her early poems in English translation. In 2016 Karen Leeder’s stunning translations of Sandig’s latest poetry „Thick of it“ won the English PEN translation Pitch and have been awarded with an PEN America/Heim Translation Fund Grant. In 2018 she launches her debut album with her Poetry-band LANDSCHAFT.
Alif : Urdu & Kashmiri poetry with contemporary music
Storytelling steeped in Urdu and Kashmiri culture and recounted by singer-songwriter and poet, Mohammad Muneem, the #wordsofalif can easily stand on their own. Formed in 2008 Lyrical and poignant, relevant and bold. Yet when masterfully blended with Alif’s distinctive genre-defying contemporary and ethnic sound, the experience is nothing short of deliverance.
Muneem’s powerful vocals both haunt and soothe. Band takes you on a seamless journey from Jhelumas’ chilling crescendo into rock to the rhythmic beat of IRRA award winning rap collaboration, Like a Sufi. From ballads such as the sentimental Main aur Tu to the more classical sound of Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival’s 2018 “Best Music Video” Lalnawath, Alif is an experience that at once, both stirs and stills the soul. And ultimately, sets you free. The first letter of the Arabic Urdu script, Alif, also signifies oneness, mystic and unseen-- interpretations the band brings forth in their poetry and sound.
Band members:
Mohammad Muneem on Acoustic guitar / lead vocal Hardik Vaghela on Keyboards Amit Gadgil on Bass, Karan Chitra Deshmukh on Percussion / Drums
Born and raised in Srinagar, Kashmir, singer-songwriter, Mohammad Muneem Nazir, is co-founder of the live act, Alif. An adept poet and storyteller, he teaches Urdu Poetry at Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce and is part of the theatre group Rangshila. As a film-maker and scriptwriter, he conceptualizes and directs Alif’s music videos and has recently been commissioned to write and supervise dialogues in film projects such as Dishyam’s current production of “Kash Mir Singh” and the upcoming “Torbaaz” starring Sanjay Dutt, for which he is also composing music and lyrics. Alif’s work will also be featured in Sajid Alis / Imtiaz Ali’s soon to be released “Laila Majnu”.
For more details:
https://www.wordsofalif.com/
http://www.bengalurupoetryfestival.org/
For the third edition of the Bangalore Poetry Festival (BPF), award-winning German performance poet Ulrike Almut Sandig and well-known Band ALIF, which sets contemporary Urdu and Kashmiri poetry in to music and has won many prestigious award, come together once again after their sold-out performance at Mumbai. The BPF is scheduled to take place from August 4 - 5, 2018 at the Hotel The Leela Palace, Old Airport Road, Bengaluru.
Details:
Poetry Reading:
4.8.2018
4.00 -4.30 p.m.
Yonder Shores
Alvin Pang, Gili Hamovich and Ulrike Almut Sandig
Alif & Almut Live in Concert:
4.8.2018
7.00 – 8.00 p.m.
Ulrike Almut Sandig with ALIF
About the artists:
Ulrike Almut Sandig: Performance Poet
Ulrike Almut Sandig was born in Großenhain (GDR) in 1979 and now lives with her family in Berlin. She started publishing her poetry by pasting poems onto lamp posts and spreading them on flyers and free post cards. After completing her Magister in Religious Studies and Modern Indology, she graduated from the German Creative Writing Program Leipzig.
She collaborates with filmmakers, composers, sound artists and musicians from all over the world and has won many prizes, including the Leonce and Lena Prize in 2009 and the Literary Prize of the Federation of German Industries in 2017. Besides her many radio plays and audio-books of poetry and music she has published two books of short stories—Flamingos and Book Against Disappearing—and four volumes of poetry.
In 2015 Ugly Duckling Presse (USA) launched a selection of her early poems in English translation. In 2016 Karen Leeder’s stunning translations of Sandig’s latest poetry „Thick of it“ won the English PEN translation Pitch and have been awarded with an PEN America/Heim Translation Fund Grant. In 2018 she launches her debut album with her Poetry-band LANDSCHAFT.
Alif : Urdu & Kashmiri poetry with contemporary music
Storytelling steeped in Urdu and Kashmiri culture and recounted by singer-songwriter and poet, Mohammad Muneem, the #wordsofalif can easily stand on their own. Formed in 2008 Lyrical and poignant, relevant and bold. Yet when masterfully blended with Alif’s distinctive genre-defying contemporary and ethnic sound, the experience is nothing short of deliverance.
Muneem’s powerful vocals both haunt and soothe. Band takes you on a seamless journey from Jhelumas’ chilling crescendo into rock to the rhythmic beat of IRRA award winning rap collaboration, Like a Sufi. From ballads such as the sentimental Main aur Tu to the more classical sound of Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival’s 2018 “Best Music Video” Lalnawath, Alif is an experience that at once, both stirs and stills the soul. And ultimately, sets you free. The first letter of the Arabic Urdu script, Alif, also signifies oneness, mystic and unseen-- interpretations the band brings forth in their poetry and sound.
Band members:
Mohammad Muneem on Acoustic guitar / lead vocal Hardik Vaghela on Keyboards Amit Gadgil on Bass, Karan Chitra Deshmukh on Percussion / Drums
Born and raised in Srinagar, Kashmir, singer-songwriter, Mohammad Muneem Nazir, is co-founder of the live act, Alif. An adept poet and storyteller, he teaches Urdu Poetry at Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce and is part of the theatre group Rangshila. As a film-maker and scriptwriter, he conceptualizes and directs Alif’s music videos and has recently been commissioned to write and supervise dialogues in film projects such as Dishyam’s current production of “Kash Mir Singh” and the upcoming “Torbaaz” starring Sanjay Dutt, for which he is also composing music and lyrics. Alif’s work will also be featured in Sajid Alis / Imtiaz Ali’s soon to be released “Laila Majnu”.
For more details:
https://www.wordsofalif.com/
http://www.bengalurupoetryfestival.org/