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UNK: The Radha Thomas Ensemble A contemporary, cutting-edge jazz / world music band from Bangalore consisting of experienced musicians from India, the USA, England and France who have performed all over the world. It is India’s first such format, led by a vocalist and UNK is now one of India’s most sought-after live music bands in the genre. UNK is based out of Bangalore. Their first album ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’ was released in September 2012 and is being played in radio stations all over the world including over 100 stations in the USA, to great acclaim from both critics and the public alike. The band has performed at all of India’s leading music festivals such as The ICCR Delhi International Jazz Festival, The Isai Music Festival in Chennai, the Bengaluru Habba, The Bangalore International Arts Festival, the Indigo and Blues Festival, the Jazz Yatra and many others. They have also performed repeatedly in India’s finest clubs such as Shisha, BFlat, Take Five, Zorba, The Sol, Out of The Box, Blue Frog, Paparazzi, Opus and others. The experience of the various band members is evident in the sleek arrangements and intelligent solos once can hear. 2013 – 2014 promises to be very busy for the band with a second album in the works and much more touring lined up. & presents RADHA THOMAS born in India, is jazz and blues singer who is a trained a Dhrupad (Indian classical vocal) vocalist who studied with Ustad Farid Ud Din Dagar, also the late Sheila Dhar. Her unique cross-over style is unusual and stands out. She is considered to be one of the foremost jazz vocalists in India. Having lived in New York for twenty years, she performed extensively there with musicians such as Ryo Kawasaki, Frank Tusa, John Scofield, Michael Brecker, Alex Blake, Badal Roy, Buddy Williams, Joe Farrell and others. She has performed all over the THE RADHA THOMAS ENSEMBLE world. NCBS, Bangalore 12th Sept, 2013. 8.00 PM www.radhathomas.com AMAN MAHAJAN is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music (Boston), based out of Bangalore, India, where he leads his own jazz/world piano trio, Refuge. He regularly plays, composes and arranges with UNK: The Radha Thomas Ensemble, Mystik Vibes, Krishna's TempleRock, Suraj Mani and The Tattva Trippers, and Arati Rao's Kaya Band. Previous THE RADHA THOMAS ENSEMBLE collaborations include Lucky Ali, Arooj Aftab, Gamelan Galak Tika, Project O.N.S, Joya, RED Mawkin, Schizophonic, Clinton Cerejo (MTV Coke Studio) and some of the foremost jazz musicians on the Indian scene. MATT LITTLEWOOD is originally from the UK, and has been living in India for the last 15 years. Having studied Western classical music at the University of Exeter in England, JEORAJ GEORGE was trained at Drumtech, a college he has since then been active on the Indian jazz scene, and for drummers in the U.K. He graduated bagging the top played with numerous groups and ensembles, performing at all student award from his batch. After returning to India he has the major festivals and venues in the country. Some of the been teaching and performing with various bands in India. He artists he performs with regularly include UNK: The Radha has conducted Workshops on Drum techniques and concepts Thomas Ensemble, The Agenda with Sunitha Sarathy, Amit for various companies and music schools in different parts of NCBS Heri, Mili Nair, Sangoma Everett, Krishna's TempleRock, and India. He has performed in some of the major music Festivals of The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), located in Mishko M'ba's tribute to Jaco Pastorius. Littlewood is also a India like Jazz Utsav, Conga Square Jazz Fest, Heritage Jazz, Bangalore, is part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental composer and leads his own group performing original works. Bangalore Hubba, Ishaniya Music festival, India Music Fest and Research. The mandate of NCBS is fundamental research in the Hindu Music Fest. He has shared the stage with some of the eminent musicians of India like Amit Heri, Madhav Chari, Leslie the frontier areas of biology. Our research interests range from is among the cream of French bassists, MISHKO M'BA Lewis, George Brooks, Maarten Visser, Keith Peters, Karl Peters the study of single molecules to ecology and evolution. In having worked with renowned Artists such as Raul de Suza, and Holger Jetter. He has also toured with Academy award addition we engage in a number of collaborative initiatives, Lucky Ali, Kaled and Didier Lockwood. He has an exciting, winner A.R. Rahman’s Live Band in India and abroad. such as inStem and the iBio; and we help to develop cutting intensely dynamic style, contributing melodic and rhythmic edge instrumentation and software via C-CAMP. structures which are the very heartbeat of Emergence. He was also part of the French band from Reunion Island: Ziskakan. He RAMJEE CHANDRAN is a self-taught jazz musician. The IVth Bangalore Microscopy Course is organized at the studied western classical music at Toulouse and focused later His style tends towards bebop, influenced principally by horn National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, on jazz and rock. As in demand bass player who really makes players. After an early stab at scat-singing-- performing a India. Taught by world leaders in biological microscopy, this his instrument sing, he is touring in USA, Europe and Asia with decade ago with singer Radha Thomas and jazz guitarist course provides didactic and hands on training in state-of-the various bands of different musical styles for many years. Mishko Gerard Machado --he recently turned to playing the guitar. He –art optical microscopy technique. was permanent member of the Paris ensemble Elexir with Raoul has played jazz guitar for UNK since its inception a year ago. He de Souza. He lives in Pondicherry for 10 years. is a writer and editor. He owns Explocity.com. DSS DSS driven by the mantra “Inspired By Technology”, DSS Imagetech has made a constant endeavour to provide cutting edge technology solutions to researchers and clinicians in various fields of Life Sciences. Apart from Microscopy, we are today equally well known for the expertise in Imaging, Genomics, Proteomics and Molecular Diagnostics and the product basket includes instruments, consumables and training services. In addition to the business of biotechnology DSS actively supports the cause of Jazz in India..