Indian electronic artist I-ZEN has released a new single called ‘LINEAR’, built around recordings from the late mandolin player U. Srinivas. The track pairs India’s classical instrumental tradition with a decidedly club-oriented electronic production, and it marks the first taste of a larger body of work I-ZEN has been developing for years.
Srinivas, widely regarded as one of India’s most accomplished instrumentalists, was known for adapting the mandolin, an instrument with no real precedent in Indian classical music, into a vehicle for Carnatic performance. He passed away in 2014 at age 45, but the seeds of…
