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Grammy-Award winning producer Noah Georgeson on working with Ali Sethi

By TNS Reporter
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January 28, 2018

Highlights

  • Beyond my excitement in working with Ali (Sethi), and his transcendent talent and voice, I’m looking forward to applying my approach to an unfamiliar tradition of music....

Beyond my excitement in working with Ali (Sethi), and his transcendent talent and voice, I’m looking forward to applying my approach to an unfamiliar tradition of music. Most often in recordings, non-western music is treated too reverently – like it is a painting in a museum, or an anthropological exhibit, which only serves to exoticize it, and separate the listener from the music and the musicians who make it. I want to work with Ali’s music as a living, vital, and passionate thing, and help make it feel familiar.

Beyond my excitement in working with Ali (Sethi), and his transcendent talent and voice, I’m looking forward to applying my approach to an unfamiliar tradition of music. Most often in recordings, non-western music is treated too reverently – like it is a painting in a museum, or an anthropological exhibit, which only serves to exoticize it, and separate the listener from the music and the musicians who make it. I want to work with Ali’s music as a living, vital, and passionate thing, and help make it feel familiar.

- Grammy-Award winning producer Noah Georgeson on working with Ali Sethi