Rajna Swaminathan’s MANGAL Featuring Carlos Snaider, Samantha Boshnack, Kelsey Mines and Live Art by L.Haz
Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 8pm
Doors at 7:00pm
Tickets: $15 adv/ $18 dos
To guarantee a good seat, please make your dinner reservation by emailing reservations@theroyalroomseattle.com
Advance tickets can only be purchased online. We do not sell advance tickets at the venue.
Led by percussionist-composer Rajna Swaminathan, Mangal brings together a group of thoughtful improvisers to spark new collective soundings and time-worlds. Rajna's compositions merge musical processes from South Indian music, jazz/creative music, and other forms, opening the door to lush and intricate improvisations. ‘Mangal' is a homonym with unique meanings in English and Sanskrit: the English 'mangal' refers to an assemblage of mangrove trees, whose roots are entangled in a chaotic web, making it difficult to individuate one tree from the interconnected collective; the Sanskrit 'mangal' is an epithet for that which is harmonious or auspiciously timed. The hybrid imagery of chaotic but serendipitous multiplicity in 'mangal' serves as a poetic impetus for improvisational flights and experimental textures.
Live art by The Artist L.Haz will be sold at the show.
Rajna Swaminathan - Mridangam and composition
Carlos Snaider - Guitar
Samantha Boshnack - Trumpet
Kelsey Mines - Bass
Live art - L.Haz (Zahyr Lauren)
Please note: Tickets do not guarantee seating during shows at the Royal Room. For sold out shows standing room may be the only available space. Please come early to ensure you get a table. Reservations can be made for those who are coming for dinner as well as the show. The Royal Room is All Ages until 10pm.
