Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones (US) | CONCERT | FONOMO

October 16, 2026, Friday, 7 p.m., MCC concert hall, tickets from 119 PLN

Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones (US) | CONCERT | FONOMO

Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones is a project that combines free jazz, improvisation, avant-garde composition and electronics with an uncompromising, socially engaged message. The group is led by singer, composer and instrumentalist Amirtha Kidambi, who uses the voice as a full-fledged instrument.

The band's music is based on a dialogue between the voice of Kidambi, saxophones, rhythm section and the characteristic sound of Indian fisharmony. Spiritual intensity meets the energy of free jazz — the artist describes this language as “spiritual punk”. In the texts of the Elder Ones, themes of power, social inequality, colonialism and mechanisms of exclusion return.

An important point in the band's achievements is the 2024 album “New Monuments”, inspired by the mass protests in the United States after the death of George Floyd and referring to memory, solidarity and social responsibility. Kidambi was raised in the tradition of Hindu bhajan songs and Bharatanatyam dance, studied classical singing, and received a master's degree in ethnomusicology from Columbia University. Her work combines these experiences with jazz, experimental rock and free improvisation.

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