Palace on Wheels is a musicians collective based in Sweden playing North Indian classical music, early Bollywood tunes, indian folk styles and other types of raga based music in a jugalbandi-format with traditional indian instruments like sitar, santoor, rabab, surbahar and tabla.
The music is based on improvisation within the frames of the Indian Classical Music and moves from deeply devoted aalap to playful tunes and breathtaking duells. The members of the group have all studied Indian Classical Music with masters for decades and have toured extensively in Sweden, Europe and Asia. Palace on Wheels often collaborates with other musicians and guest artists within both raga based music and other music genres as well as other art forms such as dance, visual arts and theatre. Being deeply rooted in the tradition of Indian classical music, the group is constantly thriving to investigate the possibilities of experimentation, development and invention of the music and tradition.
Members:
Stian Grimstad – sitar
Moa Danielson – santoor
Kg Westman – sitar, rabab, surbahar
Hugo Widén – tabla, percussion
Suvrat Apte – tabla
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