This July, World Village is delighted to present "RISHTE", the impressive collaboration between British/South Asian singer NAJMA AKHTAR and American guitarist GARY LUCAS. Akhtar fuses jazz with updated arrangements of the Indian ghazal, (love songs and spiritual songs), as well as traditional bhajans, Indian Semi Classical vocals and the occasional Bollywood hit; she has collaborated with Ian Anderson, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant and Andy Summers. Lucas is a GRAMMY® nominated songwriter with over a dozen solo albums, who has worked with Jeff Buckley, Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) and most recently Chris Cornell, to name a few. Longtime fans of each other’s work, they decided to collaborate on a project after meeting in London in May of 2007.
