it has been 20 years since tabla player and composer talvin singh 47 produced the album anokha soundz of the asian underground which was born out of his legendary club nights at the blue note in london later his album ok won the prestigious mercury music prize he collaborated with madonna was awarded the obe in 2014 and now hes scoring movies naomi canton who went to the anokha club night in the 90s travelled to suffolk to meet the musiciandoes fusion music have a future according to youthis idea we have today of fusion is indian classical music with really distasteful western influence that is not what i do indian classical musicians today to be hip and fashionable and to play at those corporate concerts for the uninitiated feel they need to do this fusion have a drummer be dynamically noisy yet be indian and i feel so disgraced by it a lot of indian musicians know nothing about european music yet want an influence of european music in their repertoire you have got to know about both repertoires to harmonically bring them together which is not happeningits crazy how the etiquette of listening to music in india is not there i did this collaboration with electronic artist vinayaka in mumbai anywhere else in the world there would have been pindrop silence but here people were talking away i asked them to put four poles on the stage and cover it with a mosquito net and we sat in the net and played i did not want my instrument to be in front of an audience which is going to talk the instrument is like godyour recording studio is in the uk how come all your commissioned work is overseas nowadaysi live here but i dont really rely on funding here somewhere along the line the uk establishment has decided to nurture mediocrity especially in the asian arts how come the great musicians of india dont play in the uk anymoreits been 20 years since anokha could you imagine the album and club night happening againit would definitely work today weve been asked to do a few anokha nights this year it still sounds so fresh and there is still that renaissance of music happening a lot of styles have stemmed out of that particular style but what they all have in common is this influence of indian classical music within electronica and beats and i think that is what sums up the asian underground and anokha anokha has had a huge influence on music in india back in the day when anokha was happening there was not much happening in terms of electronic music in india apart from goa trance and now its hugeanokha is needed in britain now because it feels like there is so much segregation before if you made a good record if it was sounding indian it was out there if you were asian and you made a record that had