The first time cellist Matthew Barley met and sat down with renowned Indian classical musician, Amjad Ali Khan, about four years ago now, the pair ended up playing together for eight hours straight. They even composed a new piece of music that day, Barley recalls.
The collaboration came about when Khan approached organisers of one of his Royal Festival Hall concerts with a request to work with a western string player. Promoters were somehow lead to Barley’s door. ‘But the question,’ says Barley, ‘was how to get together with Amjad to have a bit of a jam to see how it was going to work out.’
