Landscapes of Eternity
Album line-up
NAISSAM JALAL flute, vocals, composition
SAMRAT PANDIT vocal
SOUGATA ROY CHOWDHURY sarod
LEONARDO MONTANA piano
NABANKUR BHATTACHARYA tablas
ZAZA DESIDERIO drums
FLO COMMENT tanpura
Out on 27th March 2026, Landscapes of Eternity explores the connection between music, nature, and spirituality at the heart of the Hindustani tradition. Although Landscapes of Eternity is shaped through a contemporary and deeply personal lens, it is rooted in the language of Indian classical music. Traveling alone in North India for several months, Jalal wandered through landscapes and sacred sites, met masters and musicians, absorbed the sounds, smells and sensations of this unique journey, inviting us to a new way of listening to the world. From this experience emerged an intimate, contemplative, and profound repertoire, where the flute becomes the vehicle for an inner journey rooted in the breath of life.
ARTE Concert
« An unprecedented combination of instruments that highlights all the melodic and harmonic inventiveness of the musician. »
Citizen Jazz
« Inspired, the compositions follow the spirit of the tanpura, which plays a continuous drone on four strings, ‘liberating hundreds of harmonies,’ the foundation of Indian music. The audience experiences this immaterial and meditative music through the landscapes and lights evoked in ‘In The Rice Fields at Dawn,’ imagines rice paddies or the monsoon in ‘Soft Rain on a Silent River.’ The beauty of the subdued staging, the talent of musician Flo Comment on the tanpura, and the rapport with the faithful pianist Leonardo Montana leave the audience suspended. »
Jazz in Lyon
« A haunting work, at the crossroads of jazz, modal traditions, and pure improvisation »