Kavi Pau’s production of O rey chhori (Hey girl!) from the 2001 Bollywood film Lagaan infuses it with music by German composer JS Bach.

Episode 3 explores how the Bansuri is being used in novel ways outside of the Indian classical music tradition.

Episode 2 provides tips for composers and musicians who wish to write music for the Bansuri in their work. The episode explains what is stylistic in traditional Hindustani classical music, and explores similarities with western Baroque ornamentation.

Episode 1 is an introduction to the Bansuri, a bamboo flute of Northern India. In this episode, we explore the Bansuri's history from temples to courts to concert halls as well as the different sounds and moods created on larger and smaller flutes.

This Dhrupad (Indian classical vocal form) has been arranged for choir by Dr Kanniks Kannikeswaran, a composer of Indian descent based in the USA.

Episode 3 focuses on how western musicians can compose for the tabla, exploring stylistic features and how these might be notated.

Shanta Karam is a Sanskrit prayer (mantra) to Lord Vishnu, the protector and preserver of the universe in Hinduism.

Episode 2 focuses on the sounds of the tabla, exploring open and closed sonorities, and how these have been historically notated and passed down in India.

Episode 1 focuses on the history of the tabla, its origins as a logdrum and the resonant sounds the tabla can create.

We’ve arranged this cantata by Bach for bansuri, piano, baroque cello and singer. Bach wrote more than 200 cantatas in his lifetime. These are sung pieces, often religious in nature. The bansuri plays a virtuosic role here, replacing the oboe in Bach’s original!

This wonderful music was composed in 1840 by Robert Schumann for the first song in his song cycle Dichterliebe (A poet's Love). The cycle tells the story of a young man coming to terms with unrequited love and has a very tragic ending!

Originally featuring in the 1957 Indian movie Narsi Bhagat, we’ve reimagined this bhajan (sacred Hindu song) for a fusion jazz ensemble featuring vocals, plucked bass, piano and tabla.

We got together with Misha Mullov-Abbado to record a meditative take on Raga Kedar for double bass and piano. The piece is based on an ‘Alap’ – the opening section of an Indian classical piece, where a soloist improvises on top of a background drone.

Meaning ‘After a dream’, this song was composed by Gabriel Fauré in 1878 for voice and piano. We’ve added Indian embellishments and put the vocal line on a Bansuri.

Our debut single is here! An arrangement of the iconic Bollywood song Chaiyya Chaiyya, originally composed by A.R. Rahman for the film Dil Se.

The wonderful mezzo and conductor Shivani Rattan talks about how the Third Culture Collective brings a fresh sense of diversity to the western classical music industry.

Check out what singer Robin Datta has to say about being part of the Third Culture Collective choir, where the majority of performers are of South Asian descent.