Quarantine Sessions | Tezeta - Mulatu Astatke | Jayesh Malani | Mohit Agarwal

I decided to take the sax out of the house, one of these days in Quarantine. I was surprised with what my building's staircase had to offer with the Reverb, 36 floors of it! It made the sax sound sooo different. I called up a friend, asked him to come to the staircase and bring his harmonium and decided to do an impromptu jam and shoot it. This was the first time we jammed and improvised on a piece I was working on at the time, Mulatu Astatke's Tezeta. Then I made this film that documents how we all share this moment in time and how things are gonna be completely different here on ahead.
A film by Jayesh Malani
Camera - Jayant Parasher
Assisted by - Akshay Anand Kohli
Sound mix and master - Osho Jain
Additional Camera and Edit - Jayesh Malani

[@constantineslist5890]

Jayesh bhai jordaar ❤

[@ferrisbueller1517]

Reminds me of bombay's sultry melancholy summer afternoons, beautiful!

[@okp3657]

Heard Tezata for the very first time in life, as a background score in season 2 of ‘The Bear’. Led me to the original and then to this gorgeous collab. This stir the depths within me. Thank you very much for sharing. :‘)

[@jayeshmalani2870]

@@okp3657 thank you so much my friend. ❤️

[@seized-timbres]

same here, The Bear + Shazam app brought me here

[@constantineslist5890]

Yes chef🫡

[@saraa3409]

Ahhh wonderful. Great job.

[@itsokaybunny2806]

Beautiful 😍 hope this becomes a little secret

[@jayeshmalani2870]

Thank you so much!

[@howlinthewilderness]

Lovely rendition...the harmonium is perfect for Ethio-Jazz. Cheers from western Canada where I'm playing this on electric guitar.

[@jayeshmalani2870]

Cheers my friend. :)

[@guilirio]

really nice, thank you! the only rendition of this amazing droney song on youtube, congrats!

[@PK-ht4xz]

with only one word. AMAZING

[@moisttowlette123]

Utterly fantastic. Thank you.

[@Bakayaroz]

I love the music video! So peaceful

[@planethamza8504]

Beautiful work guys. Tezeta is my most favorite piece of music. thank you for giving it a new touch with the harmonium

[@satish09elangbam]

Beautiful.

[@nanyo2921]

Came from tiktok to hear this , really amazing and relaxing music 🥰

[@dzyner2k]

Lovely piece, Jayesh.

[@EkKahaniwalaFilmsEKF]

👍

[@Doogyaslep]

Amazing

[@eeshaan09]

I have adored the original version for a while now. Keep up the good work :)

[@jayeshmalani2870]

Thanks so much!

[@alexrazo5392]

Wonderful

[@thesocialisthedgehog6320]

Incredible ambience, just mesmerizing.

[@jayeshmalani2870]

Cheers! ❤

[@jerrylambert8794]

" TOTAL "

[@CrazeDezigns]

i just discovered this song last night from the show "the bear". Nice rendition :)

[@abdillahimohamoud2607]

me too, and I have been listening to it non stop ever since, the best I have ever heard.

[@jayeshmalani2870]

@@abdillahimohamoud2607 Thanks so much!

[@Ethnoamuse]

Opurbo

[@Eduardo-jm2bh]

do you have the notes for this??

[@jayeshmalani2870]

Not really. Its pretty much an improv in C major Pentatonic (mostly) on the Alto Sax, apart from the one time it goes in lydian in the middle.

[@jayeshmalani2870]

Eb Concert key

[@andrewfoulds3437]

Stunning . Where are you ?

[@jayeshmalani2870]

India!

[@beesboxes]

This is beautiful! What scale did you use to improvise on this piece?

[@pieterkranenborg7866]

I haven't been playing sax for that long, but if I play in major C on the sax (major Eb on piano) it sounds good.

[@jayeshmalani2870]

Yes its pretty much an Improv in C major (Pentatonic) on Alto sax, (Eb Concert key), and goes lydian in the middle.