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Monsoon-Music Monsoon-Music is an independent music label that provides a platform for experimental art music engaged in transcultural exploration.

Monsoon-music is a digital home and community space where all artists retain 100% of their album sales. Jonathan Kay, Andrew Kay and Justin Gray have united under Monsoon-Music to cultivate a creative and harmonious consciousness that aspires towards the highest ideals of humanity through their collective expressions of art and music. Since the dawn of humanity it has been known that music is the

universal language that is both transformative and healing. It is through this ancient science that Indian Raga music has evolved and Monsoon-Music is dedicated to sharing this spiritually healthy music with people from all cultures, offering an enriching and elevating experience. Monsoon-Music is culturing a deep understanding of Eastern philosophy and music, and aims to unify the fabrics of both Eastern and Western music and culture in a harmonious and innovative expression. Through their traditional and contemporary music, the trio hopes to leave a lasting impression on the listener, engaging and challenging them towards inner fulfillment.



“Creative Unity” summarizes and focuses our goals as Monsoon-Music. We believe in the purification of all thoughts and actions into a wider and more luminous plane of consciousness where the individual-self merges with the universal-self. The intuitive and creative expression of our intimate relationship with the universal-self is what we aim to express through our art and music. The dissolution of the self into that of a larger, broader collective consciousness aids in the purification of the ego and ultimately elevates the root motive of all action into a higher and wider light. Monsoon-Music is devoted to creatively expressing a unified consciousness that will elevate and enrich all aspects of our lives. Inspired by their time living in India, the trio aim to infuse their music with the sacred and vibrations first revealed to the ancient mystical yogis. This musical consciousness, passed onto us by our Guru, Shantanu Bhattacharyya, is a powerful instrument of spiritual elevation. By dedication and sincere devotion to these ancient teachings and music practices, Monsoon-Music aspires to create music that elevates the listener into higher and wider planes of being. Monsoon-Music is excited to share their vision of this consciousness by building a community of aspiring and like-minded individuals, and organizing events and concerts that will unify and strengthen our connection with each other and the Cosmos. Since it’s creation, Monsoon-Music has organized a multitude of meaningful and successful events, including 4 wonderful years of The Toronto Indo-Jazz Festival, and The Monsoon-Music Scholarship was created to raise money for under-privileged music students in rural India, and Monsoon-Music has successfully donated thousands of dollars to make a lasting difference in these children’s lives.

Visit our Bandcamp page and purchase our latest album: digital, vinyl, and tshirts. All money goes directly to the artis...
05/12/2025

Visit our Bandcamp page and purchase our latest album: digital, vinyl, and tshirts. All money goes directly to the artists.

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13/11/2025

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Join our listening party on Bandcamp, happening LIVE NOW:
08/11/2025

Join our listening party on Bandcamp, happening LIVE NOW:

Join Andrew Kay and Jonathan Kay for a Listening Party for the release of their latest album 'The Coltrane Sutras: Cosmic Threads of Becoming'. Come listen to the music, chat together and ask questions about the concept, how it was made, and celebrate the release of this album to the world.

Toronto Indo-Jazz Festival 2025: Bridging India and Canada Through MusicOctober 24 – November 14, 2025 | Toronto, Canada...
22/10/2025

Toronto Indo-Jazz Festival 2025: Bridging India and Canada Through Music
October 24 – November 14, 2025 | Toronto, Canada

The Toronto Indo-Jazz Festival (TIJF) returns for its 7th edition with an inspiring series of performances that bring together Indian classical and jazz traditions through a lens of collaboration, innovation, and cultural dialogue. Curated by Andrew and Jonathan Kay (Monsoon-Music), the 2025 festival unfolds across Toronto’s leading cultural venues — the Aga Khan Museum and Small World Centre — in partnership with ISHQ Festival, Raag-Mala Toronto, Small World Music, and the Aga Khan Museum.
From the ancient Guru-Shishya Parampara to boundary-pushing Indo-Jazz, the festival explores how music transcends borders, generations, and genres.

🎶 October 24 – In Conversation with Pandit Shantanu Bhattacharyya
ISHQ Festival @ Small World Music Centre | 8 PM
An intimate evening of conversation moderated by Andrew Kay with Pandit Shantanu Bhattacharyya, one of India’s leading vocalists, joined by Jonathan Kay, his long-time student and collaborator, and Mitra Bhattacharyya, a rising vocalist and scholar. Together, they will share insights into the Guru-Shishya Parampara — the traditional Indian teacher-disciple relationship — and perform select works that illuminate the living transmission of this art form.
🔗 Tickets: https://smallworldmusic.com/shows/in-conversation-with-pt-shantanu-bhattacharyya/

🌾 October 25 – Sowing the Seeds
Opening Night of the Toronto Indo-Jazz Festival @ Aga Khan Museum | 7:30 PM
The festival officially opens with a performance of deep lineage and collaboration. Pandit Shantanu Bhattacharyya will be joined by his wife Durba Bhattacharyya, daughter Mitra Bhattacharyya, and tabla artist Sudhir Kumar Ghorai. Disciples Andrew and Jonathan Kay will open the night with a transcultural performance blending Indian raga and jazz improvisation, symbolizing the rich musical dialogue between India and Canada.
🔗 Tickets: https://agakhanmuseum.org/whats-on/sowing-the-seeds/

🌱 November 2 – New Horizons
Small World Music Centre | 7 PM
New Horizons celebrates the next generation of Indo-Jazz voices. Featuring AMRITA, a dynamic duo featuring soprano saxophonist Kayla Milmine and tabla player Anita Katakkar. Rooted in North Indian classical music and modal jazz, their sound blends intricate rhythms, thematic melodies, and spontaneous improvisation. Amrita’s music is shaped by a shared love of odd time signatures, expressive tone, and the interplay of texture and emotion.
Gandhaar Amin (bansuri, electronics) and Dhaivat Jani (tabla, electronics), this electrifying duo merges traditional Indian instruments with contemporary sound design, weaving grooves, melodies, and textures that embody the evolving landscape of global fusion music.
🔗 Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/toronto-indo-jazz-25-new-horizons-tickets-1835450615199

🎷 November 14 – The Coltrane Sutras
Aga Khan Museum | 8:30 PM
The festival concludes with the long-awaited album release of The Coltrane Sutras — an extraordinary reimagining of John and Alice Coltrane’s spiritual music through the lens of Indian classical and global jazz traditions. The concert features an all-star ensemble: Pat LaBarbera, Roberto Occhipinti, Adam Teixeira, Dhaivat Jani, Andrew Kay, and Jonathan Kay, in a transcultural performance that blurs boundaries and celebrates unity through sound.
🔗 Tickets: https://agakhanmuseum.org/whats-on/the-coltrane-sutras/
VIP TIckets (Front 3 rows), Double LP Vinyl Record of the album, T-Shirts and other merch is available through Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monsoon-music/the-coltrane-sutras-cosmic-threads-of-becoming-album

About the Toronto Indo-Jazz Festival
Founded and directed by Andrew and Jonathan Kay, the Toronto Indo-Jazz Festival is a platform for artistic exchange and innovation at the intersection of Indian classical music and jazz. Through concerts, collaborations, and educational programs, TIJF nurtures cross-cultural dialogue between India and Canada, fostering community connections across the Greater Toronto Area.
Presented in collaboration with ISHQ Festival, Raag-Mala Toronto, Small World Music, and the Aga Khan Museum, TIJF continues to expand the boundaries of musical expression while deepening appreciation for the living traditions that inspire it.

Festival Dates: October 24 – November 14, 2025
Venues: Small World Music Centre & Aga Khan Museum
🎟️ Tickets & Full Festival Details: www.torontoindojazzfest.com

Media Contact:
Andrew Kay
Artistic Director | Toronto Indo-Jazz Festival
📧 [email protected] | 🌐 www.torontoindojazzfest.com

We're a 1/3rd of the way to our goal!! Please support our campaign and get awesome rewards!
15/10/2025

We're a 1/3rd of the way to our goal!! Please support our campaign and get awesome rewards!

Reimagining the Coltranes’ legacy of transcendence and revolution as a new soundworld of improvisation, spirit, and collective becoming

We are a third of the way there!! Thank you to everyone who has supported so far!! We have a ways to go to reach our go...
14/10/2025

We are a third of the way there!! Thank you to everyone who has supported so far!!

We have a ways to go to reach our goal, and need your support. Remember if we don’t reach our goal, we have to return all pledges. So please support, share and pledge to help us release this album!!

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25 days to go and we are 22% funded towards our goal!! Thank you to everyone who has already pledged their support for a...
07/10/2025

25 days to go and we are 22% funded towards our goal!! Thank you to everyone who has already pledged their support for a variety of sweet rewards.

The most popular reward so far is a tight race between the Double vinyl package, the t-shirt package, and the VIP Album release package.

Please share around and let people know about the campaign and help us to launch this incredible album to the world!!

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Proud to be partners in presenting this and being a part of the discussion. Andrew Kay will moderate and Jonathan Kay wi...
01/10/2025

Proud to be partners in presenting this and being a part of the discussion. Andrew Kay will moderate and Jonathan Kay with take part in the discussion along side Mitra Bhattacharyya and her father and guru Shantanu Bhattacharyya.

Surely be a rich dialogue about spirituality in raga music.

In Conversation with Pt. Shantanu

Presented by Small World Music

In partnership with Raag Mala Toronto and Toronto Indo Jazz Festival

ISHQ Festival invites you to an intimate discussion with Pandit Shantanu Bhattacharyya, one of India’s leading Hindustani vocalists, moderated by Toronto musician and educator Andrew Kay. Together, they will explore the deep connections between spirituality and Raag Sangeet, and the transformative power of Indian classical music as a meditative, devotional practice.

Let this one-of-a-kind night open something within.

🗓️ Oct 24 , 2025
📍 Small World Centre
⏰ Doors at 7:30 PM | Show at 8:00 PM

🎫 Get tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-conversation-with-pt-shantanu-bhattacharyya-tickets-1567716023829?

Bandcamp Friday! Please take a moment to browse our catalogue of eclectic original music by inspiring artists and PURCHA...
06/12/2024

Bandcamp Friday! Please take a moment to browse our catalogue of eclectic original music by inspiring artists and PURCHASE the music to support artists directly!!

Monsoon-Music is an independent music label that provides a platform for experimental art music engaged in cross-cultural exploration. We live in a time of rich cultural dialogue and global interconnection which has in turn inspired unprecedented diversity and creativity in the arts. Monsoon-music i...

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We live in a time of rich cultural dialogue and global interconnection which has in turn inspired unprecedented diversity and creativity in the arts. Monsoon-music is an online home which supports cross-cultural exploration and experimentation.

Monsoon-music was founded in 2006 by Jonathan and Andrew Kay and Justin Gray. Since then Monsoon-music has earned a reputation for supporting cross-cultural dialogue and art. Based on Toronto, Canada, Monsoon-music is engaged in bringing artists together from all cultural heritages, encouraging the confluence of traditional music with contemporary forms of expression.

With digital recording technology more accessible then ever, online musical content creation has exploded, and the advent of global internet accessibility has enabled independent artists unmediated accessibility to specialized audiences. On one side of the coin, the digital age has created a new paradigm for the independent artist, with unlimited possibilities in the digital interconnected world. Free from the artistic limitations of profit oriented music labels, online interconnectivity makes it more possible then ever for artists to explore musical creation on their own terms.

On the other side of the coin, online music streaming sites have lead to unprecedented accessibility of music, which have drastically reshaped of the mode of music consumption in the digital age. This has it’s benefits, but has also instigated irreversible damage to the music industry leading towards the ultimate devaluation of music. It is undeniable that globalized techno-capitalism is reshaping subjectivity through modes of digital consumption and the music industry has become a game of designing momentary viral trends, in which algorithms (based on unethically mined data) predict and manipulate the next virtual sensation.