ALCHEMY: Susheela Raman/Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwals

You haven’t embraced fusion until you’ve heard Raman’s Anglo-Pakistani-Indian take on Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Voodoo Chile’. Drawing on Indian classical music and global pop culture, the London-born Tamil singer (and former Mercury Prize nominee) returns to the Southbank’s Alchemy festival following last year’s triumphant concert of qawwali (devotional Sufi music). This outing should be even better, as Raman is joined by Rizwan and Muazzam, nephews of the Pakistani qawwali star Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, as well as The Master Musicians of Rajasthan, tabla player Aref Durvesh, and Susheela’s producer and guitarist Sam Mills.