Hot Club of Patan is passionate about sharing jazz manouche with the world and we always seek to collaboarate, learn and share with musicians from around the world. 

A timeless and ubiquitous sound found within gypsy jazz unites the Hot Club of Patan with international musicians who find a common language within the music and a fabric that binds them and subverts cultural barriers.

Over the years HCOP has collaborated with many talented travelling musicians from France, America, Germany, the UK and Italy to name but a few. Below you can find information about some of the collaborators that HCOP has continuing relationships with and will continue to work alongside in the future.

Gypsy (Roma) music traces its origins to South Asia, where the Roma people began their migration around 1,500 years ago. Skilled in trades like entertainment, they left their homelands and traveled through Persia, absorbing Middle Eastern musical influences. 

The links between the cultures of South Asia (Nepal, India and Bangladesh) and Roma culture are still evident today when we look at the similarities between the languages; both the Roma language and the Nepali language have their origins in Sanskrit and Pali with many words and pronunciations in common.

By the 11th century, they had reached the Byzantine Empire and spread into the Balkans and Eastern Europe, bringing with them a unique blend of South Asian, Persian, and local sounds.

In Eastern Europe, particularly in Romania and Hungary, Roma musicians became central to folk traditions, creating styles like Hungarian czardas and Romanian lăutari. In Spain, the Roma, or Gitanos, were instrumental in the development of flamenco. The fusion of Roma folk music with early jazz music began in France, where Django Reinhardt, a Roma traveller himself, began to infuse the harmonic sounds of his cultures music with early jazz. He met with Stephane Grapelli and in the 1930's they founded the "Hot Club Du Paris" and began expounding the music of gypsy jazz.

Roma music is known for its emotional intensity, improvisation, and instrumentation and over centuries, it has fused with local traditions, enriching music cultures. Today, Gypsy music continues to influence folk and popular music around the world, preserving a rich legacy that reflects the Roma’s long journey from South Asia to Europe.

After many years the gypsy jazz tradition is beginning to return to its origins in South Asia. By fusing the music of the Roma tradition with jazz music as well as songs from Nepal in the Nepali language, HCOP is attempting to draw attention to the existing bonds and bring people together, both in Nepal and across the world, and tell them this story. Through doing so the Hot Club of Patan is striving to help the re-establishment and strengthening of these profound cultural links.