He works in an eclectic range of styles and groups, from the more traditional South Indian classical music of his group Tamil Classics, to the multi-cultural collaborations of his work with the band Dissidenten. Yoga is also a member of the 16 voice band The Shout who will be serenading the Royal Festival Hall's reopening as part of a 48 hour music marathon in June 2007. He has received acclaim for his appearances at festivals such as WOMAD, Glastonbury and Montreaux Jazz and last year's BBC Proms, and has worked with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Spitalfields Festival.

Manickam Yogeswaran is based in London and is available all the year with his two different groups: “Peace for Paradise” & “Tamil Classics”.
A concert with both formations is also possible.

Peace for Paradise :
P4P stands for Peace for Paradise. P4P is an ambitious project with a vigorous, internationalist perspective born of the Sri Lankan experience. It has grown out of a project personal to Manickam Yogeswaran. Since Yoga – as he is helpfully named – first formulated the Peace for Paradise project in 2000, it has travelled hopefully on the road to peace for Sri Lanka. And continually grown in terms of its musical ambition and experimentation. Music can be a positive life force. It is a life force that can join together people separated otherwise by sect, politics, language or ethnicity. Granted, music may well appeal more to an alliance of the willing or to people amenable or open to its barrier-crossing revelations. That is why P4P’s music keeps on having everything to do with accentuating the positive, reaching out and dissolving boundaries.
 Manickam Yogeswaran, the musician at P4P’s heart, has more reasons than most to accentuate and celebrate the positive. In January 2000, Yoga began to record Peace for Paradise with its central theme of the propagation of peace in Sri Lanka. Yoga had better reasons than most to believe that an enduring Peace is the only way forward for his homeland’s security, safety and sanity. In October 1987 his father and one of his sisters died in crossfire in the Sri Lankan city of Jaffna while trying to flee to safety.
 P4P reunites Yoga once again with Marlon Klein, one of the master rhythmists of our day. Marlon is fluent bilingually in Western rhythmicality and South Indian drumming sonorities and rhythm cycles. Yoga and Marlon have collaborated for what seems like a lifetime in a continent shift of musical contexts. Their best known work is within and without Dissidenten, one of foremost originators of serious world music of the deeper kind born out of decades of living in other cultures – rather than popping in as musical tourists and popping out with a new album. They are joined by another fellow traveller, the boundary-crossing guitarist Jens Fischer with the loop lasso. Three of a kind. All three brothers in melodicism and rhythmicality. Or in P4P’s case, rhythmic melody and melodic rhythmicality.

Tamil Classics:
Tamil Classical music links back to pre-Vedic times, about 5000 BC. At this time the foundations of Indian music were laid. The most ancient roots of Indian music, however, relate back to Tamil or even to the mysterious Dravidian culture of south India. The music of the South India’s classical tradition, known as Carnatic (or Karnatic or Karnatak) music, is equally at home in the tranquillity of the Temple as it is on the concert stage, the world of the recording studio or the hurly-burly of the market place. Its very adaptability is the key to its venerability and its multi-millennial soul.
 
Sir Annamalai Vallalar, the founder patron of the Tamil Isai Sangam (a great institution for propagation of Tamil Classical music in India) and great composer and musician the late Tandapani Desigar were in the forefront of the revival of Tamil music in the early 20th century. It is up to today’s musicians to pass on these precious signals from prehistoric times of mankind. Even though in his world he has been collaborating with musicians from all corners and cultures of the world, Manickam Yogeswaran relates strongly to the roots of Tamil’s millenniums-old culture.