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Name .:. Ragawerk - Ragawerk
Genre : Electronic
Source : CDDA
Type .:. Album
Artist : Ragawerk
Label : L + R (Bellaphon)
Titel : Ragawerk
Tracks : 10
Playtime : 56:29
Size : 106,74MB
Encoder : VBRNEW - LAME3.100 - V0
Quality : VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Bitrate : avg. 263kbps
[ Tracklist ]
01.Ab Yeh Kya 05:41
02.I Promise 05:34
03.Grace 07:21
04.Nature Of The Self 06:32
05.Overlays 05:49
06.Das Modul 07:26
07.Theta Wave 04:10
08.Face In The Sky 05:46
09.The Shore 03:49
10.Mangal 04:21
Total 56:29 Min
Fusions of jazz and Indian raga go back to the mid-
1950s, when the London-based Indian composer John
Mayer began experimenting with the concept and, in
the early 1960s, went on to form Indo-Jazz Fusions
with the alto saxophonist Joe Harriott. Meanwhile,
across the pond, John Coltrane became so fascinated
with raga that he named his son after sitar player
Ravi Shankar. Fast forward to the 1970s and British
guitarist John McLaughlin raised the game with
Mahavishnu Orchestra and Shakti.
And so the fun continued until spring 2022, when
jazz's fascination with raga went one step beyond
with the Israeli-born, New York-based tenor
saxophonist Oded Tzur's exalted masterpiece Isabela
(ECM) (which Tzur discusses in an All About Jazz
interview here).
Now, a few month's later, comes German band
Ragawerk's eponymous album, its fourth since 2015.
Previously known as the Max Clouth Clan, Ragawerk is
a quartet led by guitarist Max Clouth and drummer
Martin Standke and completed by bassist Peter Puskas
and keyboarist Georg Boerner. A dozen guest
musicians, most of Indian heritage, contribute to
the album.
Clouth lived and studied in Mumbai for three years
prior to forming the Max Clouth Clan and he and
Standke, who consider themselves primarily to be
jazz musicians, are no mere cultural tourists,
instead approaching the raga tradition with respect.
Ragawerk blends the music with jazz, Krautrock and
electronica. Some tracks, such as opener and first
single "Ab Yeh Kya" (check the YouTube clip below),
are full-on Indo fusions, others lean to a greater
or lesser degree towards Krautrock. The music is
spacey and oftentimes pretty and is ultimately
something of a cross between the Mahavishnu
Orchestra, the Pat Metheny Group and the Krautrock
minimalism of German guitarist and ex-Ash Ra Tempel
leader Manuel Goettsching in the 1980s.
https://www.ragawerk.com