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Artist.....: Ranga
Album......: The Tabla Trail
Type.......: WEB Album
Genre......: Ambient
Style......: Ambient
Label......: Aquarius Int'l Music, Inc.
CatalogNr..: 600525009726
Url........: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ranga
Rel.date...: 19.05.2010
Str.date...: 15.06.2005
Source.....: WEB MP3 VBR
Grabber....: Unknown
Encoder....: Lame 3.97 -V 2 --vbr-new
Quality....: VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Tracks.....: 10
Size.......: 83,89 MB
Length.....: 60:08
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Tracklist
01. Anand Prabat 05:41
02. Down The River 04:04
03. After The Eclipse 06:48
04. The Levitated Forest 05:27
05. Rapids 05:38
06. Herculean Orbit 05:50
07. Jeremiah 05:24
08. Revival 04:27
09. TheBlueBottle 06:46
10. Nile Shuffle 10:03
Total Time: 60:08
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Release Notes
TED DE JONG, born in Amsterdam in 1954, began studying the tabla at the age
of fourteen. Among his teachers were the late Ustad Latif Ahmed Khan and Ustad
Faiyaz Khan, who were largely responsible for training de Jong into one of the
foremost Western tabla players of today. He has vast experience in the world
of Classical Hindustani Music, accompanying many well known artists, including
Sachdev, Prabhatre, Sruti Sadolikar, Ustad Rais Khan. Pt. Ram Naryan, Pt.
Budhaditya Mukherjee, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, and many others.
As well as being a performer, de Jong has lectured and taught at the
Rotterdam Academy of Music and Dance in the Netherlands since 1987. In 1999 he
became coordinator of the school's prestigious Indian Music Department, which
welcomes guest teachers like Ustad Faiyaz Khan, Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta, Pt.
Budhaditya Mukherjee, and Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia on a yearly basis.
For Ted de Jong, classical Indian music is the fundament of his musical
training. In addition to his specialization in the art of tabla, de Jong has
studied sitar as well as classical Indian vocal music, which he studied with
the late Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan of the Agra Gharana. From this basis, de
Jong has sought out new ways of presenting Indian music to a wider audience
through experimental (fusion) projects with other traditions. His
collaborations have included performing and producing work with Florian
Friecke (Popol Vuh), Al Gromer Khan - although in a more classical context,
and Klaus Wiese, with whom he produced several CDs, including the
world-bestselling sufi-trance-dance album: "el-Hadra".
COEN HELFENRATH
The son of a goldsmith and clockmaker, COEN HELFENRATH was born in Holland in
1950 to a music-loving family. He took classical piano lessons for two years
as a young child, although he preferred playing soccer to practising his
scales. His interest in the piano and in music revived after high school when
he formed the pop group ALPHA CENTAURI with MARTEN VAN BATENBURG.
HELFENRATH earned a degree in psychology and began a 25-year career as an
astrologer. Music became an increasingly important element in his life.
Throughout the 1980s he collaborated extensively with the Dutch musician and
artist RINSE POSTHUMA, including composition for films, theatre and dance
performances, improvisations with other musicians, and pop songs. In 1988,
HELFENRATH also wrote a song-cycle based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. He
also has worked with emerging artists in developing their singing potential
and self-expression.
In the summer of 1991 a few musicians came together in a small cottage in the
woods in The Netherlands. For years this place had been a musical hideaway and
later came to be called the House to Hyde studio. The aim of the project,
called Eaon, was to explore new ways of improvisation through expressing the
silence and tranquillity of nature. TED DE JONG and COEN HELFENRATH took part
in this project and discovered a musical synchronicity between them that led
to a long and successful collaborative career as RANGA.
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