solo acoustic guitar, inspired by Nick Drake - DADGBC tuning

Icarus (For Nick Drake) [Rough Sketch 2013]

first sketch attempt at layering acoustic guitar lines on top of each other

Perihelion [Rough Sketch 2013]

turning the colour of Bonobo's instrumentation and production down to the black & white of just acoustic guitar

Kiara: Prelude [rough sketch 2013]

www.ragajunglism.org

Guitar - George Howlett
Tabla - George Howlett
Sax - Jesse Bannister
Drums - written with NI Battery 4 samples

Jesse is on fire, I couldn’t have asked for more here - no surprise as he’s one of the best Indo-jazz sax players of all time. I sent him the loop, broken tabla solo, and some vague thoughts on playing over a stretched jungle-tempo rhythm, and he sent back a 17-min improvisation full of intriguing ideas - multiphonics, rhythmic sophistication, Indian melodic inflections, plenty else. Shades of Raag Bageshri and Kalavati in there, and also of John McLaughlin’s playing in Shakti. Was a dream to cut it up and down into the final solo - stretching notes, splicing melodies together, displacing to find new resolutions over the ambiguous 1-beat, etc. Structure is mine but the ideas are his and they shine out. To be properly mixed and mastered some time.

Listen to more of Jesse:
www.jessebannister.co.uk/about 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sSgJaBoD_Y

rāga - that which colours the mind

No Kanjira (with Jesse Bannister)

rāga - that which colours the mind

George Howlett, musician and music writer. I play guitar, tabla, santoor, and hand percussion, and write about topics loosely related to jazz, jungle, rhythm, and Indian Classical. I’m currently a writer-in-residence for Darbar Festival, and am recording a Rāga Junglism EP.

www.ragajunglism.org

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