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Release Date: 07-10-2004
Label: Jaro Medien
Catalog Number: JARO4263-2
Barcode: 4006180426322
Musical Style: World
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Funny Rain [04:25] | 6 | Liming 'n Wining [07:01] |
| 2 | Pan Yard [06:22] | 7 | Moonlight Sight [10:36] |
| 3 | Joy'ning [07:15] | 8 | Ocean View [04:00] |
| 4 | TakeCarib [03:57] | 9 | Wake Up... You're Late! [05:42] |
| 5 | Enjoy Lambeau [06:12] | 10 | Tropic Stars [12:45] |
Description:
There's nothing else like it in the world – this blend of Indian ragas, jazz, ambient, trance and shamanic elements, Harry Payuta’s special brand of Trance World Music.
Naturally, on india redhot blue the Indian sitar plays the main role. Harry Payuta also made frequent use of the Indian surbahar – sometimes referred to as the 'bass sitar' – an instrument quite seldom played these days. He was particularly captivated by the combination of the sitar and the surbahar on several tracks. A very wide spectrum of tones can be attained with this mix.
Payuta wrote the compositions for many of these ten pieces while living on Trinidad and Tobago in 2003. It was there that he first heard the fusion of Indian and Creole music using the sitar, steel drum, tabla and Caribbean percussion. The experience left a clear mark on india redhot blue, one example being the integration of the steel drum on two tracks. The overall feeling of his sojourn on T&T vibrates and echoes throughout this music.There's nothing else like it in the world – this blend of Indian ragas, jazz, ambient, trance and shamanic elements, Harry Payuta’s special brand of Trance World Music.
The album is very melody-oriented and ranges from rhythm to rock while also revealing clear jazz influences.
Biography:
In the mid 1990s Harry Payuta undertook productive collaboration with old Krautrock heroes from bands like Embryo and Amon Düül, leading to the foundation of the ethno trance jazz project Ear Tranceport. The band, also integrating musicians from Mali and Morocco, was soon touring Europe. More or less concurrently, this multifaceted musician was also active in the dance-floor area, playing and touring with the Mojo-Club of Hamburg.
Since 2000, Harry Payuta has come out with five CDs under his own name or with the band Payuta & Friends, a series of albums initially leaning towards the Australian didjeridoo as well as various trance, ambient and soft techno elements. From the very beginning, though, they also contained certain hints of Payuta’s love for Indian sounds. In the meantime, the multi-instrumentalist (sitar, surbahar, tanpura, guitar, E-bass, didjeridoo, keyboards and percussion) has declared the sitar to be his main instrument. It is the sitar that defines the sounds and the melodies!
In 2002, Payuta also made a name for himself as a remixer. He appeared on two tracks of the remix CD Spirits of Tuva, dedicated entirely to the fascinating overtone and laryngeal song of the Mongolian group Huun-Huur-Tu, an ensemble in demand the world over. In September 2002, that album made it to the very top of the European world music charts. For a musician like Harry Payuta, long and well acquainted with overtone music, the collaboration with Huun-Huur-Tu was a logical development.
