Krita Yuga
Electronic/Alternative/Experimental music featuring Sitar/Vocal
4
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42 42
Inspired by 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.' Trying to describe 42 which is the ultimate answer for 'Life, the Universe, and Everything.'
Raga Asawari Alap Raga Asawari Alap
Sitar-solo imptovisation based on Raga Asawari.
As a young Japanese boy, Yuga originally wanted to be a manga creator or a computer game programmer until he grabbed his first electronic guitar. He soon became interested in computer music and bought his first sequencer and synthesizer.
A few years later, He felt he seemed to be having tremendous difficulty with his life-style, and thus he got totally fed up with his life in Japan. He impulsively left Japan with a small day bag and a towel, and wandered around Eurasian countries for some years. In his wandering years, he was so fascinated with the sound of sitar in India that he leaned sitar there. He also came up with an idea to create some kind of electronic music featuring sitar as the lead instrument. In India he had a lot of special experiences and went through many changes within himself. He had some kind of inexplicably transcendental experience in the holy town Varanasi. So he thinks Varanasi is his second home town.
He went to Europe after he left India. When he was busking on a street in Amsterdam, he was invited to Norway by a Norwegian producer, and experienced some professional studio sessions as a sitar player there.
After he returned to Japan, he resumed his own music projects. He initially used his computer just as a recorder, and wasn't very interested in designing his own sound. As time goes by and his desire for creating his own unique sounds grows, he naturally started to learn how to program synthesizer patches, and for a period of time, he just created sounds and didn't write any songs.
He hadn't been much into beat programming, until he started to listen to some bleepy artists such as Boards of Canada and Amon Tobin. He now (has to) spend quite some time for beat programming.
Now he has finally acquired sitar, sound design, and music production skills and tools required to create music he has had in his mind for many years, he calls this style of music electoraga.
But because of his mercurial nature, he has problem with sticking to a specific style of music and tends to go eclectic. He lately started to record his own singing, and now mainly training his skills as a singer, as he has written a bunch of vocal songs in addition to instrumental songs and he wants to somehow make them audible before his time expires.
He had been interested in creating experimental music that no one has created. He is, however, now more interested in creating music, which is a tad fresh and new yet somewhat cheesy, in other words, a catchy avant pop/rock music.
I'm looking for collaborators in the Tokyo metropolis area. If your are a singer or a musician, feel free to contact me.
http://myspace.com/kritayugaYour musical influences
Bjork, Radiohead, Masiive Attack, Ravi Shankar, Nikhil Banerjee, Vilayat Khan, Philip Glass, Amon Tobin, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Sigur RosWhat equipment do you use?
Siatr, synthesizer, guitar, bass, computer
Saitama-ken,
Japan
ID
610319
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Comments (3)
hello there, just listened to your tracks, fantastic quality, really well produced, lots of thought and imagination.
I thought invisible walls was well sung and had alot of depth, nicely done.
Smashan tara had some nice programmed drums but i was hoping it would all kick off and go crazy in a full on squarepusher way but remained constrained but still a good track nontheless.
Loved 42, nice dark filthy bass/synthlines and kicks off with sitar and tabla, top stuff.
Raga asawari alap was really well played but seemed a little flat, seemed lacking stereo dimension, there was some subtle delay there but maybe throw a little sound through some slow subtle chorus or flanger sends then through some subtle verb, still, it was an interestion track, very enjoyable.
Please let met me know if you ever upload more music here and say hello on my soundclick page,
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Hi, just listened to '42', I like it. Very nice scratchy beats rolling over chilled atmospherics. The sitar works well and I like the beat programming, added to the station. Cheers, keep up the good work!
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