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Article: Indian Ocean reaches beyond ; Band experiments with new sounds, new instruments, new audiences
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2009
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The band Indian Ocean will not take offense if you call its music
"fusion." For one thing, the Delhi-based foursome is too laid-back
to worry much about labels. And it's true that at first glance
Indian Ocean's approach summons up echoes of Orientalist jazz-rock
projects from the '70s, with their setup of guitar, bass, and drum
kit plus tablas, and their long, improvisation-heavy songs that
weave Western melodic elements into a texture of Indian rhythms.
But this is no Mahavishnu Orchestra or Shakti. For one thing, all
four members are Indians who grew up and still make their home in
the country. Not all of them trained in Indian classical music, but
they take from it not just the rhythm ...