3

Description

Saagara's new album, 3, is the third installment in this acclaimed collaboration between Polish producer/multi-instrumentalist Waclaw Zimpel and four virtuoso musicians from the South Indian Carnatic musical tradition: percussionists Giridhar Udupa (ghatam), Aggu Baba (khanjira) and K Raja (thavil), and violinist Mysore N. Karthik. It is a buzzing juxtaposition of dense Indian rhythms and pulsating electronic patterns. An album of deeply transformative compositions that navigate between tradition and experimentation and move towards the universal. On 3, the music is not as contemplative as on the two previous albums. Acidic post-club electronic sounds now counterpoint traditional instruments, and the instruments themselves are filtered through contemporary treatments. Saagara's new album brings the ancestral ritual of Carnatic music, a music that transports the listener from one state to another, into a dance with electronic music and its techniques, rhythms, and syntheses.