rāga: that which colours the mind

 

Making Music – George Howlett

 

Lessons & Explorations

• Rāga Jungle: Turntables, Tablas, & Tālas – uncanny similarities between Jungle/DnB and tintal tabla soloing
• Hindustani Rāga Basics for Guitar – introduction lesson for MusicRadar, featuring breakdowns of Bageshri, Jog, and tintal
• Shakti’s Remainder Bar Rhythms – flow in odd-time using an Indo-jazz rhythm trick, no musical experience required
• Alankar: ‘Indian’ Melodic Ornamentation – lesson for MusicRadar on Hindustani & Carnatic slides, bends, & vibrato
• Odd-Time Songwriting Grooves – lesson for MusicRadar featuring Allman Brothers, Zeppelin, Radiohead, and more [forthcoming]

Writing, Reviewing, Interviewing, Odds

• Debashish Bhattacharya’s Guitar Trinity – interview for Darbar
• Back to the Blues: Fresh Indian Forms – interview for Bagri
• Darbar Festival 2016: Living Traditions – review for JazzFM
• Sarathy Korwar: Rhythm Interview – for Música Macondo
• Pharoah Sanders Resonates at Ronnie’s – review for JazzFM
• Drumming: Reich’s Rhythm Spirals – review for JazzFM
• Rāga Jazz Style [Reissue] – review for Música Macondo
• Jaubi: J Dilla Taal Interview – for Música Macondo
• Musical Harmony: How do we dream it? – investigating a strange human capability through quirks of aural perception

• YouTube | Soundcloud – finished music, currently sparse
• Listen to my gurus – Pandit Shivnath Mishra, Benares gharana
• The Church of St. John Coltrane – I pledge allegiance
• WhoSampled – Rāga Junglism finds

• Haphazard website for 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. Contact me at ghowlett128[at]gmail.com