rāga – that which colours the mind
Making Music:
Lessons & Explorations:
- Shakti’s Remainder Bar Rhythms – flow in odd-time using a flexible Indo-jazz rhythm trick
- Rāga Jungle: Turntables, Tablas, & Tālas – similarities between Jungle/DnB and classical tabla soloing, hidden in plain sight
- Rāga Basics for Guitar – Hindustani introduction lesson for MusicRadar
- Alankar: ‘Indian’ Melodic Ornamentation – slides, bends, & vibrato lesson for MusicRadar [forthcoming]
- Odd-Time Songwriting – lesson for MusicRadar [forthcoming]
Interviews, Reviews, 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 through quirks of aural perception
- The Church of St. John Coltrane: I pledge allegiance
- Listen to my gurus: Pandit Shivnath Mishra & family
- WhoSampled: Rāga Junglism profile
- 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. Email me here.
