Uwe Neumann in search for melody - Page 3

Originally posted by: X-rebel

Qwestji I am amogh.

I thought so did not want to the same mistake again.!!!!!!!!! learned that for life buddy.,,,,,,,,,,,.,

Originally posted by: sonyaee

Thanks for the articles. Never knew or read about Uwe Neumann either.

sonyaee ji, thanks he is good and if you listen I am sure you will like him too.

Originally posted by: leoni

wow simply great...I was ignorant to this information's...u had enlighten me Qwest..thnx 👏

Thanks you leoni ji!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by: soulsoup

Qwest da - I never knew all this info! 😳
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Thanks Anol Da, listen to that link.

Qwest ji, just heard it, its beautiful !

Originally posted by: Qwest

Thanks Anol Da, listen to that link.

Listening right now - WOW!

Now I remember !!

Sometime back I went to an Indian restaurant where there was a non asian playing the sitar and it was beautiful. A friend of mine who was visiting from a university in Montreal told me that he had heard about this great sitarist who plays amazing Sitar and he wasnt Indian but he couldn't remember his naame ..

I love the sitar already and his work has a differnt flow to it..

Originally posted by: madhavi_r108

Now I remember !!

Sometime back I went to an Indian restaurant where there was a non asian playing the sitar and it was beautiful. A friend of mine who was visiting from a university in Montreal told me that he had heard about this great sitarist who plays amazing Sitar and he wasnt Indian but he couldn't remember his naame ..

I love the sitar already and his work has a differnt flow to it..

Thanks Madhavi_r108 ji !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reviews

Rythme et exotisme NoEMI et le sitariste allemand Uwe Neumann offrent une solide performance Les mlodies lgrement arabises par la Sitar de Neumann et les rythmes de dance concoctes par les deux percussionnistes n'ont pas manqu d'entraner festivaliers et simples badauds, qui s,taient masss nombreux pour venir entendre la formation. NoEMI allait poursuivre ce spectacle dj bien amorc avec la pice Petit Marius deviendra grand, une composition du Trio Francois Carrier. Dans cette version plutt exotique, le sitariste Uwe Neumann s,est nouveau fait valoir. Et bien que la formation NoEMI est ne cette anne et reprsente elle seule une belle surprise, c'est plutt le musicien allemand qui demeure le vritable dcouverte de ce spectacle.

Spcialiste de la musique classique indienne, le sitariste a impressionn par sa dextrit et son sens de la mlodie. Il a particulirement prouv ces qualits dans la troisime pice de ce spectacle, o son instrument doublait admirablement le saxophone de Carrier.

Gnial galement dans Sansa pour deux, une pice compltement improvise et interprt l'aide de la sansa, ce petit instrument partir d'une demi-noix de coco laquelle des lamelles de mtal ont t ajoutes. ...

Le Soleil, 29 juin 1998, Quebec

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Sitar casts spell at fest
Uwe Neumann at the Asian Heritage Festival
( The Gazette, July 5, 2002 , Montral )

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Le succs de l'dition 2002 assure les suivantes
Le Festival Rythmes du monde de Victoriaville accueille 3500 personnes

En aprs-midi samedi, la richesse mlodique des ragas indien du groupe Ragleela a vraiment plu aux quelques 300 personnes sous le chapiteau, la place Sainte-Victoire, dans le cadre du Festival Rythmes du monde de Victoriaville. La Tribune, 5 aot 2002, Gilles Besmargian

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Seduced by Indian Rhythms

Beyond the mystique of the land, it's the complex body of art forms that's drawing foreign students to the university that is India. ... they aim to be serious practitioners of Indian art forms.

German guitar man Uwe Neumann, 33, discovered the sitar in a most unusual fashion. As he walked down a crowded Benares lane 10 years back, a stranger approached him and offered free lessons in sitar. Neumann, who had played classical guitar in church choirs and was an accomplished folk and jazz guitarist in hometown Nuremberg, followed the man into a shop, tuned in to the sounds of the sitar and was hooked....

Neumann too was attracted by the unique development of melody in Hindustani classical. "I realized my playing lacked melody. Most of the popular music we're exposed to has a strong beat and harmonic structure, but its melodic content is weak," says the jazzman. He came to Shantiniketan to learn the sitar under Indranil Bhattacharya. There, the versatile artist charmed his teachers by playing the sansa, a traditional African percussion instrument. Neumann has now spent seven years in Shantiniketan and has already earned bachelor's and master's degrees in music and is planning to do a doctoral dissertation. He also runs a one-man band, Ragleela, in which he plays the sitar, acoustic guitar, bass, sansa, and the aboriginal wind instrument, didjeridoo. He has a tabla player who provides the backbeat. "But," says he, "I will only be satisfied with my sitar playing when I am completely accepted in India."

Outlook magazine, India on April 30, 1997

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Ragas in the round

Sitarissimo's Uwe Neumann takes liberties with the script.

Here's the real deal.

... . The sitar itself, meanwhile, is wielded by a German guy, Uwe Neumann. A former jazz-rocker who studied Indian Classical Music for 10 years in the Bengal region, he's comfortable enough with the lore and theory to shape it in a personal fashion.

" We do quite traditional music," says Neumann of Sitarissimo. " A bit more dynamic, maybe, but still traditional ragas. The compositions are partly my own."

More than partly, in the end, due to the inherently improvisational nature of ragas, the foundation of Indian Classical. " It's always improvisations on a theme," he explains. " To define raga is quite difficult in short, but one has a scale, and each note of that scale has it's particular character. The relationship between the notes is defined by how you move from one to the other. " It's a bit like these seven or eight notes are characters in a play. One expresses a particular mood through the relation of these notes- like, one is the boss and one is the helper. So one is the most dominant, one is the secondary dominant, and then other people appear and have their relations, too, to the boss and helper and among themselves." ...

Mirror, 9 November 2000, by Rupert Bottenberg