Turanga

Ray's Music Exchange | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 24, 2001)
• Original Release Date: August 24, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Delvian Records
• ASIN: B00005OMUA
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #627,028 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

- Mike Matray - Down Beat Magazine

“...a schizophrenic collage style celebration...Ray’s Music Exchange is all about unity.”

Product Description

Moving beyond traditional realms of jazz and ethnic music, TURANGA is a dangerously beautiful mixture of organic tones and moody washes of powerful sound energies fused with rock, electronic, urban and world music. Recorded in their home town of Cincinnati, TURANGA is a dynamic blend of retro 70's electric jazz spiced with cutting edge sound technology and visionary atmospheres.

Ray's Music Exchange has developed a big underground buzz since their H.O.R.D.E Music Festive appearance in 1998. The Quintet's sound combines the dark mystique of Miles Davis and Hugh Masakela with the intricate dexterity (and sometimes humor) of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, yet remains uniquely their own thanks to a full-throttle injection of electronica and ethno-trance rhythms.

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Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars 1st class jam band jazz fusion, August 4, 2010

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Richard E. Bayer (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Turanga (Audio CD)

Back in the 70's there was some very good music that was influenced by jazz, rock, & classical with the primary ingredient being outstanding musicianship crafted into interesting improvisation. Back then, for lack of a better term, we called it fusion. After the fusion was no longer played on FM and some songs became too difficult to play well because of speed and time signatures and so forth, fusion sort of collapsed under its own weight. Improvisers went on to break new ground but few were listening. Fortunately, the jam band scene is reviving many type of improvisation from this more jazz focused recording to the rock of Phish, Moe, and Umphrey's McGee among others. Ray's Music Exchange plays creative improvised music but rarely tours so are relatively unknown. You may find a few of their concerts for free at etree.org to check them out. This is great music, well-written, and well-recorded. And tell your friends about them...