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Ragleela Jai Ma CD in stores and available on our website
Ragleela Jai Ma also as digital download at iTunes, Napster and all
Check out our website also http://www.ragleela.com
Ragleela won the Galaxie Rising Stars Award 2006
Ragleela live streaming on CBC website at : http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20090312ragle
Ragleela unifies the rich heritage of Indian Music and melody with the concept of modal occidental music and harmony.
Ragleela performs only original pieces, where Uwe Neumann tells lyrical melodic stories with his sitar over the densely woven modal patterns of Jean-Marc Hébert and the drive and groove of Shankar Das.
Uwe Neumann has lived and studied full time for 10 years in India with the sitarmaestro Pandit Indranil Bhattacharya and received a Bachelors and Master-of-Music Degree on Sitar from Indian University in Shantiniketan.
He had studied classical guitar and jazz-rock in Germany 1974-86. He founded Ragleela in 1990 and had many classical, world-music and television concerts all over India, including a unique performance at the Millennium-Concert for H.H. the Dalai Lama in Benares, at the Alliance Francaise in Pondicherry, at the Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture with tabla virtuoso Subhen Chatterjee and the prestigious hall Rabindra-Sadan in Calcutta.
Uwe Neumann arrived in Canada in the year 2000 to share the treasures of this music and gave since then more than 200 concerts with Ragleela, Sitaria and other world music projects like at the Festival Musique Multi Montréal with Radio-Canada recording, Festival "Rhythms of the World" Victoriaville, International Jazz Festival in Montreal with NoEMI, Diversity and Starbelly Festivals in BC with Adham Shaikh, East-meets-West Concert Series at Concordia University, International Jazz Festival in Quebec with NoEMI, Asian Heritage Festival 2002,03,04,05, Performances with tabla virtuoso Partha Sarathi Mukherjee and Kathak-dancer Akram Khan, Salle La Basoche in Gatineau …
Having studied classical guitar at the university in Toronto from 1980-1987, Jean-Marc Hébert concentrates on instrumental composition. He is co-founder of the music group Skalène, with whom he already recorded three albums. He performed with this group all over Quebec and on the international scene in Vancouver, New York, Chicago and Vienna. He also worked in collaboration with Caroline Dufour, with whom he recorded her first album.
Jean-Marc Hébert is working with Ragleela since end of 2000 and takes a major role in the new arrangements of the compositions with his astounding sense of harmony.
Bertil Schulrabe on tabla studied drums at St-Laurent College and with different private teachers: Paul Brochu, Magella Cormier and Ian Froman. He specialised further in the tabla, which he studied with Partha Sarathi Mukherjee since 1999. He performed with world music groups Zekuhl (Africa), Said Mesnaoui (Marocco), Katjar (World-jazz) and Tierra (South-America) and appears on 17 CDs.
Bertil is playing tabla with Ragleela since 2001 and received a scholarship of the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec for a tabla intensive course in India with Partha Sarathi Mukherjee (2004)
Marie-Soleil Bélanger performs with her violin for years with Richard Desjardins, with Yves Desrosiers, Thomas Hellman and Jeszcze Raz and can be heard on CDs of Lhasa, Plume Latraverse, Dobacaracol, Pierre Lapointe and of course with Richard Desjardins.
Eric Breton plays percussion in many musical styles (Africa, Maghreb, Brazil, Haiti, Cuba).
He recorded with Alain Carron, Michel Cusson, Geneviève Paris and performed with Isabelle Boulay, Luck Mervil, André Gagnon, and Lili Fatale. Presently he shares stages with Gitans de Sarajévo, Perdu l'Nord, Amalgama, Sertao and Ragleela.
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