and how the crowds are falling asleep while watching the news on TV, news that in reality is just there to deviate the people’s attention from serious topics.With an Indian flavour In 2008, a new member was incorporated into the family, Marc from Catalonia, who plays sitar, oud (Arabic lute), shekere and keyboards, adding a new dimen- sion to our already wide musical hori- zons. One of those horizons was India, where Marc had been extensively to learn to play the sitar, and just when the band was composing a new reg- gae sound on a traditional raga, the Ladakh Confluence called to invite
Terrakota to perform at the rooftop of the world: the Himalayas.
During a two-week travel in Delhi, the Himalayas and Rajasthan, we took our time to bathe into the Indian culture and jam with local musicians, staying true to the band’s fundaments of soaking up new musical traditions by travelling. They recorded with the carnatic singers Mahesh Vinayakram and Bollywood star Vasundhara Das, and with the gipsy musicians of Ra- jasthan Roots in an improvised hotel room studio in the Poplar Ecoresort in Leh.
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