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The roots of Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra (GUO) date back to the end of the 19th Century. The Gáyan Uttejak Mandal, the archetype of GUO’s establisher Gáyan Uttejak Society (founded in Hungary, 1981), was operated between 1870 and 1917 by Navraojji Kabraji and V.N. Bhatkhande in Mumbai. The Society was expanded in 1984 with the Archive of Oriental Music, to be considered unique and unrivalled in Eastern Europe, “Gáyan Uttejak Studio” and “Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra”, composed of musicians of the most diverse nationality and being the direct progenitor of the present GUO.
GUO’s music combines music of non-existing mythological worlds and Extra-European high music cultures with creative techniques aimed at a possible, global still virtual language of music that nevertheless differs fundamentally from the realized world music.
In concert, the traditional Hindu-Islamic and classical Asian musical structures and textures are performed by GUO in the original orchestration, effectuating simultaneously a live-electronic sound synthesis controlled by the traditional instruments, in complete conformity with 21st Century traditions of GUO.
More than 50 records published by German, American, Greek, Indian, French, British, Dutch and Hungarian record companies.
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