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"Once again Rani Chatoorgoon shows all her talents in this irresistible "Chaotic Wonder" whose music which mixes traditional music (India) and more conventional symphonic rock is deeply imaginative."
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Just two years after having astonished the symphonic rock microcosm with the very successful "Samsara", Rani Chatoorgoon returns with a seven-track EP featuring five new compositions, a radio edit and an alternative version of a previous track. It must be said that the Canadian female singer and songwriter of Indian origin took the crazy bet of mixing rock and metal with Indian music (including traditional).
Rani Chatoorgoon's work is an invitation to close one's eyes, to let oneself be transported and become the director of one's imaginary film. The previous album "Samsara" had as its theme life after death and reaching the ultimate reincarnation and thus brought a certain serenity. "Chaotic Wonder" takes its counterpart slightly. To accentuate this atmosphere, Rani called upon the artistic and orchestral director of Ayreon, Epica, Vuur, After,... the Dane Joost Van Den Broek who brought his know-how in the elaboration of this EP.
Here the symbiosis between rock music tinged with metal and Indian melodic emanations is terribly effective and Rani Chatoorgoon has found the right formula, in this well helped by the talented Sandip Banerjee who brings his science of instruments such as sitar, satoor, tabla, dholak, thavil and many others. This musician is hallucinating dexterity. You only have to listen to the most progressive track of the album 'We Are The Rain' to experience it. The introduction immediately sets the mood with this sitar and tabla quickly and subtly struck, accompanied by the vocal incantations of Rani who also plays the harmonium. A few minutes later, the power of the rock, with its drums and aggressive riffs, sweeps everything away in its path with always this base of exoticism that founds the backbone of the title. The chorus is epic and Rani Chatoorgoon's interpretation is always right, without ever overdoing it, and interesting enough to bring emotions.
One of the most interesting pieces in this search for fusion is 'The Place Beyond The Veil' which in its verses leans on the traditional side and in its chorus more on the European side. The title alternates moments of calm and fearsome power. Rani talks about slaves and masters, sticking to the theme of chaos, domination and submission. 'Only Me' accentuates this subject with a continuous devastating energy where musical bridges give a lot of space to traditional and traveling music. In it Rani claims to be the queen of destiny: while this may be the case in the imagination, in our reality she is the queen of creating effective and engaging fusional harmonies.
Don't miss this little nugget. If "Samsara" was a little too generous, "Chaos Wonder" shows Rani Chatoorgoon's progress in sound experimentation to draw from the musical cultures of East (India) and West (Europe) a fusional richness with a strong identity, epic, melodic, intense. It thus proves one more time that in music, crossbreeding can results in something beautiful. - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. Hello (05:51)
02. Only Me (07:40)
03. The Place Beyond The Veil (05:34)
04. The Flood (05:17)
05. We Are The Rain (08:23)
06. Hello (radio Edit) (04:15)
07. Nightshade (remastered) (04:22)
LINEUP:
Ferry Duijsens: Guitares
Johan Van Stratum: Basse
Joost Van Den Broeck: Orchestrations / Programmation
Koen Herfst: Batterie
Rani Chatoorgoon: Chant / Harmonium
Ruud Jolie: Guitare (7)
Sandip Banerjee: Percussions
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