Refuge

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2019-12-10

Label: Subcontinental Records

Refuge is a reflective set of musical themes exploring ideas of home and paying homage to inward journeys. Although created through an intensely personal process, the music deals with the human condition, and finds resonance with listeners across the globe.

Some of the pieces are quite personal in nature; others explore musical ideas alongside broader philosophical ideas. A work in progress since 2005, this album is also a musical scrapbook—a collection of themes from a journey.

Composed and improvised in equal measure, the music bears distinct traces of jazz, Indian folk and classical music, European classical traditions, music from the Americas, Japanese and East Asian aesthetics, West African music, and folk music from around the world, and has been performed in various configurations, featuring instruments as diverse as the saxophone, tabla, duduk, bamboo flute, electric and acoustic bass, voice, bass clarinet, and drum set.

In essence, this is a collection of pieces that originated at the piano, travelling across continents on various collaborations, meeting a multitude of musicians and audiences along the way, only to return to the piano in this avatar.

composed and performed by Aman Mahajan, 2005–2019

recorded by Vishnu Namboothiri
Krimson Avenue Studios, Madras, India, July 2019

mixed and mastered by Sebastian Ohmert
Sonic Impulse Studio, Berlin, August 2019

https://amanmahajan.bandcamp.com/album/refuge
© 2019, Aman Mahajan and Subcontinental Records