Album Notes

Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra (GUO)

The roots of Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra (GUO) date back to the end of the 19th Century, as the “Gáyan Uttejak Mandal”, archetype of GUO’s establisher, the “Gáyan Uttejak Society” (founded in Hungary, 1981), was operated by Navraojji Kabraji and V.N. Bhatkhande, between 1870 and 1917, in Mumbai. The Society was expanded in 1984 with the “Archive of Oriental Music”, to be considered unique and unrivalled in Eastern Europe, the “Gáyan Uttejak Studio” and the “Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra”, composed of musicians of the most diverse nationality and being the direct progenitor of the current GUO.

Music of GUO 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.