Raga Rock

Raga rock was trying to adapt, especially between 1965 and 1970 a popular flow in rock music, the timbre, ajar to Ragas melodic elements and musical instruments of Indian music like the sitar.

In many cases, these experiments were limited to the sonic exoticism of tools and a simple, naive imitations of classical Indian music. The cultural differences between the European- African-American Musiziertechniken and those of Indian music were probably too severe and therefore difficult to combine. Representatives of the movement were represented in the 1960s, increased in the charts and the raga rock experienced with the British band Kula Shaker mid-1990s, an entertaining Renaissance.

It started in July 1965 with the release of the single See My Friends by the group The Kinks. A stopover in Mumbai, during a trip to Australia and New Zealand in January 1965, inspired Ray Davies, the Kinks singer and composer of this piece. The Beatles ( Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown ), 1965; Love You To, 1966; Within You Without You, 1967) also undertook experiments of this kind Thrilled by Ravi Shankar's sitar music traveled George Harrison in 1966 for six weeks to India in Shankar personally to learn the sitar. The groups Yardbirds, Jefferson Airplane and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra and blues musician Paul Butterfield (East West, 1966) used elements of raga rock. Similarly, the Byrds and the Incredible String Band with the term to be associated.

The Concert for Bangladesh 1971 Indian and Western musicians performed separately on the stage, a sign of how little interaction was cultivated in the years before.