CD Release 15/2 - 03 on Gravitation Records

PABAN DAS BAUL/JONNY WARTEL

Pavon Das is Baul…

To be Baul is to be crazed by the wind…
The Bauls lives in West- and East- Bengal.
I met Pavon in the beginning of the 80`s in Paris more or less by chance…
A close friendship developed and soon I found myself in India travelling in West-Bengal with Pavon.
Through Pavon, I got to know other Bauls and with them, we played at festivals, in villages, at friends homes, in rich homes in Calcutta, in different ashrams, on the streets, on the roof tops of busses in full speed etc.etc.
Always playing… always on the road… never any plans that couldn`t be changed by the wind.

I did have one plan and that was to make a CD with Pavon where his and my music would meet.
Due to a the budget it had to be a CD without any other musicians involved...
But, like all plans with Pavon our plans were changed and we spontaneously invited them after all…. (they had never heard about Baul before).
We had little time so we started recording on the first note…and everything we recorded is now released on this CD…an uncensored document of east meeting west …
I am very happy with the results and eager to continue our journey…
New plans are being made…. which we will naturally not follow….meanwhile the wind is growing stronger …

Jonny Wartel, saxophones
Pavon Das Baul, dutara, gabbgobbi, duptki and vocals
Mimlu Sen, ektara, korrotal
Per-Anders Pettersson, electric bass
Gunnar Backman, fretted and fretless virtual guitar and live samples
Henrik Wartel, drums , didgeridoo
Andreas Wartel, trumpet , didgeridoo

Jonny Wartel 030103
Bävergatan 2
42671 V.Frölunda
SWEDEN

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