Thursday 28 November 2019

Patanga - Patanga (1985)


The one and only album from this German band.

The band was a quartet with a lineup of pan flute, sitar, tabla, bass, acoustic guitar, banjo, percussion and keyboards.

This band was a very short lived band and it is more than possible that the band was a music academy project as the music has that feel and ambience. The album was released on an obscure record label and the band is not known to have gigged.

The music is instrumental folk rock with some Indian and South-American influences. The Indian influences are very strong.

The use of pan flute is very unusual in these settings as the pan flutes was mostly used in cheap and nasty commercial elevator music back then.... and now.

The music on this thirty-five minutes long album is a mix of intense high speed and some more laidback music. The musicians is pretty much masters on their instruments. Hence my suspicions that this is a music academy project. My guess is that all four musicians got their deserved good grades.

There is some keyboards pieces here in addition to mostly the acoustic pieces.

The end result is a respectable and highly original album who is not making big waves but is still a decent enough album. Check it out if folk music rocks your boat.

2 points





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