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English version, below french text:
En 2014, après plus de 20 ans au sein de The Young Gods, Al Comet s’envole pour l’Inde afin de s’initier au sitar auprès d’un maître, sur les rives du Gange, à Varanasi.
Passer du son du sampler à celui de l’ancestral sitar Indien fût une aventure en soi. Il conjugue depuis lors concerts et productions discographiques sous le nom de Mahadev Cometo.
En combinant ses savoirs, il propose aujourd’hui un nouvel univers sonore, une nouvelle expérience musicale, entre tradition et modernité.
Le live s’accompagne des peintures holocinétiques de K-soul, entre lumière, peinture et poésie.
Raag – राग, in the Sanskrit dictionary, is defined as the act of coloring or dyeing (the mind in this context) and any feeling or passion, especially love, affection, sympathy, vehement desire, interest, joy, or delight.
It could be closely referred to as scales in the western music. Yet, it is a combination of various features like tunes, melody, modes, scales, etc that form a complete raag.
Videos
Videos of Mahadev Cometo playing «Raag Shivaranjani Super Mishra»:
Videos of Mahadev playing «Raag Shivaranjani» (not «Raag Shivaranjani Super Mishra», yet!) in Varanasi, Assi Ghat, November 2011, at Mahadev’s first stay in India: Raag Shivaranjani part 1, part 2, part 3.
Clicking on «buy» takes you to the bandcamp-site.
There you can specify the album price, – only a minimum price is given.
All songs performed by Al Comet with a Post-Nuclear Sitar-Guitar.
Recorded at Bocal Studio in 1999-2000.
Released 2000
Mixed at Relief Studio by Bertrand Siffert and Benoît Saillet.
Art work by Dominique Billaroch
« Cette fois la Comète se dirige vers le soleil originaire de la guitare, vers la première corde vibrant sur un vide savamment contenu. Remontant l’axe du bien: Ogoz, Andalousie, Turquie, Pakistan jusqu’à Bollywood. Avec lui, sur un Tapis d’Occident, Al porte le digital et la science des électrons, survolant des villes et des campagnes ; le réacteur gauche est la raison, le moteur droit, son intuition. Comet remplace le pétrole par de la lévitation et nous fait, encore et toujours, avancer: Dans le ciel, bras écartés, le Troisième Œil grand ouvert ! »
A collection of videos by Alain Favre and Al Comet. The project started in 1991 right after the world’s first website and server went live at CERN in Geneva, dec 20th, 1990. In other words: No digital video editing or the like but thousand of magic ways to switch visual realities.
La musique génère les images, le montage répond à l’évidence de la rythmique, l’imaginaire du créateur visuel donne un écho aux espaces sonores du musicien. Au travers de tous les procédés rendus possible par la technique, Alain (Favre) dialogue avec Alain (AI Comet).
70 pics with Mahadev Cometo, Rajaneesh Tiwari (tabla), Jean-Louis Gafner (magic) and Betrand Siffert (sound).
Indian Tour Setup 16.11.2011
With Mahadev Cometo, Jean-Louis Gafner and Betrand Siffert.
Find the guy checking electronics,
– first with his finger
– then with his tongue !
Eye- and Ear-Catching
Mahadev Cometo, Rajaneesh Tiwari, Hari Paudyal, Jean-Louis Gafner and Bertrand Siffert in a live performance at Assi Ghat, Varanasi, november 2011, playing The Beatles’ song «Tomorrow Never Knows»
Same crew, same place, Varanasi 2011:
Mahadev playing the mythical song «Lyoba» as a reminescence of his origins.
Nepal – India Tour 2014: Varanasi
« Le trafic de Varanasi » by Jean-Louis Gafner.
Sitar: Mahadev Cometo, Tablas: Rajaneesh Tiwari, Video: J.-L. Gafner
Nepal – India Tour 2014
नमस्कार – नमस्ते
Mahadev Cometo, together with Jean-Louis Gafner, magic lightshow, and Bertrand Siffer, sound.
About 100 images.
Just click on the first image, click then on the fullscreen-icon and let it go hitting first the PLAY-button.
Headliner at the Silence Festival in Kathmandhu, Nepal 2014
Playing sitar with hard rockin’ Guido Wyss, s. videos on guidowyss.com.
With Jean-Louis Gafner (visuals) and Bertrand Siffert (sound).
Some pics of the Silent Festival, s. image-gallery above.
Festival poster, check Event-List .
Oct 18, 2014
Mahadev Cometo and Guido Wyss (drum & tatoo!) attacking the Silent Festival
Guido in action – Silence Festival, Kathmandu 2014
A group of priests performing “Agni Pooja” (Worship to Fire) wherein a dedication is made to Shiva, River Ganga, the Sun, Agni (Fire), and the whole universe, – at the Dashashwamedh Ghat, Varanasi. Every evening!
India Tour 2015
Mahadev Cometo, together with J.-L. Gafner, magic lightshow, and B. Siffer, sound.
Click shows big pic
«Welcome Festival Music»
Nov 1, 2015
at the Goswami House, Varanasi
presented by the Naad Manjari Music School
The Young Gods & Sophie Hunger
Centre Culturel Suisse, 17/18 mars 2008
À l’occasion de la sortie de leur album «Unplugged», le célèbre groupe de rock industriel invite deux jeunes musiciennes suisses.
The Young Gods avec Sophie Hunger, Paris 2008
Sophie Hunger, jeune chanteuse zurichoise de 23 ans, Sophie Hunger a créé la surprise en sortant un premier album varié, affirmé, Sketches On the Sea qui allie le folk et le jazz et fait écho à Cat Power comme à Bob Dylan. [Texte CCS]
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Coding
Design & programming: Beda Künzle, 1722 Bourguillon
Concept: Mahadev Cometo & Beda Künzle
Some header pics: lieberherr.photography
Theme «Hemingway» by A. Norén, adapted by Beda Künzle
THX to Dominique Javet Շնորհակալություն – մերսի !
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