Rik Hambra combines Classical Indian styles and instrumentation with contemporary hip-hop beats, mouth music, and a little jazz. His songs, at times, pulse with familiar tabla beats, only to be overlaid with Afro-pop. It's ultramodern music based on old classical templates and it sounds great.
What is Ethnic Fusion Sound?
In this Ultra Modern Age that we're living now, I think it's necessary to recover our past roots, in order to understand in a better way the original sources from all this amazing world music we can enjoy now.
As in the Classical music field, The Ethnic music has very deep an ancient roots; for example, Indian Music has it's origins thousands of years ago, and it's development and levels of sophistication are still healthy and alive in our time, as a matter of study and rejoice for millions of people.
The same could be said about Mideastern, Chinese, Japanese, African or Europen music styles -to name a few- as well.
In Ethnic Fusion Sound, we're trying to combine the ancient world music with the modern and digital musical sources, in an attempt to create an original sound, with the wisdom and beauty of the many different ancient roots we can find as a heritage in our days.
We are conscious of the limitations, specially regarding the impossible task of getting to know every single music style available in this world; it's absolutely impossible!
Even though, Ethnic Fusion Sound tries to look for an approach between the present and the past. The idea is not just to put together sounds, melodies, rhythms, etc. with little or no music research at all, and see what happens...
Our aim is to create an Alchemy , based on a reasonable - but always incomplete -amount of knowledge and experience, in both Ethnic and Modern music fields, with the commitment to achieve good quality material, and if possible, original too.
That's our main goal in the Ethnic Fusion Sound;
Of course it's a difficult task, but we try to do our best!
Thank you for your interest and attention.
Rik Hambra
