Born from the legendary Brooklyn Raga Massive (BRM) jam sessions, Quadrature steps boldly into the spotlight with Black Hole Blues, their debut album on Deko Entertainment (ADA/Warner Music Group). The quartet — sitarist/effects wizard Neel Murgai, Firebird trumpeter/effects innovator Indofunk Satish, drummer Tripp Dudley, and bassist Damon Banks — forges an electrifying musical language that fuses raga, rock, jazz, and psychedelia into something entirely its own.
Quadrature began as a fully improvised experiment, channeling Indian classical ragas through amplified, high-energy ensemble interplay. They first turned heads in Brooklyn’s open-air BRM sessions, where their spontaneous street-side sets felt like cosmic explorations unfolding in real time. In 2023, the group deepened its sound as artists-in-residence at the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center, refining arrangements without losing the raw spark that defines their identity.
Their path since has been unmistakably upward, with performances at Globalfest at Lincoln Center, the Ragas Live Festival at Pioneer Works, Joe’s Pub, Barclays Center Plaza, and more. True to their mathematically inspired name — quadrature being the area under a curve — the band inhabits the space between raga form and contemporary expression, where right angles twist into odd meters and gravity bends into black hole blues.
Reflecting on the album, Murgai notes, “My sound on sitar has evolved a lot the last few years as I electrified and got together with the like minded musicians in Quadrature. This recording documents our take on raga inspired prog rock, jazz and more.” Satish echoes the spirit of the project: “We just wanted to capture the feeling of playing together… the deep musical conversations that were happening on our live shows. And we totally captured that! We had a blast making it, and ended up creating exactly the kind of music we’d want to listen to ourselves. We hope that energy and joy translates to our listening audience.”
Black Hole Blues marks the arrival of a band that thrives on fearless creativity, rooted tradition, and a shared hunger to explore sonic extremes.
Watch “Black Hole Blues” video: https://www.quadraturemusic.com/bhbmusicvideo
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