TAG
Tag (tàg) (Tradition Avant Garde)
Born from the Underground and founded by Mad Sheer Khan, the Tag is a music transposing traditional instruments from one country to the culture of another. Translating the idea of a migration, integrating its environement but respecting its original form. So, reversing the pôles of notions and in opposition to samplers, the machines and there electronic world are drived by acoustic instruments. The Tag movement is the expression of an immigration with no complexes using their traditional instruments to drive the last electro tools. An acoustic tradition expressing itself with the electro culture trough the window of its origins.
+ 1/4 ton Synth Guitar
+ Electric saz
+ Electric ud
+ Dobro Sitar
+ Sitar Guitar
+ Dilruba
+ Esraj
1/4 ton
Synth Guitar (1980) :
Based on a GR500 Roland (first synth guitar). The neck have being rebuild in brass by Jacobacci in 1980. The fingerboard have been 1/4 ton refretted and the body recut in waterdrop form, conserving the japonese electronics of Roland (6 strings)
Electric saz / (1986) :
Made of balsa wood, neck and plain body.The saz is equiped with two hand made mics.The fingerboard stay classic. (3 double strings)
Electric ud
(1988 - stoled in 1992) :
Based on a Gibson, made with a fretless fingerboard and recut in a waterdrop form. The instrument is equiped whith american electronics. The table have been decorated with a patchwork of indian sylk and varnished. (6 double strings)
Dobro Sitar (1996) :
Creation of Mad Sheer Khan made by Philippe Dubreuille. This instrument is a combination of a Dobro resonator and a Sitar bridge which allowed the indi buzz vibration. Seven sympathetics strings give a value to the harmonics resonance. (7 strings)
Sitar Guitar (1997) :
Philippe Dubreille creation for Mad Sheer Khan. This instrument is equiped with 24 sympathetics string on the back. 6 strings + 3 bass up on the neck.
Dilruba :
This North Indian violin is combining the sarangi and the sitar. Created 300 years ago by a Princess demand who would like to play the sarangi without hurting her fingers (sarangi players have the skin by the neals or the neals, depending of the technic theys used, mutilated by the pracice of there instrument) Dilruba means the sound of the hart. (24 strings)
Esraj :
Similar as the dilruba with a different bodyshape and less strings (20 strings)
