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Artist
Rageous Gratoons
12+ albums
frenchjazzbalkanfolkplvert-decouvertes
about
Rageous Gratoons have been trailing around their musicality, their originality and their activism, throughout live performances and albums for 10 years. 10 years that Rageous Gratoons have followed their own way. 10 years that their music has been ceaselessly evolving throughout time, encounters, travels and causes to fight for. Because of their strong feeling of concern, the band members fight for and try to raise public awareness of social issues. Accomplished musicians, they also join in other bands such as “ASPO” which returns to the roots of Jamaican ska and the “Compagnie Mohein” that reinterprets traditional music from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. Because of this diverse background, in 2001, when their 3rd album was released, no one was surprised by the incredible variety of their music. As Romanian sounds took deeper roots in their music at the dawn of the new millennium, they have added traditional instruments and musical influences from other Eastern European countries to highlight their rebirth. Soberly entitled “Rageous Gratoons”, the album sounded very close to human kind, reflecting emotions and convictions, such as ethnical fusion, the celebration of people, cultures and Earth. In 2005, with “Risipit Totul” (All consumed), the musical disorientation is still actual and upholds the militancy of the band, this time hand in hand with the anti-nuclear organization “Sortir du Nucléaire”. This is a full-out concept as the use of images such as the cover of t
