Rangin

I owe this review to this great duo of guitarists for some time now. I somehow got a bit lazy for writing in this blog, however this should be changed.
But let's get to the point:

Rangin are Michael Meyer and Omid Bahadori from Hannover, Germany. They met in 1998 and spent some time together in a jazz-funk band "L&B"; Michael as a drummer and Omid on electric guitars. To freshen up the band's programme they wrote together a piece for two acoustic guitars and named it Rangin. The feedback from the audiences was quite respective and the birth of a new duo was just around the corner. Shortly thereafter the jazzfunk band "L&B" broke up and Rangin was born. Only six months later they recorded their first album "Beyond acoustic expressions".
For this project and stage performances they invited some guest musicians. Since the year 2000 Rangin has performed as a duo regularly on TV program „Tachles-Talk am Runden Tisch“ in Hannover and played at the EXPO 2000 in the Africa Hall and in the Globalhouse, followed by a short concert tour in the states of Pfalz and Niedersachsen Germany. The concerts of the year 2000 were followed up by a new CD production and programme. This time „Rangin“ had an excelent CD production (Beyond Acoustic Expressions-1999) offer by Toto-Loto and received sponsoring for their second CD, "Jingle Jungle“, that came out at the beginning of 2001.

With the presentation of „Jingle Jungle“ they won the hearts of the citizens of Hannover and in that summer the group was to be heard and seen at several open air festivals: Sound Circus Open Air (Haendorf) or at the MASALA Worldbeat-Festival in Hannover.

In 2006 they published their third CD "Toma Guarana".
Their music is a colourful coctail of different styles (Latin, Flamenco, Oriental, Jazz-funk) and it is best known as a "Mediterranean crossower". Omid's mystic origins (Iran) brought into their music a special touch of the soul. Sometimes simple joy of living, sometimess sadness. Both is needed.
Thanks for the CD's, guys!