Marc Collin, Tritha Sinha – Raga Dhani via Kwaidan Records

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Raga Dhani is the first track from the Acid Raga Experience project, a collaboration between Marc Collin and Trita Singh. The project draws inspiration from the pioneering work of Indian musician Charanjit Singh. In the early 1980s in Bombay, he envisioned a unique fusion of Indian classical music and early Roland analog electronic instruments.

With his now-classic album Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat (1982), Charanjit Singh created an unexpected form of electronic raga, often considered a precursor to the acid house that would emerge a few years later in Chicago.

Acid Raga Experience extends this visionary intuition by exploring the interplay between the structure of traditional ragas and the hypnotic textures of analog synthesis. In Raga Dhani, melodic motifs inspired by Indian tradition blend with repetitive electronic sequences. This fusion gives rise to a contemporary electronic raga.

The Track is both meditative and rhythmic. This project thus proposes a connection. It bridges the spiritual depth of Indian music and the aesthetics of 80s analog machines. The exploration is situated between tradition, electronics, and hypnotic trance.

Artist Bio:

Acid Raga Experience brings together Indian singer Tritha Sinha and French producer Marc Collin, co-founder of Nouvelle Vague. The project blends the tradition of ragas with analog electronic textures in a direct, repetitive, and immersive language. Inspired by Charanjit Singh and his album Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat, often considered a precursor to acid house, the duo doesn’t simply pay homage: they reactivate this intuition with today’s tools.

Tritha Sinha brings a profound mastery of raga and a vocal approach that blends improvisation and trance. Marc Collin constructs electronic structures from analog instruments, using a minimalist and cyclical logic. Together, they create a tension between tradition and machine, discipline and repetition, meditation and rhythmic energy. The album explores ten ragas reinterpreted through analog synthesis and hypnotic sequences.

The first single, “Raga Dhani,” scheduled for release on April 10th, introduces this point of convergence: music both rooted in ancient tradition and oriented towards a form of contemporary trance.