RAGINI TRIO

"one of the most exciting cross-cultural experiments in music"

The Guardian (UK)

"transcends the boundaries of Indian classical music and jazz"

Jazzwise (UK)

"Their utterly unique sound deserves to be heard by a wide audience"

NRC Handelsblad (NL)

"indefinable beauty, warm, glowing, deep, spiritual and highly elegant"

Dansende Beren (BE)

Three musicians, three worlds: raga, jazz, and their own imagination. East, West, and the fusion in between. Rhythm, melody, and harmony. Past, present, and future.

With the album 3, Ragini Trio experiences a rebirth — after years of deep exploration into long-form ragas, South Indian Carnatic traditions, konnakkol, and Western jazz.

Thirteen years after their debut, this album stands as an homage to both worlds. By refusing to play things “as they should be played,” Ragini Trio finds the in-between space — that magnetic tension where jazz and Indian classical music meet and transform each other.

Inspired by the traditional Indian trio of tabla, flute, and tanpura, Ragini offers its mirrored jazz response: drums, saxophone, and double bass. The result unites jazz, which seeks freedom within structure, with raga, which seeks structure within freedom. Far from purism or imitation, Ragini Trio crafts a living dialogue between rhythm, melody, and tone colour.

And it’s a statement. Bursting with energy, depth, and self-irony, 3 is a vibrant antidote to the algorithmic recycling of sound that floods today’s music landscape — born from the chemistry of three exceptional artists: saxophonist Nathan Daems, drummer Lander Gyselinck, and double bassist Marco Bardoscia.