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P R E S S
• SAITENKULT
If anyone is looking for the most adventurous singer-songwriter of the season, he or she will find him or her in Harry Payuta and Friends.

The singer, guitarist and world-renowned sitar player has teamed up with bassist/singer Ralf Marckardt and drummer Jens Kolweih to once again combine the energy and authenticity of world music with a singer-songwriter's mentality to kindle fiery.
Payuta either focuses on the guitar or the sitar or lets both have their say in musical passion. 21 songs, a fire blazes for more than 77 minutes that only HARRY PAYUTA & FRIENDS can ignite.

• ROCKBLOG-BLUESSPOT
The result literally electrified me! The songs shine in competition - catchy hooks and warmth in abundance.
In any case, after a stressful day, they bring me down relaxed with a smile on my face. You can not ask for more! All 21 tracks are one listen-through orgasm.   (Heinz W. Arndt)

• ECLIPSED
At 77 minutes, the album is an opulent affair with which Payuta confirms the sitar as a rock-compatible string instrument. Completely relaxed, Harry Payuta & Friends glide through 21 songs between Westcoast atmosphere, semi-world rock and singer/sonwriter, with the rock component clearly predominating.
BLACK MATCH sounds like a globetrotter's album, which is true, as the original songs were recorded in Germany, El Salvador and Spain.

• GOOD TIMES
The titles, held in the traditional song format, seem to be cast in one piece, are multifaceted and varied, so that you can easily listen to the album with pleasure.

• MUSIC MAGAZIN
In any case, Harry Payuta makes you sit up and take notice and his music won't let go of the listener so quickly. Unusual as bold, interesting and innovative.

• GÄSTELISTE.de
Nobody has more competently integrated the sitar into western music.

• MUSIC REVIEWS
Harry Payuta's voice has a pleasant tone, soft and fragile with an underlying 'hoarseness'.
» Mainly it rocks! «

An exciting mixture of overarching musical styles.
Sometimes Far Eastern melodies burn brightly, the Trio rarely closes their eyes and surrenders completely to the instrumental fever. In general, the acoustic or electric guitar paves the way for the compositions, before the Sitar takes the spotlight for charm and the vitally special.

(Review: SAITENKULT - 2022)

A L B U M S



B I O G R A P H Y
Harry Payuta has come a long way from his first rock band in the mid-70s to his current album ''WAKING UP IN A DREAM'' from 2025.
In addition to his own diverse projects, he has also participated in numerous other avant-garde and world music projects as a guitarist, bassist, sitarist, and singer. However, he has never lost sight of his musical roots of rock and blues.
After many years of purely instrumental music, songwriting has returned to the forefront since 2013.

C O O P E R A T I O N S

1. THE ELECTRIC FAMILY     2. THE ELECTRIC FAMILY     3. BELLA DONNA     4. THE ELECTRIC FAMILY     5. SUN TEMPLE CIRUS     6. THE FURIOUS SWAMPRIDERS     7. SECOND SKY     8. HUUN-HUUR-TUU     9. DEEP TALK     10. EARTRANCEPORT     11. THE ELECTRIC FAMILY     12. THE PERC MEETS THE HIDDEN GENTLEMAN


PROJECTS:
• With members of EMBRYO + AMON DÜÜL the Ethno-Trance-Jazz Project EAR-TRANCEPORT with musicians from Mali and Morocco. CD production and tours through Germany and Spain,

• Production of the album DEEP TALK with GROBSCHNITT keyboarder Volker Kahrs,

• MOJO-CLUB (Hamburg) tour through Germany and Switzerland, followed by various Goa-Techno-Trance projects,

• Cooperation with HUUN HUUR TU from Tuva. Harry Payuta is represented with edited titles on the remix CD ''Spirits from Tuva'', which involved international teams from Paris to Moscow,

• Sitar contribution in the Indian video and CD production ''Gayatri Mantra'' with the Indian pop singer RAVEENA,

• long-term cooperation as a sitarist with SECOND SKY, a dub and trip hop project from Pennsylvania/USA,

• since the early 90s member of the psychedelic rock project THE ELECTRIC FAMILY with Tom ''The Perc'' Redecker,

• since 2000 own band project HARRY PAYUTA & FRIENDS. Production of 12 albums with various line-ups in their own studio and numerous concerts.

• 2007 to 2013 residence in El Salvador and production of 2 albums with salvadorean musicians. Payuta was real exotic with the sitar, which was almost unknown there. He gave concerts in almost all theaters and concert halls as well as in the entire club scene in El Salvador. He was also often a guest on radio programs and television shows.

• From 2013 to 2015 he lived in Spain. The album SWEET GLOOM was created there with the Cuban musician Denis Ilizastiqui.

• Since 2015 Payuta is active again in Germany with his trio HARRY PAYUTA & FRIENDS.
His 13th album WAKING UP IN DREAM is released in March 2025.

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