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The roots of Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra (GUO) date back to the end of the 19th Century, as the “Gáyan Uttejak Mandal”, archetype of GUO’s establisher, the “Gáyan Uttejak Society” (founded in Hungary, 1981), was operated by Navraojji Kabraji and V.N. Bhatkhande, between 1870 and 1917, in Mumbai. The Society was expanded in 1984 with the “Archive of Oriental Music”, to be considered unique and unrivalled in Eastern Europe, the “Gáyan Uttejak Studio” and the “Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra”, composed of musicians of the most diverse nationality and being the direct progenitor of the current GUO.
 
Music of GUO combines music of non-existing mythological worlds and Extra-European high music cultures with creative techniques aimed at a possible, global still virtual language of music that nevertheless differs fundamentally from the realized world music.
 
GUO’s futuristic compositions have been published by Dutch, German, American, Greek, Indian, French, British and Hungarian record companies. Besides the more than 50 published records, GUO has been recognized a lot of different awards: German Grand Prize for reinterpretation of Hungarian folk music; the Album of the Year (repeatedly) in New-Zealand; Margen Award in Spain; 19th place in the Backroads World Music chart, Octopus award in France etc.
 
In concert, the traditional Hindu-Islamic and classical Asian musical textures are performed by GUO in the original orchestration, effectuating simultaneously a live-electronic sound synthesis controlled by the traditional instruments, in complete conformity with 21st Century traditions of GUO.