About


Born in Frankfurt in 1985, Max Clouth studied Jazz guitar in Germany and then went to India to learn Hindustani music from Pandit Nayan Ghosh. The double-necked guitars he developed with guitar maker Philipp Neumann are based on oriental and Indian stringed instruments such as the oud or sarod. With his group Ragawerk/Max Clouth Clan, he has developed a musical style inspired by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Kraftwerk, Led Zeppelin, Indian classical music and contemporary electronics.

Max composes for film and television, including music for “Freibadsinfonie / Blue Summer Symphony” (director: Sinje Köhler, nomin ated for the Student Oscar), “Der lange Weg der Sinti und Roma” (ARD, 2022 – director: Adrian Oeser) and most recently “Das Leben ist kein Kindergarten” (ARD, 2023 – director: Sinje Köhler). A recipient of the Frankfurt Jazz Scholarship, Max has been teaching jazz guitar and ensemble at the FMW Frankfurter Musikwerkstatt since 2022.

“Max’s masterful yet restrained modern Flamenco guitar is set against lush electronic & cinematic elements. This is music that realistically embraces a vision of complex hope in a bright tomorrow shaped by its shadows.” Vernon Reid, Living Colour

“Clouth, who is trained in Indian classical, aptly lays over fretwork that oscillates between sitar-like melodies and jazz progressions on a double-neck guitar.” Anurag Tagat, Rolling Stone India

“The production is epic and left me looking for concert dates in the UK.” BBC Music Magazine

“Der Frankfurter Jazz-Musiker Max Clouth gilt als zeitgenössisches Paradebeispiel für die Verbindung von indischer Musik, deutschem Elektro und Jazz.” Lukas Lautenbacher, GUITAR

Concerts

2025

Jan 10 w/ Georg Boeßner Vier – DAZZ Festival – Darmstadt, Germany

Feb 13 w/ Çağla Gürsoy – Saarbrücken, Germany

Feb 27 w/ Vroni Frisch & Ishaan Ghosh – lecture performance @ TSM – Karjat, India

Feb 28 w/ Vroni Frisch & Ishaan Ghosh – NMACC – Mumbai, India

Mar 1 w/ Vroni Frisch & Ishaan Ghosh – Windmills Craftworks – Bengaluru, India

Mar 2 w/ Vroni Frisch & Ishaan Ghosh – Windmills Craftworks – Bengaluru, India

Mar 14 w/ Luis Gallo – rebabel – San Lorenzo de Escorial, Spain

Mar 15 w/ Luis Gallo – Centro Cultural Nicolas Salmeron – Chamartin, Spain

Mar 21 w/ Luis Gallo – Club Bastion – Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany

Mar 22 w/ Luis Gallo – Jazzhaus – Heidelberg, Germany

Mar 23 w/ Luis Gallo – Das Rind – Rüsselsheim, Germany

Mar 26 w/ Çağla Gürsoy – Rudolf Steiner Haus – Frankfurt, Germany

Mar 27 w/ Luis Gallo – Haus der Musik – Dossenheim, Germany

Mar 29 w/ Luis Gallo, Falk Zenker, Lulo Reinhardt – Uni im Bauernhaus – Goßberg, Germany

Mar 30 w/ Luis Gallo, Falk Zenker, Lulo Reinhardt – Depot 15/7 – Eberbach, Germany

Apr 4 w/ Luis Gallo, Thomas Langer – Maximal Jazz Night – Rodgau, Germany

Apr 5 w/ Luis Gallo – Kasinogesellschaft – Neckarbischofsheim, Germany

Apr 24 Caligari Preisverleihung – Ludwigsburg, Germany

May 7 – FMX – Stuttgart, Germany

June 7 w/ Ragawerk – Muddy’s Club – Weinheim, Germany

June 13 – Max Clouth’s 4.0 – Brotfabrik, Frankfurt

June 19 – w/ Maik Wahab – Lesung – Netzwerk Seilerei – Frankfurt, Germany

June 20 & 21 – w/ Wesley G, Alisa Pou Montz, Oli Rubow – Jazzhaus – Heidelberg, Germany

Aug 10 – w/ Ragawerk – KOMMZ Festival, Aschaffenburg, Germany

Oct 3 w/ Luis Gallo – Rüngsdorfer KulturBad – Bonn, Germany

Oct 4 w/ Luis Gallo – Jazz We Can – Bad Marienberg, Germany

Oct 5 w/ Luis Gallo – Kirchberg-Konzerte – Lollar, Germany

Nov 6 w/ Ragawerk – Jazztage – Ingolstadt Germany

Nov 8 w/ Khadim Seck & Tony Clark – Weltklang-Festival – Katzenelnbogen, Germany

Nov 13 w/ Ragawerk – Armer Konrad – Weinstadt, Germany

Nov 14 w/ Ragawerk – Neuer Landweg – Bolanden, Germany

Nov 15 w/ Ragawerk – Schlachthof – Kassel, Germany

Music

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Shop

Entelecheia – CD

16,00

Ragawerk – CD/Vinyl

16,00 / 22,00 €

Lucifer Drowning in a Sea of Light – CD/Vinyl

16,00 / 22,00 €

Return Flight – CD

15,00 €

Studio Konzert – Vinyl

30,00 €

Kamaloka – CD

15,00 €

Guitar – CD

15,00 €

Alternatively, please write an email including your address and the CD/Vinyl you would like to purchase: booking@maxclouth.com

Contact

Booking Max Clouth
maxclouth@gmail.com

Booking Entelecheia, Ragawerk
info@o-tonemusic.de

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