New Raga: Raga Shahana
Created a page with some videos to discuss the beautiful and stately raga Shahana : The majesty of Shahana
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New Raga: Nayaki Kanada
As part of my slow progress in capturing material on ragas not available elsewhere, I’ve just added a section on the somewhat rare raga Nayaki Kanada This post is dedicated to the memory of sarod maestro Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta who passed away recently. Gopal Nayak’s Kanada – Raga Nayaki Kanada
Patdeep- an afternoon poem
I recently performed the sweet melodiic raga Patdeep (Patdip) at a concert in Brisbane. A beautiful afternoon raga, it reminded me of many poems and musical compositions in this lesser heard raga Often considered a “smaller” or “limited” raga, Patdeep is never the less a beautiful haunting melody worthy of detailed exploration. So here is a page on this raga Patdeep- an afternoon poem
Jugalbandi
I performed with Nicolas Buff (Saxophone) and Pandurang Torvi (tabla) at the Temple in Melbourne. We played Raga Gorakh Kalyan in Jhaptaal (10 beats) and Teentaal (16 beats) We had no time to meet and practice, so resorted to sending each other sound clippings recorded on the phone ! The composition below is originally from sarod maestro Pandit Buddhadeb Dasgupta as communicated by his senior …
New compositions: the art of mulling over things
At a recent concert by a visiting vocalist (Shri Kuljit Singh Sangar), he sang a fast 16 beat composition in Bageshri. I heard it and then went about my own business, but the composition stayed with me mentally. A few days later, I was able to take the gist of the composition and translate it to the sarod. I initially thought I’d come up with …
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Added new material on raga Kaunsi Kanada
Continuing the series on this magnificent raga.. some compositional material from a lesson with students… a slow 16 beat (vilambit teentaal) composition in Raga Kaunsi Kanada
Excerpts from a recent concert
First post for 2016… have been away for some time .. Here’s a post from a recent concert….raw audio/video… The setting was in a private residence in a beautiful part of Melbourne called Eltham… and it had a resident peacock which kept calling out at times.. I have added some description of the content sequence in the Youtube video notes…
Meeting with Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan
Recently, I had the opportunity to catch up with Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan on his recent Australian visit. Here is a picture of us together. We had a good exchange of thoughts and ideas and tips for practice..
Sound Production on the Sarod: Some Perspectives
I recently had the opportunity to discuss sound production as a subject with senior indian classical instrumentalists. Discussion on sound production in the context of Indian Classical music has been very limited – Indian classical music discussion seems to be limited to unstructured discussions with very little “shop talk” among the musical fraternity on any operational issue that they face. For an active musician, sound production …
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Published page on Raga Nand Kalyan
I’ve got the Kalyan work off and running by discussing in brief, the wonderful raga Nand Kalyan…also known simply by its shorter name, Nand, or Anandi…. Raga Nand Kalyan (also known as Anandi or Nand)