to THE ROUGH GUIDE THE ROUGH MUSICROUGHGUIDES Music Indian Classical India’s classical music is deeply bound to lute-like instrument played with a plectrum. upon its vast and complex nature, describing music – when two soloists of equal skill the country’s mystical ancient traditions. Uppalapu Srinivas’ song ‘Sankari Sankuru’ is it as a ‘scientific, precise, subtle and aesthetic perform together. Riverboat Records artist Stretching back through time to the Vedic played on his mandolin in saveri raga, which melodic form’. Another sitar scholar, Vilayat Jyotsna Srikanth contributes ‘Annapoorne’, period, musical historians encounter the is said to bring about the mood of pity and was Khan is heard on ‘Dhun Punjabi Ang’. The a work crafted by the famous Carnatic Rigveda, an ancient collection of Sanskrit originally composed by one of Carnatic (South Khan musical lineage traces all the way back composer, Muttuswami Dikshitar. The subject hymns, and the Sama Veda, a text which Indian) music’s greatest figures Syama Sastri. to the court musicians of the Mughal Empire. matter concerns Annapoorne, the Hindu begins to discuss the origin of seven shruti Indian Classical Legends Shivkumar Sharma, Father and son duo Allah Rakha and Zakir goddess of nourishment. The raga used is (notes) from the sounds of nature. The sama, one that denotes peace. practice of combining tones in certain Hari Prasad Chaurasia and Brij Bhushan Hussain enter into percussive playoff on the sequences and the notation system that Kabra are heard delicately delivering a live track ‘Ek Taal’. Tabla virtuouso Zakir Uncover the mystery and beauty of India’s was developed during this era is connected Hindustani bhairav raga on ‘Ahir Bhairav’. This Hussain remains grounded by the musical verdant classical tradition on this excellent raga is related to Sikh tradition from northern discipline and natural flair he inherited to the development of the Indian classical introduction to one of the world’s most India and appears in the Guru Granth Sahib from his father who he regarded as ‘a spirit raga form. ‘Raga’ literally translates as a valuable musical repertoires. ‘hue’ of colour and is a musical method of (the central religious text of Sikhism). Ravi who was created to work for music by God’. constructing melody through prescribed Shankar’s radiant sitar shines bright on Carnatic vocalist Dr M. Balamuralikrishna’s This album is perfectly complemented by conventions. Ragas are linked to different the fast-paced track ‘Devgiri Bilawal Dhun’. marvellously melodic instrument sparkles on the bonus disc by Pandit (master) Debashish moods and times of the day. Amjad Ali Khan’s Shankar’s name and ascendant international ‘Sadhathava Pada’. His formidable range and Bhattacharya, one of the world’s most ‘Raga Chhaya Nat’ is in the Hindustani (North career is now synonymous with Indian versatile tone mark him out as a legendary remarkable Indian classical slide-guitarists. Indian) chhayanat mode and illuminates his classical music. Widely regarded as a musical singer. He is also credited with popularising crystalline prowess on the sarod, a stringed sage or pandit, his definition of raga touched the jugulbandi concept in Indian classical
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02 RAVI SHANKAR Devgiri Bilawal Dhun 07 U. SRINIVAS Sankari Sankuru from the album MUSICAL AMBASSADOR OF from the album U SRINIVAS - JANAKI RAMANA INDIA (CDPSLP5199) - MANDOLIN (trad) pub Copyright Control. Licensed from (trad) pub Copyright Control. Licensed from Saregama. Saregama.
03 ALLAH RAKHA & ZAKIR HUSSAIN Ek Taal 08 VILAYAT KHAN Dhun Punjabi Ang (Live) from the album USTAD ZAKIR HUSSAIN & THE from the album THE MAGIC OF INDIAN MAESTROS (CDNF150275) CLASSICAL MUSIC – TABLA (CDNF350007/08) (trad) pub Copyright Control. Licensed from (trad) pub Copyright Control. Licensed from Saregama. Saregama. 09 AMJAD ALI KHAN Raga Chhaya Nat 04 DR M. BALAMURALIKRISHNA Sadhathava from the album MY INSPIRATIONS (NRCD0206/7) Pada (Ustad Amjad Ali Khan) pub Navras Records. from the album DR M. BALAMURALIKRISHNA Licensed from Navras Records. SARAGUNA (trad) pub Copyright Control. Licensed from Saregama.
05 SHIVKUMAR SHARMA, HARI PRASAD CHAURASIA & BRIJ BHUSHAN KABRA Ahir Bhairav from the album CALL OF THE VALLEY (CDNF 150008) (trad) pub Copyright Control. Licensed from Saregama.
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