Too much beauty in your life? Well, I guess you can skip this. Shivkumar Sharma, santoor Hariprasad Chaurasia, bansuri (bamboo flute) Raga Bhoopali, live, India (Mumbai), 1995 (music begins at 3:55) More Pandit Sharma? Here. More Pandit Chaurasia? Here. ********** lagniappe reading table Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving [...]
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Thursday, 3/15/12
03/15/2012Saturday, 8/6/11
08/05/2011sounds of India (an occasional series) All knotted up? You’ve come to the right place. Nikhil Banerjee (1931-1986), sitar Live, Raag Malkauns (excerpt) The best way to listen to this? Here’s what I suggest: somewhere out of the way, headphones, eyes closed. At the end you’ll be a different person than you were at the [...]
Thursday, 4/14/11
04/14/2011If all the music in the world were an ocean, what I’ve heard might fill a thimble. Nikhil Banerjee, sitar, October 14, 1931-January 27, 1986 Raga Gara, live (TV broadcast) ***** Raga Hemant, live, Amsterdam, 1970 (Raga Records 1994) More? Here. And here.
Wednesday, 1/26/11
01/26/2011Sometimes you don’t know you have a thirst until you hear a musician who quenches it. Nikhil Banerjee (sitar), October 14, 1931-January 27, 1986 Raag Maluha Kaylan (excerpts), live (with Anindo Chatterjee, tabla) Part 1 *** Part 2 *** Part 3 *** Part 4 Want more? Here. ********** lagniappe radio gems: Indian music Raag Aur [...]
Tuesday, 4/27/10
04/27/2010Indian Music Festival, part 4 This instrument, in this man’s hands, makes some of the most haunting sounds I’ve ever heard. Hariprasad Chaurasia, bansuri (bamboo flute), with Zakir Hussain, tabla, Raga Chandrakauns, live, India (Pune), 1992 ***** lagniappe Want more Indian music? part 1: Ali Akbar Khan, sarod part 2: Nikhil Banerjee, sitar, with Zakir [...]
