sounds of India
Yesterday he sang at the University of Chicago (Logan Center), accompanied by violin, drums (mridangam), and drone instrument (tamboura). He performed for more than two hours without intermission. He sang not a word of English. Sailing these unfamiliar seas was, for me, heavenly.
TM Krishna (vocals) featuring Vikku Vinayakram (ghatam), Raga Begada, live, India (Mumbai), 2018
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Nina Burmi (vocals), Ramesh Mishra (sarangi), Sanju Sahai (tabla), live, London, 2006
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reading table
Who never lost, are unprepared
A Coronet to find!—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 136 (Franklin)
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Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938-, bansuri), Raag Hansadhwani, live
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reading table
I’m not lonely
because I have secrets;I’m lonely because words
can’t bring the past into the present(which amounts to the same thing).
—Rae Armantrout, from “Pretty Little” (London Review of Books, 7/19/18)
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Nikhil Banerjee (1931-1986, sitar), Zakir Hussain (1951-, tabla), live (Raag Shyam Kedar, Raag Pilu), San Francisco, 1985
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of all over
Kiran Ahluwalia, Souad Massi, live (studio), Seattle, 2018
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Nikhil Banerjee (1931-1986), sitar (with Zakir Hussain [1951-; tabla], et al.), Raag Shyam Kedar, Raag Pilu, live, San Francisco, 1985
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That Which Colors the Mind (documentary on sitarist Nikhil Banerjee, 1931-1986; work in progress), excerpt
After all the holiday bustle, how about something that begins slowly, quietly?
Nikhil Banerjee (1931-1986), sitar (with Zakir Hussain [1951-; tabla], et al.), Raag Shyam Kedar, Raag Pilu, live, San Francisco, 1985
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Agnes Martin (1912-2004), Untitled #12 (detail), 1977
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Nikhil Banerjee (1931-1986), sitar, Raag Darbari (Alap), Raag Hemant (Gat), live (Dover Lane Music Conference), India (Kolkata), 1986
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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I don’t understand a single word. No matter. Rapport, spontaneity, immediacy—these I grasp.
Bhimsen Joshi (right) & Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna (left)
Rag Yaman Kalyan, live
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random sights
other day, New York (Central Park)
