Anuradha Pal - A Tabla Solo

By pktewary at 2009-08-24

Anuradha Pal

Album: A Tabla Solo
Artist: Anuradha Pal
Release Date: July 11, 2000
Label: The Orchard
Quality: 160kbps VBR LAME MP3

Tracks:

1. Vilambit Teental (25:15)
2. Jhaptal (16:48)
3. Ardha Jaitaal (10:27)
4. Drut Teental (9:37)

Anuradha Pal has been internationally acclaimed as an accomplished soloist and a versatile and sought after accompanist. A disciple of the world-renowned tabla maestros, Late Ustad Alla Rakha and Ustad Zakir Hussain, she has performed extensively in India, USA, UK, Europe, Australia, Japan and the far- east with top ranking musicians like Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pt. Jasraj, Vishwamohan Bhatt, Shahid Parvez, Smt Veena Sahasrabuddhe amongst others in prestigious festivals all over the world.

An irrepressible creativity, tremendous clarity and a fine tonal quality along with exciting rhythmic improvisations and spontaneity are the hallmarks of her style. An unremitting devotion to practice and learning have given Anuradha a meaningful identity amongst the musicians of today helping her to carve a distinct niche of her own. The prestigious Encyclopædia Britannica, the Asian-American Who’s who journal as well as the Limca Book of Records have lauded Anuradha for her contribution to music as well as her well balanced musicianship.

An A grade artist of the All India Radio, a recipient of many prestigious awards, Anuradha has several cassettes and CDs both as a tabla soloist and accompanist released both in India and abroad. An added dimension is her amazing foray into music direction and composition both in the medium of films like ‘Gaja Gamini’ as well as for commercial music albums like ‘ Shanti, Stree Shakti’.

In 1996, Anuradha formed India’s only all female percussion based instrumental and vocal fusion group called ‘ Stree Shakti’. Stree Shakti has performed extensively in India and the UK in the WOMAD Festival, Rhythm Sticks Festival, BBC Music Live Festival, Asian Music Festival, amongst others enthralling audiences not only by their amazing prowess in male dominated fields of Indian percussion but also for their well evolved interesting Hindustani–Carnatic Combination. (North and South Indian music) Their album, also titled ‘Stree Shakti’, became one of the best selling classical albums in 2001.

Anuradha was featured in the BBC Radio World Service Program as one of the ‘Five Prominent Women Musicians of India’ in 1991. She has been widely featured on ITV, Asia TV (USA), BBC world service television and radio (UK), Australian and Japanese TV - Radio channels and Indian channels like Star TV, Zee, Alpha, ETC, ETV, Doordarshan and Radio amongst others around the world. Anuradha is on the prestigious panel of artists on the Indian Council of Cultural relations. She represented India in the ‘Asian Performers Summit’ in February 1999 where she spoke on Performers rights amidst an august gathering of International Musicians in Japan.

The Films Division of India made a documentary film titled ‘Aaj ki Nari’ and featured Anuradha along with a galaxy of great women achievers in 1999. Recently, the renowned USA based Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) made a film titled ‘ Adventure Divas’ featuring Anuradha Pal as one of the great women achievers of India and the World. This film was telecast in USA in September 2001.

Anuradha did an extensive concert tour of UK in July 2002 where she presented ‘Stree Shakti’ in the World Premier in the ‘ Commonwealth Games Festival City of London festival at the Barbican Centre (London), Cardiff Jazz Festival amongst other concerts in Reading & Manchester. Here she also collaborated and composed two pieces with the Pan African Orchestra in a unique fusion titled ‘ India & Africa in Conversation’ which was a great success.

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Anuradha Pal - A Tabla Solo

Maestro's Choice - Ustad Shahid Parvez

By pktewary at 2009-08-24

Ustad Shahid Parvez


By pktewary at 2009-08-24

Ustad Shahid Parvez

Ustad Shahid Parvez hails from the famous lineage of the Etawah tradition. He was initiated into music by his father, Ustad Aziz Khan and very soon made a name for himself as a young performer. As a matter of fact, he gave his first public sitar recital at the age of eight.

Ustad Shahid Parvez received training in vocal music and tabla as well as the sitar and quickly established himself as a major attraction on the Indian Classical concert circuit.

Today he is acknowledged by stalwarts like Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan as one of the finest sitar players alive and the torch bearer for the current generation. His playing is a perfect combination of gaiyaki ang (singing style) and tantrakari ang (instrumental style). He has performed to sold out concert halls and music festivals all around the world.

Ustad Shahid Parvez teaches workshops regularly at the Sitar School of Toronto. Since the inception of the Sitar School , Ustad Shahid Parvez has returned at least three times a year. Our aim is to provide a passionate, keen and dedicated pool of students to Ustad Shahid Parvez, so that he finds teaching as much a joy as we find learning.The sessions are intense and the training is hands on. Ustad Shahid Parvez pays meticulous attention to each of his students and riyaz (practice) is given utmost importance.

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Maestro's Choice - Shahid Parvez

Tabula Rasa- Fleck, Chen & Bhatt (1994)

Album: Tabula Rasa | Year: 1994| Genre: Fusion/World | mp3@320 kbps | full scan | 119mb

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Dipali Nag - Khaas Agra Darbari

Album: Khaas Agra Darbari | Artiste: Dipali Nag | Indian Classical | Size: 179mb | mp3 @ 320kbps | full scan

Tracks:

01. Nat Behag [33:16] Link

02. Darbari Kanada [44:16] Link

Covers: Front Back

Pt. Raghunath Seth - Flute:

Artist

Raghunath Seth is the best of the mostly self-taught flutists, and is the only bansuri player whose light classical music rivals Hari Prasad. For a number of years, he was a colleague of Sachdev's early teacher Vijay Raghav Rao at the Government of India Documentary Films Division, producing and composing music for films. When Vijay Raghav Rao retired from his post as Director of the music division in 1980, Raghunath Seth was given the position and became his successor.

Like Hari Prasad, his music is a blend of many different influences. He often plays classical music in the style of the slow tintal gat favored by sitar and sarod performers, followed by a piece in fast tintal which is somewhat more similar to a chota kheyal than a true drut gat. Another musician who follows this kind of development is the famous sarangi maestro Pt. Ramnarain, with whom I was blessed to have had some lessons. Raghunath Seth has synthesized many styles into a unique presentation which does not resemble anyone else, and is characterized by excellent control of pitch, rhythm, and rag as well as a wide repertoire of diverse pieces, including such light styles as dadra, kajri, bhajan, and dhun. He is also fond of playing obscure rags in unusual scales derived from Karnatik music, often pentatonic, as does Vijay Raghav Rao.

Raghunath Seth uses a bamboo key to play the seventh hole of his medium-bore flutes. He also uses two different seventh holes, one tuned to Shuddha Ma, the other to Tivra Ma, and fills the unused one with beeswax according to the rag. The set-up of this key is very funky, and typical of an Indian village gizmo, the kind of thing that reminds you of days gone by. The extra seventh hole slightly changes the tuning of the third octave for the worse, and while he uses the third octave, he does not do so as extensively as Sachdev or Panna Lal Ghosh.

In his youth, Raghunath Seth met Panna Lal Ghosh, from whom he received more encouragement and advice than lessons. He clearly was influenced by Panna Lal, and this influence is visible in his music today, as he uses these seventh holes, and the third octave of notes, following the example of the pioneer in his own way. This is notable in contrast to so many of the current generation who have ignored the legacy of Panna Lal, even his own grandson.

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