GET UP! GET UP! AND STOP SHOUTING! Four meditative morning ragas on your breakfast tray.

Set #1 - 8:00am - 10:00am

1. Raga Lalit (rec. 1987)
Ram Narayan - sarangi, Suresh Talwalkar - tabla, Neil Sorrell & Elizabeth Haddon - tanpuras
Nimbus Records, NI 5183
73:43
(Scale: C Db E F F# Ab B. Play time: Before sunrise. The "odd", scrunched-together intervals suggest instability in the natural world at the transition between night and day.)

2. Raga Ahir Bhairav (rec. 1991)
Kishori Amonkar - voice, Sultan Khan - sarangi, Balkrishna Iyer - tabla
Music Today, CD A-91006
30:00
(Scale: C Db E F G A Bb. Play time: Daybreak.)

Set #2 - 10:00am - 11:00am

3. Firaq Gorakpuri & Vithal Rao: Shaam-e-gham [Evening of Solitude] (rec. 2000)
Kiran Ahluwalia - voice
Kashish/Attraction: Ghazals & Punjabi Folk Songs
Kiran Music, KM-2001
8:01
(How is this possible? A song called Evening of Solitude based on the early morning raga Ahir Bhairav?)

4. Raga Komal Rishabh Asawari
Santanu Banerjee - voice, Gauri Shankar Karmakar - tabla
Bliss: North Indian Classical Vocal
Rageshree Music Institute, CD RMI 110
38:55
(AKA just plain Asavari. Scale: our old friend, the Phrygian mode, C Db Eb F G Ab Bb. This raga skips Eb and Bb in ascending melodies. Play time: Late morning.)

5. Raga Vibhas (rec. 1980)
Ashwin Batish - sitar, S. D. Batish - tabla
Morning Meditation
Batish Records, BR4001CD
16:02
(AKA Bibhas. Scale: C Db E G Ab. Play time: Daybreak.)