24 April 2013

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Set #1 - 8:00am - 9:00am

1. Raga Puriya Dhanashri (rec. Chennai 2005)
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt - mohan veena, Salil V. Bhatt - sathvik veena, Ramkumar Mishra - tabla
Bharat Sangeet Utsav 2005
Carnatica, CAR CD 1087
66:29

Set #2 - 9:00am - 10:00am

2. Conversations (rec. 1984)
L. Subramaniam - violin, Stéphane Grappelli - violin et al.
Milestone, MCD-9130-2
40'
(Individually they sound great, but together, they're an exemplar of how not to do a fusion album.)

Set #3 - 10:00am - 11:00am

3. Disco Bhangra: Wedding Bands from Rajasthan (rec. Jaipur, India 1989)
Disk Union, AVAN 031
33:16
(Prakash Band, Choutou Band, Village Band, Babu Band, Gulab Panjab Band, and Temple Boy.)
33'

4. Beyond Boundaries
Kiran Ahluwalia et al.
Kiran Music, KM-2003

17 April 2013

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Set #1 - 8:00am - 9:00am

1. Raga Kafi Kanara
23:47

2. Raga Kafi
26:24

Tracks 1-2
Rajeev Taranth - sarod, Uttam Chakraborty - tabla, Chad Hammill - tanpura
Raga Kafi: Some Facets
Underscore Records, 06HC020ACD

Set #2 - 9:00am - 10:00am

3. Raga Piloo
14:45

4. Raga Ananda Bhairava
15:37

5. Bela Bartok: Violin Sonata No.1 (1921)
33:13

Tracks 3-5
Ravi Shankar - sitar, Yehudi Menuhin - violin, Hephzibah Menuhin - piano
West Meets East Vol.2
Beat Goes On Records, BGOCD571

Set #3 - 10:00am - 11:00am

6. Raga Nayak ki Kanra
Buddhadev DasGupta - sarod, Anand Gopal Bandopadhyay - tabla
Raga Records, RAGA-210
68:41

10 April 2013

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Set #1 - 8:00am - 9:00am

1. Raga Miya ki Todi
30:06

2. Raga Puriya-Kalyan
29:25

Tracks 1-2
Budhaditya Mukherjee - sitar, Anindo Chatterjee - tabla
Inner Voice
Audiorec Classics, 7660332 1014-2

Set #2 - 9:00am - 10:00am

3. Laya Vinyas: The South Indian Drumming of Trichy Sankaran
Trichy Sankaran - konnakkol [voice], mrdangam [double-sided drum] & kanjira [tambourine], Karaikkuddi Subramaniam - vina, Lalitha Sankaran - tanpura, Andrew Timar - finger cymbals
Music of the World, MOW120
42'

Set #3 - 10:00am - 11:00am

4 Raga Yaman
31:57

5 Bhatiali (Boatsong of Bengal)
8:22

6 Raga Durga
15:00

7. Raga Mishra Khamaj
8:12

Tracks 4-7
Kalyani Roy - sitar, Manick Das - tabla, Namita Chatterjee - tanpura
The Virtuoso of the Sitar
Denon, 32CG-1004

03 April 2013


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Set #1 - 8:00am - 9:15am

1. Raga Bihag
43:12

2. Raga Jhinjhoti
28:51

Tracks 1-2
Amjad Ali Khan - sarod, Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari - tabla
Atma
Audiorec Classics, 766032 1004-2

Set #2 - 9:15am - 10:30am

3. Raga Gujari Todi
Daya Shankar - shehnai, Ajeet Kumar Pathak - tabla
10:20

4. Raga Bairagi
Debashish Bhattacharya - guitar, Subhasis Bhattacharjee - tabla
10:47

5. Raga Durga
Allyn Miner - sitar, Shyam Kane - tabla
9:16

6. Raga Hansadhwani
Snehasis Mazumdar - mandolin, Subhen Chatterjee - tabla
10:45

7. Raga Tappa-Khamaj
Arawind Thatte - harmonium, Ramdas Palsule - tabla
10:25

8. Raga Bageshree
Tarun Bhattacharya - santur, Abhijit Banerjee - tabla
10:11

9. Bhajan in Raga Bhairavi
Kala Ramnath - violin, Vijay Ghate - tabla
10:48

Tracks 3-9
Rainbow: Seven Colors of Seven Instruments
Neelam Audio & Video Inc., NICI 103

Set #3 - 10:30am - 11:00am

10. Raga Misra Kafi
Rajeev Taranath - sarod, Udayraj Karpur - tabla
Reflections around Noon
Audiorec Classics, 766032 1054-2
19:01