Golden Strings of the Sarode, by Aashish Khan, Zakir Hussain

Golden Strings of the Sarode

by Aashish Khan, Zakir Hussain

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	1.	Raag Lalita Gouri Alaap 14:18
	2.	Raag Bhimpalashree Gat in Jhaptal 21:14
	3.	Raag Mishra Bhairavi Gat in Dadra 21:24

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Grammy-nominated “Golden Strings of the Sarode” with eminent sarodist Aashish Khan and tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, is a co-production with Meyer Sound, recorded in a church in Berkeley, California. Here Aashish Khan pays tribute to his training with his grandfather, the legendary genius Baba Allaudin Khan, The artist here holds forth with both popular and rare ragas and allows us a view into his experience, imagination and tradition with his descriptive liner notes.

"For this intimate yet scintillating, Grammy-nominated duet, Aashish Khan, son of the legendary Ali Akbar Khan and a brilliant sarode virtuoso, is heard with percussionist, producer, and composer Zakir Hussain, who has not only taken his ancestral tabla drums into the 21st century, but is a noted classicist with an impressive pedigree of his own. His famous father, Ustad Alla Rakha, working with sitar master Ravi Shankar, was largely responsible for bringing Indian classical music to Western ears during the 1960s. Together, the two younger men explore and expand the perimeters of their respective instruments. Invented in the 17th century, the fearsomely demanding sarode (sarod-dhayak-vina in sanskrit) is made of teak wood with a fretless steel fingerboard, resonating goat skin belly, and 25 metal strings variously employed for drone, rhythm, and melody. The term tabla actually refers to a pair of drums; the smaller dayan is played with the right hand while the larger bayan is played with the left. The three raags that make up the recital are, as is typical of this type of music, are associated with different times of day. Bhimpalashri, meant for the afternoon, is gently but not passively melancholy. Lalita Gouri captures the lingering fires of sunset, while Bhairavi is redolent of fragrant night shadows, romantic longing, and the eternal feminine". --Christina Roden

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released January 1, 2005

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Moment Records California

Moment! Records was founded in 1991 by by tabla maestro and world music legend Zakir Hussain with a mission to record and present great moments from performances of the classical music of India and contemporary world music. We are proud of a catalog which includes audiophile-quality concert recordings of the great contemporary classical masters of India, ... more