Indian Classical

What would you recommend?

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, December 24, 2022 2:19 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean he’s an absolute master so I feel like the recommendation is really whatever raags you enjoy that he has recordings of, which at this point is probably most of the main ones and some rarer ones as well…I particularly like his versions of Madhuvanti and Bhupali.

I’d check out Kushal Das’ surbahar recording of Marwa while you’re at it.

Also just rereading through some of the above but Nikhil Banerjee was definitely accompanied by tabla players, and in fact, I can’t think of any ICM musicians who play fully solo (you can’t really play the gat without it)

tabla is the best

Yes the other side of Banerjee has tabla, but first side is solo.

I am downplaying it a bit since I've never heard solo tabla records..

There have been plenty of notable percussionists. Check out Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain for example.

Listening to vocalist Kaushiki Chakraborty now

I really like this YouTube channel of Indian Classical live videos:

https://youtube.com/@darbarfestival

Nice channel and now they have an app too.

Kaushiki Chakraborty Washington Dc area gig sold out quickly. She sent me voice memo answers via What’s App for an article I was writing.

how cool is jaltarang?

been checking out this record recently since it's on spotify

https://i.imgur.com/HA3Mdlq.png

esp the track "Nagumomu - Aberi - Adi - Thyagaraja"
https://open.spotify.com/track/21QuIzIytSKIgTSb78C1kd?si=34296ab2a6a74ef5

love this wiki image:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Milind_Tulankar_with_Jaltarang.jpg