3/29/09

The Prayer

Andrea Bocelli & Heather Headley live on stage in Tuscany, Italy- The Prayer



I pray you'll be our eyes, and watch us where we go.
And help us to be wise in times when we don't know.
Let this be our prayer, as we go our way.
Lead us to a place, guide us with your grace
To a place where we'll be safe.

3/23/09

Alms for shanti


It's a project of the indian sound in conjunction with contemporary styles and was created to take the sound further, as far as it goes, amalgamating traditional indian melodies, textures and rhythms with western sounds and applications, a culmination of sorts of our collaborations with some of india's finest classical musicians over the past few years.
Band members: Uday Benegal (vocals) and Jayesh Gandhi (guitars), Naren Budhakar (tabla), Gaku Takanashi (bass)


Indian Ocean


Indian Ocean,the fusion music band from India, is the one of bands who mixes Indian Classical with Rock, Jazz, Indian shlokas and Sufi Music. The members – Susmit Sen, Asheem Chakravarty, Rahul Ram and Amit Kilam.
The fusion music group of ‘self taught’ musicians said they believe in learning through experiences and experiments. “It is easier for us to break the rules!,” they expressed in unison.

Kandisa Aalaha, Kandisa Esana,
Aalam, Aalam, Aalam.
Aamen, Aamen, Aamen.
Sliha mar Yosef, Almadbaha Kudisaha,
Angene Dhanusa, Nyahave Dukharana.
Kandisa Aalaha, Kandisa Esana,
Kandisa la mayo sa, Ezraha ma 'layn.

3/15/09

Deepak Ram


Senior disciple of world-renowned bansuri maestro Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia.
Deepak is an incredibly versatile artist who is well known for his evocative performances in traditional North Indian Classical Music, his collaborations with musicians of other genres, his innovative compositions and for his excellence as a teacher.

Shastriya Syndicate

This inspired band is set to win the hearts of established listeners and a new world music audience with its heady mix of absolutely authentic Indian classical music presented in an exciting format.
The Musicians:
Purbayan Chatterjee, Sitar; Veenai Jayanthi, Veena; Subhankar Banerjee, Tabla; Rakesh Chaurasia, Bamboo Flute; Murad Ali, Sarangi; Pramath Kiran, Percussion;Satish Patri, Mridangam

3/13/09

Praise to rain


Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain by Conrad Aiken

Beloved, let us once more praise the rain.
Let us discover some new alphabet,
For this, the often praised; and be ourselves,
The rain, the chickweed, and the burdock leaf,
The green-white privet flower, the spotted stone,
And all that welcomes the rain; the sparrow too,—
Who watches with a hard eye from seclusion,
Beneath the elm-tree bough, till rain is done.
There is an oriole who, upside down,
Hangs at his nest, and flicks an orange wing,—
Under a tree as dead and still as lead;
There is a single leaf, in all this heaven
Of leaves, which rain has loosened from its twig:
The stem breaks, and it falls, but it is caught
Upon a sister leaf, and thus she hangs;
There is an acorn cup, beside a mushroom
Which catches three drops from the stooping cloud.
The timid bee goes back to the hive; the fly
Under the broad leaf of the hollyhock
Perpends stupid with cold; the raindark snail
Surveys the wet world from a watery stone...
And still the syllables of water whisper:
The wheel of cloud whirs slowly: while we wait
In the dark room; and in your heart I find
One silver raindrop,—on a hawthorn leaf,—
Orion in a cobweb, and the World.






3/6/09

I've Just Seen A Face


A song from movie "Across The Universe". Lennon / McCartney - I've Just Seen A Face

Blue Monk


Watanabe Sadao, Autin Peralta, Uehara Hiromi, Chick Corea and The Great Jazz Trio:

Hilary Hahn


Hilary Hahn (born 1979) is an American Grammy-winning violinist.
A documentary showing the recording of Hilary Hahn's debut album.

Allegro


Nigel Kennedy playing Concerto for Violin and Oboe (BWV 1060) - Allegro by Johann Sebastian Bach with Irish Chamber Orchestra. Oboe: Aisling Casey.

3/4/09

Improvisation)

Richard Bona! et Bobby Mc Ferrin!:

Over the Rainbow



Keith Jarrett - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Shen Yun


The Divine Performing Arts Spectacular is dedicated to exploring and rediscovering the essence of the true, traditional Chinese culture. Thus, it creates and performs pieces that center primarily on classical themes and divinely-inspired culture.

Una furtiva Lagrima.

Una furtiva Lagrima. Donizetti-Pavarotti:

Indialucia


Around the Ninth Century, for some unknown reasons, thousands of inhabitants of the north-western part of India began to emigrate west.After many years, in the beginning of the 19th Century, due to mutual influences and the mingling of all these elements, a mysterious and expressive type of music emerged. Today we know it as Flamenco.
The musical tradition of India, which in spite of its long existence has never developed those elements, typical of European music, generated extremely complicated rhythms and hundreds of scales unknown to the musicians from Europe.
The musicians from Poland, Spain and India fusing flamenco and Indian classical together takes the statement to a whole new level - a phenomenal musical entity which goes by the name of Indialucia.



In the present form of flamenco dance we can trace certain similarities to the kathak style from the north of India. The elements that resemble the dance of Andalusian Gypsies are the movements of arms, palms and fingers as well as tapping, typical for this kind of dance.

Zambra



The Zambra, also known as the Zambra Mora is a flamenco dance performed by the Roma people (Gitanos) of Granada which is believed to have evolved from earlier Moorish dances and has some similarities to belly dancing. In Maghrebi Arabic spoken in Morocco, "zambra" means party. The Zambra dance forms part of the wedding ceremonies at Gitano weddings, and gypsies perform it for tourists in the Andalucian Sacromonte Caves and Hills. It was outlawed at one time in history and became known as the "Forbidden Dance".



3/1/09

Surashri Kesarbai Kerkar

In 1977, the year she passed away, Kesarbai Kerkar’s unforgettable rendition of raga Bhairavi, “Jaat kahan ho”, literally reached the celestial heights. This happened not because of her divine vocal talent (Tagore had conferred on her the title, “Surashri”, after an earth-shattering performance in Calcutta), and turned out to be a different kind of apotheosis. In fact, it was the Voyager spacecraft that carried her recorded voice to outer space, along with a selection of several other immortal melodies.



Hindustani vocalist Surashri Kesarbai Kerkar (1892 – 1977) is considered one of the finest and most powerful Indian classical singers of the 20th century.

Rudrakshya


Rudrakshya is the Odissi Dance troupe and lineage in Bhubaneshwar, India.
“To witness a performance of Odissi Dance is to enter the place where heaven and earth touch, where the sensual and the spiritual are one in the depths of the human heart.”

Dance of the Desert by Kamal Sabri

DANCE OF THE DESERT- For the first time ever in the history of recorded music, a unique thematic music album featuring a 5 - sarangi ensemble. The instrument, which is synonymous with the vast desert of Rajasthan, enchants as it weaves through the vast landscape adding colour, music and vibrance to its stark, yet fascinating backdrop. Multiple layers of sarangi interlace with an ambient world music canvas to create a spellbinding new sound.

Dance of the Desert by Sarangi Maestro Kamal Sabri