Klaus Badelt - Pirates of the Caribbean

Klaus Badelt: Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black.
Symphony Orchestra of Radio Television of Serbia.
Conductor: Antonia Joy Wilson
Simply excellent!

Max Raabe & Das Palastorchester

BRAVO for Max and for the reminding to some of the most beautifull past times...

Le Jazz Hot

My favorite song from "Victor/Victoria"(1982.
Performed by Julie Andrews.
Original Music by Henry Mancini.

Chalte chalte - "Pakeezah"

Beautiful Meena Kumari...
And beautiful ghazal written by Kaifi Azmi, music by Gulam Mohamed.
From the film "Pakeezah", directed by Kamal Amrohvi.
Of course sung by great Lata.

Sang Hyang Dedari

The Sang Hyang Dedari dance usually involves teenage or young dancers because of their purity: a virgin girl is considered holy. When it is performed, the dancers are in a state of trance, allowing them to make wonderful movements.
A holy priest, known locally as 'pemangku', then brings them out of the trance by saying a prayer and blessing them with the holy water. When they emerge from the trance, they are weak and exhausted and unaware of having danced on stage.The dance is performed when divine spirits temporarily descend on villages, revealing themselves through the entranced dancers. Sang Hyang is the name of the divine spirit, meaning holiness, while Dedari (meaning 'angels') describes the trance ceremony.
Performed by Ubud Panca Artha Group:



Foto from myudistira's photostream in flickr.com

Sweet Charity

Film: Sweet Charity (1969)
Choreography: Bob Fosse.
Fosse is King!)

Giya Kancheli

Giya Kancheli is Georgia's most famous living composer and arguably its best-known cultural export. He has written music for dozens of films, many of them well-known in the Russian-speaking world but virtually unknown outside it, such as Georgi Daneliya's sci-fi cult hit Kin-dza-dza.
Theme from this film by Moscow Virtuosi. Conductor: Vladimir Spivakov.

Vogue in India

Vogue books a passage to India this april. And, for once, it brings an indian model — the divine Lakshmi Menon.

Rohit Bal

With his signature dyed-blond hair and androgynous style, Rohit Bal is widely recognized in India. He is the longtime favorite of Bollywood and Indian celebrities. His clothes blend traditional Indian fabric with a dash of modern whimsy.

Kathak/Flamenco

Anita Ratnam

The classical dances of India are essentially story-telling arts. Some of the names, such as Kathak and Kathakali, are even derived from the root word 'katha' meaning story. In fact the Natya Shastra in its chapter on the origin of dance describes how in the Treta yuga, the gods -- concerned at falling morals in the mortal world -- asked Brahma to create an edifying art that would not only provide lessons in ethics but also entertain the audience and practitioners. And who doesn't love a good story? So it was, says the author of the Natya Shastra, that Brahma devised the art of dance, culled from the essence of the four Vedas.
Anita Ratnam, one of India's most gifted artists, is an accomplished classical and contemporary dancer and choreographer.

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre

According to legend, Cloud Gate is the name of the oldest known dance in China, a ritual dance of some 5,000 years ago. The Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan was the first modern dance company in Asia and is now thought to be one of the best in the world.

Kora of 'Ba Cissoko'

The kora is a 21-string harp-lute used extensively by peoples in West Africa.

Souad Massi

She is a leading light among the young Algerian artists. She sings the Arabic language with a sweet and pure voice. Her songs are of folk rock rhythms (besides she is often compared to Joan Baez or Tracy Chapman).

Karsh Kale

Karsh Kale's realize crew have created an important recording in the world of asian music. This might be the first real melding of classical traditional hindustani music and DnB--so much so that the combination aspect of it disssappears. There is a new synthesis brewing here, and it's an updated form of classical music. Kale weaves both traditional Indian instrumentations, indian vocals, and varying breakbeats.

Kiran Ahluwalia

Ahluwalia sings Ghazals and Punjabi folk songs, mainly in a traditional style. (According to her website, she studied the art of Ghazal for several years in Hyderabad with a teacher named Vithal Rao, "one of the last living court musicians of the Nizam (King) of Hyderabad.") She has a remarkable, strong voice. Her band, which includes western guitar and bass, and has a bit of a jazz sensibility.

Zia Mohiuddin Dagar

Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (1929-1990), fondly known as Bade Ustad, was one of the stalwarts of the Dhrupad tradition in post-independence India. He was largely responsible for the revival of the rudra vina as a solo concert instrument.
Raag: Yaman

Ileana Citaristi

Italian by birth, Ileana Citaristi holds a Doctorate in Philosophy with a thesis on “Psychoanalysis and Eastern mythology”. She has come to Indian dance after years of experience in the traditional as well as experimental theatre in Europe. lleana has been living in Orissa, India, since the year 1979 in close contact with the people, their language and culture.
It's odissi dance performing near 64 yogini temple in western orissa (2006). The film has three sloka from the SAUNDARYALAHARI, the tantric text dedicated to the female energy. Choregraphy by Ileana Citaristi. Dancers: Ileana Citaristi, Saswat Joshi.

Uday Bhawalkar

Highly praised by music critics, the singer Uday Bhawalkar counts in present-day India as one of the younger generation´s leading exponents of dhrupad, one of the oldest forms of classical song still current in the north of India.
Raag: Bhinna Shadja

Ganesh Anandan

The percussionist, composer and instrument-maker Ganesh Anandan was born in the south of India in Bangladore, the centre of Hindu Karnatic music. Ganesh Anandan works at transferring the rhythmic notions and percussive techniques of the south of India onto the tambourine, drums and various resonance surfaces. His dynamic style of playing is a unique blend of the classical Karnatic style with the North African and Persian traditions enhanced by a set of hand- and finger-techniques which he has himself developed.
Movietrailer of "VOM BLAUEN HIMMEL", a movie about mongolian shamanism.

Nagina

The Nagina is a snake in the form of a woman. In popular belief the snake is associated with wealth, fertility and power. In tantric symbolism, the snake represents the primal creative energy or Kundalini, which lies dormant in the space of the spine, which, when aroused, ascends and activates the chakras of the subtle body.
It is also the title of a movie made in Bombay. In the movie, the Nagina, played sumptuously by Sridevi, is discovered by her mother-in-law in her true form.

Ali Akbar Khan

"For us, as a family, music is like food. When you need it you don't have to explain why, because it is basic to life."
-Ali Akbar Khan

Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's family traces its gharana (ancestral tradition) to Mian Tansen, a 16th century musical genius and court musician of Emperor Akbar. Ali Akbar Khan's father, the late Padma Vibhusan Acharya Dr. Allauddin Khan, was acknowledged as the greatest figure in North Indian music in this century. Ali Akbar Khan himself is one of today's most accomplished Indian classical musicians.

Ragg: Shree

Zindagi ye

Nice qawwali Zindagi ye of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan from the film Dil Kabbadi