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Raga Guide

Advantages: AMAZING CD AND BOOK
Disadvantages: none

this is such a briliant cd and book guide. i would highly reccomend this to all indian musicians and people interested in studying indian classical music , specifically north indian aka hindustani music. it has a deep explanation of the basics of indian music so that you can truly appreciate the ragas (melodic structures) and talas (rhythmic cyles) and more features unique to indian music. the cds are also great as they are thoroughly explained in ...

raaheel 24.06.2006 · Read full review
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Review of India - The Raga Guide (A Survey Of 74 Hindustani Ragas) - Various Artists

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Pandit ji's Inexpressible Music

Advantages: HIS sitar can control your heart and soul, lovely music
Disadvantages: comprises of only four tracks

SITAR SOUL is like foreever kind of a music which really opens the hidden truth of life by bringing mental peace to your mind. I think Ravi shankar is capable and even famous for Composing Music which is not composed by rules.No doubt his music is inexpressible Im a DIE HARD fan of Pandit Ravi Shankar ,after silence the next thing which comes to my mind is his SITAR.I feel this is one of his best creations.Raga Mishra Kafi and Raga Mian Ki Malhar ...

confuseless 07.12.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Sitar Soul - Ravi Shankar

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anoushka shankar - live at carnegie hall

Advantages: brilliant
Disadvantages: none

i can put my hand on my heart and reccomend this to every single one of you out there. Anoushka shankars first album called anourag was fairly dissapointing, it was good but for the daughter of ravi shankar ji i would say that she needed vast improvement. then i heard her album rise and i liked some of it but the fact was that i dispise remix type modern music with such a deep intense music. then this cd came out and i got it. i was soo astonished ...

raaheel 18.06.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Live At Carnegie Hall - Anoushka Shankar

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Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha come together

Advantages: One of the most passionate performances of Ravi Shankar
Disadvantages: none at all

The notes of HOMAGE TO MAHATMA ,was composed on the spot by Ravi Shankar while taking part in a Radio broadcast, soon after MAHATMA GANDHI was assasinated in 1948,but the music was recorded much later in the 70's..and the album made 10 years later in 1981. This is Hindustani Classical music at its best. One cant hope for anything better than this.The masters have come together to give us a musical feast in this magnificent album, which mesmerises ...
...Shankar (sitar); Mrs. Jaban, Mrs. Widya, Prodyot Sen, Sunil Kumar (tanpura); Alla Rakha (tabla). MUSIC BASED ON Raga Mohan Kaunus, Raga Gara and Tala farodast A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON THE HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL MUSIC (:various sources) Classical music Of The Sub-continent There have been many styles of Classical music developed by different families reffered to as "Gharaana".They have developed different styles of classical music, genres and instruments, ...

Planter 31.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Homage To Mahatma Gandhi - Ravi Shankar

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the worst world music in the world

Advantages: interesting new idea
Disadvantages: sounds awful

When i first heard of this CD i was like WOW! For the first time ever someone is playing tunes on tablas. (the western equivelent would be playing songs on loads of drum kits all tuned to different notes). I bought the cd immediately and couldnt wait to play it at home. I must admit though, when i played it, i could have killed myself. It was sooo dreadful. the most boring and monotonous music i have ever heard. it actually featured some of my favourite ...
...in to the store and buying this. i am soo sorry for doing such a negative review but i have to get this out. Please no body ever buy this cd because like me you will become scarred for the rest of you lives! also, if you are into world music or indian music, there are hundreds of other cds, buy them, not this. even if somehow you enjoy this cd (there must be something wrong with you ;) you will get completely bored out of your mind after the first ...

raaheel 28.06.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Tabla Tarang - Ragas On Drums (The World's Musical Traditions #10) - Pandit Kamalesh Maitra

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