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Live at Duke DVD
© 2006 Eight Gates Music, USA
AVAILABLE HERE
K. Sridhar
(Sarod)
Anil Datar
(Tabla)
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Live in
Frankfurt 82
© 2007 Country and
Eastern, SWEDEN
MP3 AVAILABLE HERE
CD AVAILABLE HERE
Featuring:
K. Sridhar
(Sarod)
Don Cherry
(Pocket Trumpet)
SWEDISH
GRAMMY Nomination
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Raag Marwa is a rarely performed sunset raga, perhaps because of the challenge it poses. The instrument’s strings are tuned to notes forbidden to be struck. K. Sridhar’s rendition is profound, fierce, and skillful. A Thumri style Raag Bhairavi concludes this live concert recording. |
Bitter Funeral Beer Band was an early world music group that mixed African funeral music and improvisation with a Nordic touch. This archival recording captures the soulful keening of the fourteen member band.
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Ocean of Sound Vol. 2 © 2001 Eight Gates Music, USA
AVAILABLE HERE
K. Sridhar
(Sarod)
K. Shivakumar (Violin)
Anil Datar
(Tabla)
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Krishna Lila
© 2002 Six Degrees
Records, USA
Various Artists
"With K. Sridhar on sarod and K. Shivakumar on violin dialoguing on an 11-minute raga, it's full circle back to the original trance music."
- John Dilberto, Pulse, USA July, 2002
"The album has become a runaway hit in clubs from San Francisco to Paris to Moscow, reaching No. 1 position on the US world-music charts."
- Lisa Tsering, Times of India, India September 26, 2002
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Raga Todi, a morning raga, expresses both heroic and devotional moods. It has six notes in the ascent and seven notes in the descent. The Raag begins with Alaap, Jhor, and Jhala; followed by two compositions set to a rhythmic cycle of sixteen beats known as Teental.
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Krishna Lila strings together a mala of devotional gems from both North and South India. Modern trance dance sounds are blended with timeless bhakti bhajan melodies to create a sound that is reverential, accessible, and liberating. Like the best incense, the fragrance of these tunes lingers in the mind. |
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Ocean of Sound Vol. 1 © 1999 Eight Gates Music, USA
AVAILABLE HERE
K. Sridhar
(Sarod)
Anil Datar
(Tabla)
MP3 Sound Sample
Raga Bilaskhani Todi
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Arabandi
©1999 Nada Productions, ISRAEL
Recorded live in Tel Aviv.
K. Sridhar
(Sarod)
Zohar Fresco (darbukkah and frame drum)
S. Amir
(ney and vocals)
Taiseer Elias
(oud and violin)
MP3 Sound Sample
Arabandi
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Raga Bilaskhani Todi was originally composed by a son at the death of his composer father, Tansen. The mood of this elegant raga is compassion. It is to be heard in the quiet early hours of the dawn. Composed of Alaap, Jhor, and Jhala, it has a rising pentatonic scale and a falling septatonic scale. Raga Bairagi continues the early morning mood of contemplation. |
Arabandi emerged from the meeting of exceptionally gifted international musicians from diverse eastern cultures - Persian, Arabic, Hindustani - with a desire to explore the common roots of these traditions and their instruments. In contrast to other musical encounters between East and West, Arabandi is a unique fusion of East and East. |
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Food For The Soul
©2006 Country and Eastern, SWEDEN
Recorded live in Copenhagen
AVAILABLE HERE
K. Sridhar (Sarod)
Sopan Dev (Tabla)
"His sophisticated use of laya (variations in tempo against the underlying beat) requires the tabla player to do everything he can to simply hold the beat down."
- Teed Rockwell,
India Currents, USA
April 2001
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Shri Durga
©1999 Six Degrees Records, USA
Various Artists
Amazon.com's
Best of 1999
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Raga Charukeshee with Alaap, Jhor, and Gat in Teental is an evening Raga to be heard after Sunset. This Hindustani rendition of a Carnatic raga is dedicated to his first guru and mother, Smt. Rajalakshmi, a renowned vocalist in her time. The mood is devotional.
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Shri Durga samples the musical spices of North India blended by dj Cheb i Sabbah. Ancient raga structure is used to make a curry of sarod, sarangi, sitar, tanbura, tabla, dutan, and dholak as well as Hindu and Moslem vocal styles. The mood is set with respectful use of samples from mantra, chanting, prayers, invocations and nature sounds |
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Ragas Madhukauns and Piloo
©1999 Amigo Musik, SWEDEN
Recorded live in Paris.
AVAILABLE HERE
K. Sridhar
(Sarod)
N.V. Murthy (Tabla)
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Arab Path To India
© 1996 WOMAD Select, UNITED KINGDOM
Available at womad.org/select
K. Sridhar
(Sarod)
Adel Salameh
(Oud)
"Two absolutely mesmerizing duets which show that music has surely one root: the human heart."
- Bruno Deschenes
All Music Guide, USA
2000
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Raga Madhukauns is an evening raga blending two ragas, Madhuvanti and Jog. The mood is wonderous (adbhuta).
After a short Alaap, the composition is set to Rupak tal (7 beats.) Raga Piloo is a light evening raga in the romantic Thumri style. The Gat is in Dadra tal (6 beats) then Teental (16 beats). |
Two world renowned musicians create inno-vative transcendent music while exploring the connection between Arabic and Hindustani musical roots. With their shared scales, tones, and techniques these two related instruments blend well whether the improvisation is based on a raga or a makam. |
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Nadanjali
©1990 Auvidis, FRANCE
K. Sridhar
(Sarod)
Sandip Bhattacharya (Tabla)
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For CD purchase or
distribution information contact
srisarod@yahoo.com
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This is the night Raga, Malkauns, with a pentatonic scale of five notes. Recognition of the slow developmental quality within the Beenkar style of the Dhrupad school is shown by the length of the recording. The mood is heroic and majestic. |
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Shringar
©1989 RealWorld Records, UNITED KINGDOM
K. Sridhar
(Sarod)
K. Shivakumar (Violin)
G.S. Sabri
(Tabla)
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This duet or jugalbandhi features a rarely heard combination, sarod and violin. Raga Bageshri is a late evening raga using all seven notes on the scale. Recorded here is the deliberate unfolding of Alaap, Jhor, Jhala. Also recorded live, Raga Bhairavi’s Alaap is followed by vilambit gat in Dadra tal then drut gat in Teental. It ends in a dialogue between sarod, violin, and tabla. |
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Raga Kaushik Kanada
©1983 Auvidis, France
K. Sridhar
(Sarod)
Madhukar Kothare
(Tabla)
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An evening raga, Raga Kaushik Kanada is built and developed all the way to the end. This recording was awarded the 1984 Grand Prix Audiovisuel de L'Europe from the Academie du Disque Francais. |
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