each devotee (there is no doubt that both ali akbar khan and amjad ali khan dedicated their lives to music) has his own ways of praying. but yes, it's good to have favourite :)
This is true classical music ..Where virtuosos is achived by sensibility not by an hermetic set of rules like ocidentals classic music..Pure wisdom, music, architecture,painting..as no law...
So entirely different from saran rani's style of playing. Ali Akhbar Khan seems to produce a cosmic level of sound where the sound of the sarod merges into space and eternity. A vibrant style. Thanks for placing this clip on internet.
Bach didn’t invent the tempered scale, but he did successfully demonstrate what to do with it. Khansab simply represents an utterly different school of thought. Both are god-like, showing us some of the varying sounds of paradise…
@LegacyKillah its unnecessary comment. amjad ali khan nowdays is no good, but listen to his early years. there is a deepness to his old recordings. moreover he also plays a more powerfull tantrakari style. he has made huge innovations in technique, and his own technique is just mind blowing. music has various aspects with giants in each area.
Zila Kafi and Desh Malhar are my favourite pieces as these two ragas touch my heart along with his other renditions. I listen to his music almost every day as I find peace through his sublime music. It resonates in my soul. All his renditions are inimitable such as Chandranandan, Shree, Mian Ki Malhar just to name a few.
We're remembering our most respected Khan Shaheb, the great legend tomorrow night in advance of his birthday via our Surtarang [Wave of Melody] Broadcast worldwide.
This is true classical music ..Where virtuosos is achived by sensibility not by an hermetic set of rules like ocidentals classic music..Pure wisdom, music, architecture,painting..as no law...
I just love indian classical music i dont like any kind of music i dont like slayer or something they just start yelling this freezes you to saying listen to this!
i am sharada my godfather alam manuck medina all the family the love is a vibration so powerful it is up to us sharada aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh before u were born shamas JACKIE GODDEN OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GODDESS oh my father send jhis need to connect to her children they must find eachother
How your brain interprets this music is actually part of the song, the vision it conjurs, the place it takes you. This is music. This is the power of music.
and all the ascended Sarod and Sitar Master players all look down from Above and laugh at the comparisons we try to make between who is better amongst them.
@theMata94 that's very true. He used to say that when he performed he wasn't really on the stage performing the music, he said that he was really part of the audience. He was always just listening to himself play and seeing, "Okay what am I doing wrong, what can I do better" He always used to say he was just a beginner which left a funny unanswered question. If he was a beginner what were his students?
Most important thing about sarod which makes its playing more difficult is that this instrument doesnt have sustained notes...Like violin it is very difficult to creat feel on this...
his father is actually the greatest musician ever. he said in an interview, he mastered every intrument western and non and played 23 hours a day,for that was his religion, no sleep, only meditation...he lived to be 110
He practiced for 18 hours a day, even on his deathbed he was thinking only of his music. He was a great man and a great soul and it shows in his music. You all talk of his greatness but to him he was just a beginner in music, he used to say that he knew nothing. This is how great he is, he could not see his own greatness and only the greatness of the music and maata sarasvati
@ram97tabla It is because of his everflowing spirituality. To him he is only a grain of rice compared to the purity and goodness that god has. What blessed is the one who worships god through music...
It is because of his everflowing spirituality. To him he is only a grain of rice compared to the purity and goodness that god has. What blessed is the one who worships god through music...
I Have Been Playing Sarod Since The Last 5 Years and i am just in love with it . indian music is the music which touches my heart . and Ustad ali Akhbar Khan Is My Idol. Every Kind Of Music Is Born From Here. From Indian Classical music.
We have a real problem as children of Western civilisation. That is that we find it very very difficult to appreciate other cultures on their own terms. We have to see it through a lens of our own assumptions, usually about our inherent superiority. Indian improvisation is MUCH MUCH more sophisticated then anything in jazz. Take a look at Indian music theory and the fact that it takes 40 years to really graduate. An objective statement I assure you. Learn more.
@bimwopbarn Each raga consists of a scale made up of a set of ascending and descending notes that are usually different. Two of these notes are dominant in a raga like focal points and are called the vadi and samvadi. This is the framework within which the artist improvises without trespassing beyond the bounds of the chosen raga. One of the main forms of improvisation in Indian Music is 'Khayal' , an Arabic word meaning 'Creative Imagination'
you and bimwopbarn are both pompous fucking assholes. Nobody on this site gives one shit about your purposely convoluted condescending arguments. You both need to take Viagara and get laid. get out of your minds and get into your hearts. screw your intellectual bullshit!
The Last Picture Show - Actually no, I am not arguing from cultural bias, but you are arguing from cultural relativism. You need to open your eyes more carefully in the morning if you think that the spiritual culture of, say, 18th-century Germany, is equivalent ("just as spiritual") to the complete immersion in spiritual practice, yogic and sufic, of the Mughal India of, say, the era of the great Indian composer Mian Tansen. They are totally different, and have lead to totally different musics.
TheLastpictureshow - You say Coltane and Miles also got "there" and yet you say comparing Khan to them is like comparing apples and oranges (which are both, incidentally, a type of fruit). It sounds like you are being rather silly. What posters are referring to is a spiritual place Indian and other non-polyphonic musics can take one too which is transcendent of anything Western composers can attain to because it is simply not within the capacities of the language of their music.
You are the one being silly- Beethoven, Brahms, Coltrane, Miles- none of them are any less "spiritual" than Khan. What you describe is nothing other than hand-wavy mumbo jumbo. You are equating the tickling of your ears with spirituality when they have nothing to do with each other. Great music is great music. Spiritual music is spiritual music. You are arguing from cultural bias and nothing more.
@purekhizi come on now, thats a ridiculous claim and obviously extremely biased. who are you to say who can reach a spiritual place and who cannot? both are devoted to God and to their music and craft. there is only one language of music it just has different dialetcs, how can you say the indian dialect of music has a higher capacity then western music?? how can you even make that claim?
@bimwopbarn Oh dear. Listen more carefully my friend. I did not say that Western spiritual culture cannot 'reach a spiritual place'. It is just very clearly not usually the same 'place' as Indian culture. Yes they are different! Indian food is different to German food! Yes, the Taj Mahal is different to St Pauls Cathedral and yes I would say, 'better'!!! ! Please spare me the distressing relativism. Yes the musics are different! They have different aims! Bias?! Learn a bit about the music.
@purekhizi And please learn a little bit about 17th/18th/19th century Western history. It is simply nonsense to say that the normative European culture at the time was equivalent to Indian culture in terms of its metaphysical inclinations. This is the time of personal autonomy, Kant, the formation of scientism, religious scepticism, French revolution etc. By the way I am an Anglo-American who loves Western mysticism etc.
@purekhizi But it pains me the kind of mindset that blinds itself to the often utterly divergent parameters of cultural development because of a frankly retarded sub-historical post-modernism that looks at spirituality and moral worth as utterly relative concepts. The whole raison d'etre of Indian Music is its being an aid to meditation. It is for the contemplation of Beauty with a capital B. It is a trigger for spiritual experience and the whole structure reflects that.
@purekhizi And these are STATED aims not subjective claims. Now obviously a Modern westerner can enjoy it or not enjoy it however he likes, but if he has any inclination towards truth he should not take this extraordinary music down to his own level of personal 21st century monocultural relativist culture. It is a kind of deep prejudice to take away the interpretative categories of other cultures and replace them with a deeply ludicrous principle that aesthetic experience is purely subjective.
@purekhizi Now if you want I can go into the questions of whether universals are manifest in individuals entities in the external world or whether universal entities are actually just names that refer to individuals. The triumph of the latter view, nominalism, is what largely lead in the West to the type of repugnant relativism that is the assumption of so many people who has been brainwashed by Modern post-Christian Western culture. Indian civilisation developed along a different trajectory.
@purekhizi i took your words slightly out of context. however you did say that this type of music is transcendent of anything western composers can attain. u speak a lot of relativism, there are aspects of music and musical expression that are universals, and even if we could not agree on this, it is bias to believe that one way is better or trancendent of another
I got into Indian Classical Music about five years ago. In that time i've listened to a myriad of Indian Musicians, but no single person has moved me like Ali Akbar Khan. His music resonates in my soul, we share the same birthday and i think thats has something to do with it. Lastly, Ravi might not be on the level Khan is, but he really was the one who brought this music to the west. Without Ravi Shankar, we may have never heard of Ali Akbar Khan.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. But I would like to submit that Pandit Ravi Shankar is more than equal to the Great Ustad: just listen to their duets---the Raga Shri (the hallmark melody of Maihar school) or Sindhu Bhairavi or Manj Khamaj...I have had the infinite pleasure of having heard them together several times with Baba Allauddin Khan presiding over the concert in my uncle's home....mindblow
well said about this man, he is one of the best but i don't think ravi shankar was any level less than that of ali akbar, same goes for nikhil banerjee and ustad bismillah khan and shivkumar sharma and pannalal gosh for flute.
these are unparallel giants of indian classical music.
ali akbar is a phenomena in india classical music along with ravi shankar, don't forget giants like nikhil banerjee, bismillah khan, pannalal ghosh, hariprasad, shivkumar sharma
@CWF142 actually khan was the first indian musician to be released on LP. The avant-garde, such as henry flynt, tony conrad, and lamonte young, were well aware of him.
Cannot agree more with you. I have been into Indian Classical music for the past 30 years. I came across to this clip recently. It is the sweetest piece of Sarod I have ever listened to. It refreshes my soul. Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri played amazingly; it was a perfect accompaniment.
This extraordinary symphony resides in a cosmic zone the scent of which even the greatest of the Western composers, Bach, only experienced two or three times.
That's total nonsense. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms- they all scaled the same heights in their own fashion. You're comparing apples and oranges and rather stupidly at that.
@TheLastPictureShow Coltrane and Miles got there, yes.. not euro-classical musicians. really getting there, is getting into a state where you dont think about the notes that come out, they just emerge. no euro-classical musician improvised in the spiritual way that jazz musicians and indian musicians do.
See this is once again- unquantifiable, subjective mumbo-jumbo. You never heard Beethoven improvise. You never heard Brahms improvise. You never heard Liszt or Chopin improvise- and yet they were all universally acknowledged master improvisers and some of their greatest compositions, which are spiritually and musically the equal of anything produced by any artist in the world at any point in history, came out of their improvisations. Don't mistake your feelings for fact.
740-825 is bach like in it's coherence and perfection.
but stupid me it's the whole thing this guy is beyond anything we are accustomed to in the western world. it is like he resides in the place Coltrane tried to reach
Coltrane got there. And so did Miles. It's silly to place individuals on some godlike level---genius is genius, there is no greater or lesser at the level of mastery, only individual idiosyncrasies and the influence of their respective cultures.
right on! Coltrane made it too, but by another pathway. Khan, who is perhaps one of the greatest four or five players in the history of recorded music, has the benefit of a thousand years of unbroken tradition. Train broke new territory.
another most important thing about sarod which makes its playing more difficult is that this instrument doesnt have sustained notes (sur ki aas)...like violin it is very difficult to creat feel on this.
Sarode just a banjo with no frets? Definitely not that simple. It is far heavier and larger with a smooth steel fingerboard, to say nothing of the 25 strings. Strings are struck with a coconut shell and notes are played on the fingernail. Basically, the only thing sarode shares with a banjo is the skin belly.
No, it is very much so more difficult to play. No only is there a lack of frets but the strings have much, much lower tension requiring much stronger chops to play. This man probably had fingertips like stones. And then theres the other, sympathetic, strings that arent fretted but are played; basically more to keep track of. Although thats not to say banjos easy to play, ive tried.
Khansahib was a great teacher, a great musician and above all a saint. He truly cared about his students and committed to music. His focus and stamina were incredible. I was blessed to have been his student.
He was an example of how a life should be lived. I know a disciple of his, and after hearing from him about Ustad's teachings, my own life has underwent a transformation. Ustad has attained a high position amongst divinity - that's how a life should be lived. Who will teach us now that he's gone...
Yes. Albert Einstein, could barely tie his shoes. And was told by a teacher he "would never amount to anything."
Repressive societies (which is all of them) shuttle people off into roles. Some people break free some do not. Look at India how many thousands of years have people been kept in a caste system that still exist today?
Do you think there has only been this one man..out of all those millions and millions of people to play good music?
You cant measure intelligence by the ability to tie one own shoes. And in spite of that, he dedicated his whole life to physics. You can be the best at something and the worst at something else and the second aspect wont change the first. Society wont change you. It can only shut you up, put you in jail, kill you, but especially when you are born to do something, they cant make you believe you are someone else. Thats what they do with mediocre people.
You and i are agreeing. we're just saying it differently.
But i must say i think its incorrect to think that all people just know what it is they were born to do. I personally have been put in prison for my beliefs and actions. So i know quite well what these systems of tyranny we have politely named governments will do to the dissident. I am he!
My point with AE was that his intelligence was not seen by his teachers and society, had he listened to them..well he WOULD have been nothing..
Castes rigid since Islam invasion and advent Kaliyuga. Long ago was daivi varna ashram ; work according to qualities, not simply by birth. Explained by Bhaktivedanta Swami in Bhagavad Gita. Many instances of brahmanas in ksatriya families, etc even lower births take highest role, as to one's nature, not rigidity of birth. Lord Caitanya says, "kiba vipra kiba nyasi, sudra kene naya, ye krsna tatwa veda, se guru haya, if one knows the science of Ksna, no matter his caste or creed, he is guru."
Those who are stupids please don't listen to Indian classical music, you have enough stupid music available, like Madonna's bottom and Rihanna's thighs and so on.
one of my biggest regrets is not seeing him perform live. :( RIP. the biggest sarodical musical bastard the world has ever known! lol (i say bastard as a compliment for you tards who think im hating)
u could avoid the word "Bastard", even u had a good intention. It's Ali Akbar Khan......my master called him a saint of music......so u know what i mean. And i remind u that he is the son of BABA(baba in all sense).......
There is a deep sense of serenity in his music as in this Zila Kaafi piece. His rendition of Raag Bairagi as as well as Bilaskhani Todi are also very beautiful.
Incomparable artiste. May you have as much peace & happiness as u gave to generations of music lovers. Still remember the small informal baithaki programmes and that enigmatic smile.
this is the best sarod player on the earth,i repent that i was not in that generation of great fahter Baba Alauddin ,if you have ,Idoubt , Baba Alauddin's any recording please post.
each devotee (there is no doubt that both ali akbar khan and amjad ali khan dedicated their lives to music) has his own ways of praying. but yes, it's good to have favourite :)
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clemalford 2 weeks ago
Absolute bliss! This only proves how devotion and dedication to your instrument can truelly change perspectives on music. R.I.P Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
Masaladosaibaba 1 month ago
Thank you so much for uploading this...It's very difficult to find classical music on youtube
SMboy94 2 months ago
Please help to preserve the Musical LIbrary.
May the lineage of the Khansahib grow and forever flourish.
SriIsaMayi 2 months ago
bhai ei instrument bajaate hole gaar bhenge jaay.... aar magi potate hole rock band e dhuke drum thuke bera...
crippleuno 3 months ago
Im floating in the clouds while watching the world....shits crazy
wexy021 3 months ago
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This is true classical music ..Where virtuosos is achived by sensibility not by an hermetic set of rules like ocidentals classic music..Pure wisdom, music, architecture,painting..as no law...
yaloomail 4 months ago
Khan Sahib's music is similar at least melodically to that of J S Bach. A man like Khan Sahib never comes to this planet every time.
shap274 5 months ago
it's just that every note means something....it speaks....it is a story....that is his genius....
chunter5100 5 months ago
So entirely different from saran rani's style of playing. Ali Akhbar Khan seems to produce a cosmic level of sound where the sound of the sarod merges into space and eternity. A vibrant style. Thanks for placing this clip on internet.
pvanoyen 6 months ago
Beatiful!!! Thanks!!
TheGuitarkim 6 months ago
penis
mancheromanchero 7 months ago
Bach didn’t invent the tempered scale, but he did successfully demonstrate what to do with it. Khansab simply represents an utterly different school of thought. Both are god-like, showing us some of the varying sounds of paradise…
papaskip 8 months ago
"Sarod" in Hungarian means "you take shit"
mysteriousDSF 8 months ago 2
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SurLover 6 months ago
Everybody keeps talking about Amjad Ali Khan... But Ali Akbar Khan is far superior... in diversity of style and at suggesting emotions.
LegacyKillah 9 months ago 4
@LegacyKillah its unnecessary comment. amjad ali khan nowdays is no good, but listen to his early years. there is a deepness to his old recordings. moreover he also plays a more powerfull tantrakari style. he has made huge innovations in technique, and his own technique is just mind blowing. music has various aspects with giants in each area.
shankyxyz 1 month ago
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Zila Kafi and Desh Malhar are my favourite pieces as these two ragas touch my heart along with his other renditions. I listen to his music almost every day as I find peace through his sublime music. It resonates in my soul. All his renditions are inimitable such as Chandranandan, Shree, Mian Ki Malhar just to name a few.
We're remembering our most respected Khan Shaheb, the great legend tomorrow night in advance of his birthday via our Surtarang [Wave of Melody] Broadcast worldwide.
maitreyeehffrsa 9 months ago
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maitreyeehffrsa 9 months ago
@maitreyeehffrsa thanks to those masters the world is a better place and i am grateful those enchanting sounds are timeless. THANK YOU
cubo714 5 months ago
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This is true classical music ..Where virtuosos is achived by sensibility not by an hermetic set of rules like ocidentals classic music..Pure wisdom, music, architecture,painting..as no law...
yaloomail 9 months ago
thanks for the comment , you said it all. he is absolutely graet.
takeen1 10 months ago
ohmmmmm
MultiMudskipper 11 months ago
the percussion in this is insane! Khans playing speaks for itself.
mortomagic 1 year ago
the percussion in this is insane! Khans playing speaks for itself.
mortomagic 1 year ago
I just love indian classical music i dont like any kind of music i dont like slayer or something they just start yelling this freezes you to saying listen to this!
megaafghan4life 1 year ago
Talent2Agent 1 year ago
@Talent2Agent ........Go fuck yourself.
comets14733 4 months ago
i am sharada my godfather
alam manuck medina
all the family
the love is a vibration
so powerful
it is
up
to
us
sharada
Talent2Agent 1 year ago
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yaloomail 1 year ago
a very great man-
hswatnik 1 year ago
Amazing music ... another world and dimension. This is not about which Beatle made Indian music famous!
gulamrasul24 1 year ago
How your brain interprets this music is actually part of the song, the vision it conjurs, the place it takes you. This is music. This is the power of music.
MAGIC..
guitarprism 1 year ago
and all the ascended Sarod and Sitar Master players all look down from Above and laugh at the comparisons we try to make between who is better amongst them.
smkonwater23 1 year ago
@theMata94 that's very true. He used to say that when he performed he wasn't really on the stage performing the music, he said that he was really part of the audience. He was always just listening to himself play and seeing, "Okay what am I doing wrong, what can I do better" He always used to say he was just a beginner which left a funny unanswered question. If he was a beginner what were his students?
ram97tabla 1 year ago
the Khan family is like the Bach family
moondog50002000 1 year ago
@moondog50002000 CORRECTION** the bach family wishes they could be the khan family.
reallybored32 1 year ago
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Most important thing about sarod which makes its playing more difficult is that this instrument doesnt have sustained notes...Like violin it is very difficult to creat feel on this...
yaloomail 1 year ago
his father is actually the greatest musician ever. he said in an interview, he mastered every intrument western and non and played 23 hours a day,for that was his religion, no sleep, only meditation...he lived to be 110
AgentZeroForTheWin 1 year ago
wah wah and wow kiabath hai
Tabladude456 1 year ago
He practiced for 18 hours a day, even on his deathbed he was thinking only of his music. He was a great man and a great soul and it shows in his music. You all talk of his greatness but to him he was just a beginner in music, he used to say that he knew nothing. This is how great he is, he could not see his own greatness and only the greatness of the music and maata sarasvati
ram97tabla 1 year ago 12
@ram97tabla how can you get his biography ?
jpandyaraja 1 year ago
@ram97tabla It is because of his everflowing spirituality. To him he is only a grain of rice compared to the purity and goodness that god has. What blessed is the one who worships god through music...
theMata94 1 year ago
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@ram97tabla
It is because of his everflowing spirituality. To him he is only a grain of rice compared to the purity and goodness that god has. What blessed is the one who worships god through music...
theMata94 1 year ago
@ram97tabla you're mistaken. he played, played for 18 hours a day.
imgonnadiesoon 1 year ago
Akhbar Khan Sahib is truly an amazing musician. He has harvested the beauty of this raaga in ways Ive never heard before.
Aurileus5 1 year ago
Which raag is this please? its beautiful and the variations are ethereal. Thanks for sharing.
coronation76 1 year ago
@coronation76 Raga Zila Kafi. One could also call it Mishra Kafi. It shares the same notes as the western Dorian scale, used in medieval music.
gusheneshin 1 year ago
Now look at them yo-yo's...that's the way you do it. You play the sitar on the MTV.
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it. Curry for nothin' and chicks for free.
adamcharney 1 year ago 3
I Have Been Playing Sarod Since The Last 5 Years and i am just in love with it . indian music is the music which touches my heart . and Ustad ali Akhbar Khan Is My Idol. Every Kind Of Music Is Born From Here. From Indian Classical music.
TheIlikeit 1 year ago
Jai Sri Krishna. Jai Ram. Jai Radha/Krishna. Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate...Boddhisvaha.
nicodagger 1 year ago
We have a real problem as children of Western civilisation. That is that we find it very very difficult to appreciate other cultures on their own terms. We have to see it through a lens of our own assumptions, usually about our inherent superiority. Indian improvisation is MUCH MUCH more sophisticated then anything in jazz. Take a look at Indian music theory and the fact that it takes 40 years to really graduate. An objective statement I assure you. Learn more.
purekhizi 1 year ago
excuse my ignorance i dont know much about this music, how much is improvised and what is written or planned?
bimwopbarn 1 year ago
@bimwopbarn Each raga consists of a scale made up of a set of ascending and descending notes that are usually different. Two of these notes are dominant in a raga like focal points and are called the vadi and samvadi. This is the framework within which the artist improvises without trespassing beyond the bounds of the chosen raga. One of the main forms of improvisation in Indian Music is 'Khayal' , an Arabic word meaning 'Creative Imagination'
purekhizi 1 year ago
@purekhizi thanks for the info, is there a melody that has been written that get repeated or stated?
bimwopbarn 1 year ago
you and bimwopbarn are both pompous fucking assholes. Nobody on this site gives one shit about your purposely convoluted condescending arguments. You both need to take Viagara and get laid. get out of your minds and get into your hearts. screw your intellectual bullshit!
comets14733 4 months ago
The Last Picture Show - Actually no, I am not arguing from cultural bias, but you are arguing from cultural relativism. You need to open your eyes more carefully in the morning if you think that the spiritual culture of, say, 18th-century Germany, is equivalent ("just as spiritual") to the complete immersion in spiritual practice, yogic and sufic, of the Mughal India of, say, the era of the great Indian composer Mian Tansen. They are totally different, and have lead to totally different musics.
purekhizi 1 year ago
@purekhizi I couldnt agree more, good explanation.
GatoradeIsNotJuice 1 year ago
TheLastpictureshow - You say Coltane and Miles also got "there" and yet you say comparing Khan to them is like comparing apples and oranges (which are both, incidentally, a type of fruit). It sounds like you are being rather silly. What posters are referring to is a spiritual place Indian and other non-polyphonic musics can take one too which is transcendent of anything Western composers can attain to because it is simply not within the capacities of the language of their music.
purekhizi 1 year ago
@purekhizi
You are the one being silly- Beethoven, Brahms, Coltrane, Miles- none of them are any less "spiritual" than Khan. What you describe is nothing other than hand-wavy mumbo jumbo. You are equating the tickling of your ears with spirituality when they have nothing to do with each other. Great music is great music. Spiritual music is spiritual music. You are arguing from cultural bias and nothing more.
TheLastPictureShow 1 year ago
@purekhizi come on now, thats a ridiculous claim and obviously extremely biased. who are you to say who can reach a spiritual place and who cannot? both are devoted to God and to their music and craft. there is only one language of music it just has different dialetcs, how can you say the indian dialect of music has a higher capacity then western music?? how can you even make that claim?
bimwopbarn 1 year ago
@bimwopbarn Oh dear. Listen more carefully my friend. I did not say that Western spiritual culture cannot 'reach a spiritual place'. It is just very clearly not usually the same 'place' as Indian culture. Yes they are different! Indian food is different to German food! Yes, the Taj Mahal is different to St Pauls Cathedral and yes I would say, 'better'!!! ! Please spare me the distressing relativism. Yes the musics are different! They have different aims! Bias?! Learn a bit about the music.
purekhizi 1 year ago
@purekhizi And please learn a little bit about 17th/18th/19th century Western history. It is simply nonsense to say that the normative European culture at the time was equivalent to Indian culture in terms of its metaphysical inclinations. This is the time of personal autonomy, Kant, the formation of scientism, religious scepticism, French revolution etc. By the way I am an Anglo-American who loves Western mysticism etc.
purekhizi 1 year ago
@purekhizi But it pains me the kind of mindset that blinds itself to the often utterly divergent parameters of cultural development because of a frankly retarded sub-historical post-modernism that looks at spirituality and moral worth as utterly relative concepts. The whole raison d'etre of Indian Music is its being an aid to meditation. It is for the contemplation of Beauty with a capital B. It is a trigger for spiritual experience and the whole structure reflects that.
purekhizi 1 year ago
@purekhizi And these are STATED aims not subjective claims. Now obviously a Modern westerner can enjoy it or not enjoy it however he likes, but if he has any inclination towards truth he should not take this extraordinary music down to his own level of personal 21st century monocultural relativist culture. It is a kind of deep prejudice to take away the interpretative categories of other cultures and replace them with a deeply ludicrous principle that aesthetic experience is purely subjective.
purekhizi 1 year ago
@purekhizi Now if you want I can go into the questions of whether universals are manifest in individuals entities in the external world or whether universal entities are actually just names that refer to individuals. The triumph of the latter view, nominalism, is what largely lead in the West to the type of repugnant relativism that is the assumption of so many people who has been brainwashed by Modern post-Christian Western culture. Indian civilisation developed along a different trajectory.
purekhizi 1 year ago
@purekhizi i took your words slightly out of context. however you did say that this type of music is transcendent of anything western composers can attain. u speak a lot of relativism, there are aspects of music and musical expression that are universals, and even if we could not agree on this, it is bias to believe that one way is better or trancendent of another
bimwopbarn 1 year ago
মনোমুঘধকর...
netrashid 1 year ago
legendary stuff... this what music was made of and has now regressed to plain mediocrity!
achatterjee1920 1 year ago
What type of raga would this be? bhairav, bharavi?
Axeman89 1 year ago
zila kafi, mean near to rag kafi
cenkjeekhan 1 year ago
thanks very much!
Axeman89 1 year ago
godly, divind, awesome and no words .....
nilakshagupta 1 year ago
there is only one note to play!
charlessimon 1 year ago
nvm i believe its a sitar ya?
monkeygriper31 2 years ago
@monkeygriper31 No it is sarod.
akbh40 1 year ago
what is the instrument in the back the guy is playing (the long thin one)
monkeygriper31 2 years ago
I was wondering the same thing. I think the instrument is a TANPURA
bnilller 2 years ago
its the Tanpura
Sandyisane 2 years ago
thanks!
monkeygriper31 1 year ago
Wow this page has some stupid comments!
kmk5g 2 years ago
You r right. The comments reflect the kind of persons who are offering their wonderful opinions.
Our comments cannot elevate Khansahib, nor degrade him. His work and life stand as a great example to thousands of his students.
KDKAPOOR 2 years ago
I got into Indian Classical Music about five years ago. In that time i've listened to a myriad of Indian Musicians, but no single person has moved me like Ali Akbar Khan. His music resonates in my soul, we share the same birthday and i think thats has something to do with it. Lastly, Ravi might not be on the level Khan is, but he really was the one who brought this music to the west. Without Ravi Shankar, we may have never heard of Ali Akbar Khan.
CWF142 2 years ago 19
@CWF142 "Resonates in my soul" shut up....
sammehsimp 1 year ago
@sammehsimp
Give him a break!
TheVitalstatistix 1 year ago
@CWF142
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. But I would like to submit that Pandit Ravi Shankar is more than equal to the Great Ustad: just listen to their duets---the Raga Shri (the hallmark melody of Maihar school) or Sindhu Bhairavi or Manj Khamaj...I have had the infinite pleasure of having heard them together several times with Baba Allauddin Khan presiding over the concert in my uncle's home....mindblow
TheVitalstatistix 1 year ago
@CWF142
well said about this man, he is one of the best but i don't think ravi shankar was any level less than that of ali akbar, same goes for nikhil banerjee and ustad bismillah khan and shivkumar sharma and pannalal gosh for flute.
these are unparallel giants of indian classical music.
pearl1729 1 year ago
@CWF142
ali akbar is a phenomena in india classical music along with ravi shankar, don't forget giants like nikhil banerjee, bismillah khan, pannalal ghosh, hariprasad, shivkumar sharma
pearl1729 11 months ago
@CWF142 actually khan was the first indian musician to be released on LP. The avant-garde, such as henry flynt, tony conrad, and lamonte young, were well aware of him.
mancheromanchero 7 months ago
@CWF142,
Cannot agree more with you. I have been into Indian Classical music for the past 30 years. I came across to this clip recently. It is the sweetest piece of Sarod I have ever listened to. It refreshes my soul. Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri played amazingly; it was a perfect accompaniment.
SurLover 6 months ago
This extraordinary symphony resides in a cosmic zone the scent of which even the greatest of the Western composers, Bach, only experienced two or three times.
aqspiker 2 years ago
That's total nonsense. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms- they all scaled the same heights in their own fashion. You're comparing apples and oranges and rather stupidly at that.
TheLastPictureShow 1 year ago
@TheLastPictureShow Coltrane and Miles got there, yes.. not euro-classical musicians. really getting there, is getting into a state where you dont think about the notes that come out, they just emerge. no euro-classical musician improvised in the spiritual way that jazz musicians and indian musicians do.
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@GatoradeIsNotJuice
See this is once again- unquantifiable, subjective mumbo-jumbo. You never heard Beethoven improvise. You never heard Brahms improvise. You never heard Liszt or Chopin improvise- and yet they were all universally acknowledged master improvisers and some of their greatest compositions, which are spiritually and musically the equal of anything produced by any artist in the world at any point in history, came out of their improvisations. Don't mistake your feelings for fact.
TheLastPictureShow 1 year ago
can nybody tell me what raag is this
piklusamanta 2 years ago
740-825 is bach like in it's coherence and perfection.
but stupid me it's the whole thing this guy is beyond anything we are accustomed to in the western world. it is like he resides in the place Coltrane tried to reach
questions613 2 years ago 16
Coltrane got there. And so did Miles. It's silly to place individuals on some godlike level---genius is genius, there is no greater or lesser at the level of mastery, only individual idiosyncrasies and the influence of their respective cultures.
TheLastPictureShow 1 year ago 2
@questions613
right on! Coltrane made it too, but by another pathway. Khan, who is perhaps one of the greatest four or five players in the history of recorded music, has the benefit of a thousand years of unbroken tradition. Train broke new territory.
ThotherBrother 1 year ago
@questions613 fuck yeah
goozmie 1 year ago
@questions613 hell yeah
goozmie 1 year ago
@questions613
740-825 is bach like in it's coherence and perfection.
can you make it more clear? do you mean bach had composed something similar, i would love to hear then.
pearl1729 11 months ago
Ravi Shankar cannot hold a candle to Ali Akbar Khan
MusicalKaleidoscope 2 years ago
Yeah but you can't really compare and generalize like that they both play different instruments regardless of whether they sound similar or not.
Axeman89 2 years ago
I apologise I ment to send that comment to the person below haha.
Axeman89 2 years ago
Ordinary eyes categorize human beings ~ Rumi.
....And ordinary ears compare one musical genius to the next and rate them on a scale of 1-10
omdogstar 2 years ago
Btw
Ali Akbar Khan & Ravi Shankar were dear friends, family (brothers at one time), collaborated on albums & shared the stage with one another.
I'm sure they never thought of their musical relationship in such a way.
omdogstar 2 years ago
ravi shankar my man, lps still are in circulation. enough said.
Byrontheone 2 years ago
they all sound the same
bobrocksjohnrocks 2 years ago
To someone who's not really listening in the first place.
omdogstar 2 years ago
finally i find what i was looking for...does anyone knows other song like this?
mfan85 2 years ago
ummm.sarod=banjo without frets?:-)
i don't think u have much experiences with a sarod son!!
availablegod 2 years ago
another most important thing about sarod which makes its playing more difficult is that this instrument doesnt have sustained notes (sur ki aas)...like violin it is very difficult to creat feel on this.
ronwhite19 2 years ago
Sarode just a banjo with no frets? Definitely not that simple. It is far heavier and larger with a smooth steel fingerboard, to say nothing of the 25 strings. Strings are struck with a coconut shell and notes are played on the fingernail. Basically, the only thing sarode shares with a banjo is the skin belly.
djalapenyo 2 years ago
That's just what I read lowgrau.
woodzeeuk 2 years ago
No, it is very much so more difficult to play. No only is there a lack of frets but the strings have much, much lower tension requiring much stronger chops to play. This man probably had fingertips like stones. And then theres the other, sympathetic, strings that arent fretted but are played; basically more to keep track of. Although thats not to say banjos easy to play, ive tried.
PMDJabkmm 2 years ago
It looks like you were truly fortunate KDKAPOOR a beautiful instrument and from what I gather notoriously difficult to play.
woodzeeuk 2 years ago
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It's not that hard to play. It's just a banjo with no frets.
You better have an ear, though, or you're screwed.
Tabla drummer in the video has got a great left hand.
lowgrau 2 years ago
chattymouth
malatewalla 2 years ago
Below comment in reponse tor blastingcaps.
May all AAK's disciples find solace in the continuing world-wide appreciations of his greatness of talent and soul.
Tamoharadasa 2 years ago
Khansahib was a great teacher, a great musician and above all a saint. He truly cared about his students and committed to music. His focus and stamina were incredible. I was blessed to have been his student.
KDKAPOOR 2 years ago
saints smoke cigarettes in the same room as their students, and drink chivas?
kmk5g 2 years ago
thank you khan for teaching this raga i love you
TheMeruchakra 2 years ago
A tear in the eye for Khansahib.
Antarblue 2 years ago 3
I love Indian classical music!!!!!
chelpydog 2 years ago 2
What a loss, I've been listening to A.A.K. for 40 years!
R.I.P. Khansaheb
haclil 2 years ago 2
Beautiful music, thanks for posting.
andygray 2 years ago
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nice music,
I am getting ready to write music encyclopedia which in greatest musicians from every country will be existed.
Can you help me about Indian musicians please, Can you write me top legendary 5 Indian musicians?
( I need an expert opinion, please answer if you think you are capable of to decide it)
decideyourmusic 2 years ago
May Allah be pleased with him, and greet him as a friend!
mysticjaz 2 years ago
hi mysticjaz, didnt you know he was hindu?
mrlowdangle 2 years ago
He was an example of how a life should be lived. I know a disciple of his, and after hearing from him about Ustad's teachings, my own life has underwent a transformation. Ustad has attained a high position amongst divinity - that's how a life should be lived. Who will teach us now that he's gone...
rhynasas 2 years ago
A star in the sky. Shine in peace Ustad.
Xuafmot 2 years ago 3
Wah Ustaadji wah! Artists like Khan saheb are God's gift to mankind!
mahineil 2 years ago
Is that why artists are usually involved with the occult?
blastingcaps 2 years ago
great.realy good
DeWatanLeila 2 years ago
Great music and great soul ustad ali akbar khan.......such musician is born once in 1000 years !!
SuperArun123 2 years ago
Actually people like tis are born all the time, they are just to stupid and repressed (or oppressed) to know it.
blastingcaps 2 years ago
so they are great geniuses and very stupid at the same time
AristYdes 2 years ago
Yes. Albert Einstein, could barely tie his shoes. And was told by a teacher he "would never amount to anything."
Repressive societies (which is all of them) shuttle people off into roles. Some people break free some do not. Look at India how many thousands of years have people been kept in a caste system that still exist today?
Do you think there has only been this one man..out of all those millions and millions of people to play good music?
If you do, you are a fool.
blastingcaps 2 years ago
You cant measure intelligence by the ability to tie one own shoes. And in spite of that, he dedicated his whole life to physics. You can be the best at something and the worst at something else and the second aspect wont change the first. Society wont change you. It can only shut you up, put you in jail, kill you, but especially when you are born to do something, they cant make you believe you are someone else. Thats what they do with mediocre people.
AristYdes 2 years ago
You and i are agreeing. we're just saying it differently.
But i must say i think its incorrect to think that all people just know what it is they were born to do. I personally have been put in prison for my beliefs and actions. So i know quite well what these systems of tyranny we have politely named governments will do to the dissident. I am he!
My point with AE was that his intelligence was not seen by his teachers and society, had he listened to them..well he WOULD have been nothing..
blastingcaps 2 years ago
Castes rigid since Islam invasion and advent Kaliyuga. Long ago was daivi varna ashram ; work according to qualities, not simply by birth. Explained by Bhaktivedanta Swami in Bhagavad Gita. Many instances of brahmanas in ksatriya families, etc even lower births take highest role, as to one's nature, not rigidity of birth. Lord Caitanya says, "kiba vipra kiba nyasi, sudra kene naya, ye krsna tatwa veda, se guru haya, if one knows the science of Ksna, no matter his caste or creed, he is guru."
Tamoharadasa 2 years ago
Those who are stupids please don't listen to Indian classical music, you have enough stupid music available, like Madonna's bottom and Rihanna's thighs and so on.
viswan1942 2 years ago
It was only upon his death that I was introduced to his music. All I can say is that his talent grabs your soul and speaks to it.....RIP
Kind regards - Bilal Malik, U.S.A.
bmalik06 2 years ago
The same with I. With one death, many births.
Leaveitago 2 years ago
RIP, maestro
BuzzMcTank 2 years ago
One can only thank such a soul for visiting our planet when he did. yes missed already.
kraiggrady 2 years ago
its heart teaching.......!
zahid365 2 years ago
om mani padme hum
pfraterdeus 2 years ago
one of my biggest regrets is not seeing him perform live. :( RIP. the biggest sarodical musical bastard the world has ever known! lol (i say bastard as a compliment for you tards who think im hating)
deadhead65 2 years ago
u could avoid the word "Bastard", even u had a good intention. It's Ali Akbar Khan......my master called him a saint of music......so u know what i mean. And i remind u that he is the son of BABA(baba in all sense).......
Arupkant 2 years ago 3
speechless.
zain4b 2 years ago
May his soul rest in peace!
There is a deep sense of serenity in his music as in this Zila Kaafi piece. His rendition of Raag Bairagi as as well as Bilaskhani Todi are also very beautiful.
subhajit0 2 years ago 2
R.I.P ustad ali akbar khan
1carlento 2 years ago
Incomparable artiste. May you have as much peace & happiness as u gave to generations of music lovers. Still remember the small informal baithaki programmes and that enigmatic smile.
loneshadow02 2 years ago
Keep playing for another 10,000 years! RIP
NYUKULELE 2 years ago 2
R.I.P.
ThatLovelyEnglishBob 2 years ago
RIP
badaustad 2 years ago
kya baat! Rest In Peace Khansaheb
Arundeb 2 years ago
RIP
As a white suburban kid, he opened my ears to a whole other world out there.
mactatio 2 years ago 3
May God rest his soul in peace . . .
bhaiyaji2 2 years ago
I wish the best to all close to him.
seabehind 2 years ago
Hare Krsna ! See ya in heaven someday.
Traumatoast 2 years ago
May your soul rest in peace !
somfrodo 2 years ago
Peace be with you and may Raga forever carry your spirit with blessings. RIP Ustad Ji...
mhatra 2 years ago
What a great musician, what a loss. I hope he was comfortable and at peace.
frickfrickfrick 2 years ago
This is such a reminder of what a great musician Khansahib is, and what a huge gift he has been to the world.
grrlchick 2 years ago
ahh... after one beer and about 7 minutes of this awesome music i'm in another world!!
tonydjangolopez 2 years ago 2
achhhhh what a soft!! simply a kind if many bagawan bleesin
yahube 2 years ago
this is the best sarod player on the earth,i repent that i was not in that generation of great fahter Baba Alauddin ,if you have ,Idoubt , Baba Alauddin's any recording please post.
ramakant72 2 years ago
Ali Akbar rocks!
Simply... the best sarod player on earth!
yohrdzayr 2 years ago
KAPARA !!! )
ubbddu 2 years ago
kya bath ! the fingers of a tabla player are so fast.. these two are world geniouses.
pukarokhan 2 years ago