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  • look at imusti.com. best site for all the indian music from classics to modern songs. i am in love with this site!

  • This is an extremely poor video. It gives 0 useful information that you can't get from just listening to one good performance. It spends more time talking about spiritual mumbo-jumbo than actual music. Plus there are so many errors. For one, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi is labelled as "Pt." Bismillah Khan. Both of these masters are too great for this confusion to be acceptable. Thumbs down.

  • nerve racking,if you ask me.

  • Junk in the name of classical absolutely false info :(

  • @MPrajwal

    so true

  • the start is awful......... everything after

  • what a fuck?

  • title of song at 1:15 plzzzzzzzz

  • @wellwisher106 the final countdown

  • Portlandy: where do I find more A/V on Indian Classical Music?

    Are u taping these in India? What about a site reviewing CIMusic cd's?

    Very interested in exchanging information on this topic.

  • I'll tell you what fusion is... "Raagas Dance" by A R Rahman and Vanessa Mae!!!

  • wow

  • wow what a DEEP SLEEP we have been into..........

  • At 5:51 it is Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, not "Pandit" Bismillah Khan. And it is not Pandit, it is Ustad Bismillah Khan. Just a friendly FYI :)

  • 5*****

  • A spiritual journey

  • I was just looking for the music, not sound effects or talking. shame

  • wats the song at 9:00?

  • @LogicListens Mundiyaa tu bach ke rahi Deler Mehendi

  • Yeh we do have alot of culture, even very very old culture, but its crap, and thats why we can`t sell it!

    It`s all going to be overrun by america sooner or later anyway.

    The last time i was in india i saw pepsi adverts everywhere, even as grafitti all over the walls, and i saw a wimpy`s hamburger bar which was packed!, just to give some insight

  • @yesyes673 It should be the mission of those who love Indian culture to keep it alive...and to be strong enough to not let any foreign influences infiltrate the beautiful culture we have.

  • @yesyes673 we'll see

  • The Final Countdown!

  • hehe.. india has a rich cuLture!! :D

    too bad our speaker is destroyed, i can't hear the narration..!

    by d way this is our assignment...

    heLLo sa 3-Berchmans na manonood n2!!

  • I enjoyed this very much. There is, however, an unfortunate phasing effect on much of the narration which makes it impossible to distinguish what he saying, especially when he is naming the various instruments.

  • One observation. name Bismilla khan is put up for Bhim Sen joshi. If possible do alter it.

  • "western music is harmonic using 2 scales". hm haven´t you heard of late 19th, 20th or 21st century classical western music.

  • the video addresses foundation scales used throughout indian history. the majority western music, both classical and pop, is still based on the ionian and aeolian modes, where as the different ragas were used since the earliest accounts of indian music including pop. also for indians, westerners include people of europe who of coursed first developed the classical style of writing in the 16th and 17th centuries.

  • i'll admit though. its a poor video.

  • Thank you this is very instuctive Would love to see more of the same please

  • Nice video! Really well compiled.

  • I was at that N. Ramani concert ( 6:44) here in Cleveland. Trichy Sankaran on mridangam..

  • WOW that child laughing at the beggining is the exact one sampled for the Aliyah "Are you that somebody" Timbaland must of seen this way back then. He probably started studying Indian music then.

  • I enjoyed as an illetrate western trying to learn about Indian music it is good

    Thank ou

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  • it is not right to criticize any body or anything unless you can put an alternative ideas it will be interesting to hear your version

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  • yes, this is a very poor documentary.

  • whats with all the comments below!?

    Wheres comments about this video!?

    ok......ill make one......NICE VIDEO!

  • Everybody knows that modern Hindhu philosophy is just German idealism and British analytical philosophy.

  • @croscream

    stop reading the garbage which max muller vomited...

  • @thepedomo

    The man died in 1900, i doubt he has anything to do with what i am talking about, he being unmodern himself, unless you are talking about his translation, which i have barely read, rather i read Indian literature in Dutch and German translations.

  • @croscream

    do some more unbaised research ...read the bhagvata gita 

  • @thepedomo

    When you abandon your hatred and start saying meaningfull things i will listen.

  • When indian music is complex, why sound all songs the same?

  • r u a retard or wat? u r prbbly not indian and therefore r nt familiar wit the language or the dont listen to the music often so OBVIOUSLY its all gonna sound the same. chinese songs wud sound the same to me

  • what's the song playing on the background of daler mehndi? please reply on 8:55 i think

  • You are that; you dont believe that.

  • Zen-gnosticism is bullshit!

  • SECOND YOU!

  • I believe that the material universe, governed by natural laws and chance, (contradiction: law and chance) is the ultimate and only reality (reality of what? mind, spacetime?) and that all apparently nonmaterial substances, such as mind, are explicable as modifications of matter. (not actually materialism: Mind would be an embodiement of order; not of matter)

  • whats the song at 855

  • This is good. But please check that there seems to be a confusion as you have put "PT.Bismillah Khan" instead of "PT.Bhimsen Joshi" in the Hindustani intro that comes after Subha Mudgal. Thank you and hope you will be able to correct it.

  • This is good. But I request you to check as I think that you have by mistake put "pt.Bismillah Khan" for Pt.Bhimsen Joshi's picture in the Hindustani introduction that comes after Subh Mudgal. Thank you.

  • racism is disgusting, croscream is disgusting.

    I mean everyone should look up their family tree really carefully. I don't think that there is anyone who doesn't have someone in hers/his family who was from an other culture. If you believe in racizm and hate everyone but "your kind" it's like hate yourself, man... I just SO cannot unerstand: what is good in racizm? what iss good in hating the world? someone who believes in it PLEASE tell me!

  • It is easy to call me a racist. I am a white, catholic male. but would you judge the muslims world for hating jews, or the chinese for hating the japanese? No, you would not because that would make you a racist.

  • i didn't say that that's not disgusting but u r sad too

  • If you can think a group of people are disgusting because they collectively hate another group of people, then i can hate that same group of people for the same reason.

  • sure ya can but still: disgusting and sad

  • What? Can't you put up a good argument?

    Oops, your lower class.

  • no man, i just dont give a damn about u coz i know what u r, a racist

  • But if you don't care about me why do you continue awnsering my questions?

  • because studiing about hair is even more boring than u r :)

  • Exactly. So you need to give a damm about me in order to escape boredom.

  • lol, u'll say anything to disagree with me, this is why u became even more boring than studying. so u can reply what ever u want there wont be reply from me :)

    but to be honest u seem like someone who i could even like if u'd not be racist but u r... annnyways

    byebye

  • That is actually really horrible. You like me as a person, but instead of accepting me as a likeble person, you decide to dislike me based on one character flaw. What if one of your best friends became a gambler, whore or drug addict, or what if a person you would seem to like was one of these things, would it destroy your judgement in such a way as for you to abandon that person completely even though they don't do any direct harm to people?

  • Racism is moral because i can not hate my ancestors or my culture.

  • Uh...sorry, I didn't noticed my brother has left logged his profile and so my previous comment is't imputable to him... I'm Kern.

  • Nationalism, racism, militarism, hate... How a music video can spawn all this shit in the comments?

    Sick for your SERIOUS moral problems...

    And usually I hate to judge others's morality...

  • This video can spawn all this, because evil people like myself feel this incredible hatred for darker skinned people and the world will never rest until all racists whites are dead. Right?

  • Okay, a positive comment from a westerner. Thank you for this educational video. I have always enjoyed the sound of Indian music. Now I've learned a first little bit about it.

  • Okay, a negative comment from a westerner. No thanks for this educational video. I have always hated the sound of Indian music. Now I've learned a first little bit about it!

  • interesting that they use violin... is it tuned to the indian intervals?

  • Thanks for the excellent summary. But I have always felt strange "talking" about music. I studied classical Indian singing for a short time and a little table, to better understand this amazing musical tradition. Would like to see it cross-pollinate with Western harmony.

  • Nicely done.

  • Please accept art and music for what it is. When someone begins a comparison sake, it gets to be disturbing.

  • lol at all the fucking racists that can't accept anything different from their culture (croscrem)

  • I am a racist because i feel i need to protect myself against non-white racial politics.

  • Indians have a better-then-you mentality that does not go easily together with there low, racist and fake culture.

    The reason why this fellow placed Indian music after rock music, is so he can feel good about ''proving'' that Indian music is better then western music.

    But these Indian people are fooling themselves; placing Indian music next to western popular music just proves they are on the same level. India does not match the richness of Europe.

  • The European, Chinese, Japanese and even Persian culture has more to offer then the Indians do.

    While global nihilism is breaking the once great culture of Japan and has broken the Islamic world and India, Europe seems untouched after all. We might conquer nihilism in the following two decades, and then when we do, we will come after you with a vengeance.

  • lols croscream, people come on youtube to watch videos, you come on to somehow prove that your race (which you wont state) is superior to indians...gg ranting on the internet gets you far you ignorant racist asshole

  • u do no that the europeans and chinese and japanese has been influenced by indian cultures. buddha was indian. read what einstein said abt india. do u no what mark twain said? khmer empire (the oldest and worlds most famous site in cambodia) is a hindu temple. even the nazi symbol is an indina symbol. nazis twisted it and then used it. geroge harrison, the beatles they all wen to india to learn music. goa trance the most famous trance/house music was originated in goa

  • u do no that the indians and chinese and japanese has been influenced by european cultures. tolstoi was european. read what gandhi said abt tolstoi. do u no what mark twain said? roman empire (the oldest and worlds most famous site in italy) is a pagan colloseum. even the scientific symbols are europa symbol. hindu's twisted it and then used it. putri davi, gandhi they all wen to europe to learn science. rock music the most famous folk/electronic music was originated in america

  • dude asian cultures is waay older than european cultures

  • Actually centuries of racial mixing and rape have destroyed the original genotype in most area's of Asia, including the Chinese who mixed with Indians and later with whites under mongolian rule. There is no place in the middle-east and in india which still holds the original unmixed population it could have had 5, 3 or 2 thousand years ago, while Europe still has large area's with the original populations of 5, 3 or 2 thousand years ago. Blond and red hair, blue and green eyes.

  • This means that Europe has the purest form of cultural history. One where the ancestors, rituals and writing are in balance. While Asia does not. This makes Europe the oldest culture in Eurasia.

  • its 40000 years old, as evident by the cave paintings in europe. the blond hair stuff is recent however, northern climate adaptation. not all unmixed europeans are blond

  • It depends. For example; most Dutch people are not blond anymore because even a small amount of mixing with reds and brown will do that. But we still have our lactose tolerance which is actually higher on average then sweden or saxony. interesting huh?

  • higher than in sweden ? well, thats because of the famed dutch crave for milk products imo. easily amplified mutation in a small population thats dedicated to/benefitting from a certain product. the lactose tolerance heritage comes from the same ancestors in all europeans (who can digest it).

    btw, im lactose tolerant and german but my hair is dark and my eyes are a mix of light brown, green, yellow and blue. just saying that lacose tolerance =/= blond hair.

  • heh, i was also thinking that. I am not blond either; brown hair with blue-brown eyes. They used to be cat-green but they are changing now. Well i would not have to point to hair colour or milk because we can trace population via genetic markers.

  • This proves my point of India being racially mixed and northern-europe being racially pure.

  • thats true. theres a new genetic map of europe. north germany, holland, denmark, sweden and norway clustered very closely and overlapped greatly. clearly one people.

  • indians themselves say their nation is composed of distinct people

  • Yes India once had black skinned people like africa. Some of them still remain. But India has become a nation overrun by lighter brown people.

  • That is good or bad from your point of view?

  • So pray for me cow-fuckers.

  • So before u make fun of indian cultures see what they have offered u. indians originated mathemetics. (bhattacharya). the first surgery book was written in india. but what the fuck do u know. just go back to munching down burgers and lookin porn u fag. india will kick the netherlands ass any day u stupid fucking twat

  • So before u make fun of european cultures see what they have offered u. european originated philosophy. (φιλοσοφία). the first surgery book was printed in europe. but what the fuck do u know. just go back to munching down rice and lookin porn u fag. europe will kick the goans ass any day u stupid fucking twat

  • yea so both world have their own and influenced each other greatly? then why are we so inferior to you guys if we have both have our traditions that have left a mark in the world?

  • Because we are not racially mixed and our culture is older.

  • actually indian culture is oldest in the world. go look it up. and GO PRAISE HITLER U FUCKING RACIALLY PREJUDICE NAZI. I HOPE U GET FUCKED BY A BIG BLACK DICK SO ULL GET VIOLATED BY SOMEONE OTHER THAN UR WHITE MOM

  • I have read in many historical text that Africa alone holds many tribes, language groups and ethnic cultures that predate the racially mixed, dravidian-aryan-tocharian-turk­ic-mongolian-arabic-negroid-eu­ropean (<--- insert missing conquerers and rapists) culture in India. In fact; many cultures in Africa, in Australia and in other remote regions of the world have lives for thousands of years without much change in there art, religion or ethnic type.

  • Do you know what negroes, arabs and dravidians share in common? Both three groups are more immune to sicke cell disease and malaria, there must have been a lot of inbreeding between these three groups because the people who moved out of Africa did not have this trait, because australian aboriginals don't have this trait.

  • croscream it is clear this video has frightened you that India has a more advanced classical music than Europe. You suffer from inferiority complex so start ranting on about how genetically pure are Europeans. Stop polluting this page with your Nazi bullshit. Go and join a Neo Nazi gang because that is where you belong.

  • by the way, he is responding to this message i send to him via personal messages.

    --Most educated Europeans strongly dislike Indian culture, though there is very little consensus what aspects of Indian culture we dislike. People see cruel little dark (brown, light) skinned men who grin at use and are in a constant state of passive-aggressive hatred.

  • Holland the drug capital of the world. Holland famous for its crackheads. Holland is also well known for mentally sick people who take pleasure in things which makes the rest of the world vomit.

  • Stabs? Yes the kind of word i would associate from a nation of drug addicts and street criminals. Fact is your country is an insignificant waste of space. India is fast growing into a superpower. It can flatten Holland in a microsecond. But then India's closest ally Russia can do that also. Same way Russia showed Georgia who is boss, If every Dutch was an arrogant racist bitch as you then Russia might flatten Holland.

  • lovely... ha ha... man, we need some more people with your sense of humor...

  • he he... you make me smile... thanks... cute view of the world, u got there... lovely!!!

  • Why do i always have the feeling that Indian people are lairs? Hindus are so fake.

  • Fail

  • I know, they fail at everything they do. There is no sincerity in the Indian people, its just all giggles and smiles, but if you look deeper you see they have nothing. Indians are liars.

  • Fusion is Con+Fusion. Can you mix the spriritual with the profane. The systematic with the sytemic.

    Time for India to not need to impress the West. George Harrison was a good guy but Ravi Shanker was a Titan

    Dr Anand

  • Beautiful ideas well executed

    Dr Anand

    Overseas Citizen of India

  • Indian music is sweet. I want what India's smokin'.

  • This song is just so beautiful in everyway, you has a fantastic voice, i love classical music. My inspiration. This video shows india in its deepest level

  • didint timbaland use that baby on one of his alyha songs?

  • IF YOU ARE AN ILLITERATE AND DO NOT UNDERSTAND A THING THEN SHUT UP ,COLLECT THE £55 that i pay tax for you to buy bread rolls with, you savage.

  • Good. But I'd like a little more in-depth of specifically sitar and sitar-like instruments and music. Please list sites if you know any.

  • very good

  • Good one

  • Fabulous!

  • Brillant, Love It.

  • Dear Friends,

    Indeed a great video. I will also look forward at you all visiting our channel at youtube (click on my link) which is also dedicated to Indian Classical and New Age music. Music Today is a leading label of India in Classical Music.

  • good is some one wants whats Indian music it is best way they found.

  • The video missed a GREAT LEGEND NAMED " ILAIYARAAJA" ... MAESTRO SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED in this documentry..he has composed 450 films and 4500 songs...a true master of HIndustani, carnatic and WESTERN Classical Music.

  • What makes him a MASTER of Western classical music?

  • He says tru art is indeed universal. Pretty simple . I was just replyin to your racist tangent. Your Netherland, Im American, This is Indian. Look beyond , and see we are human, very simple.

  • it seems that somethings are deleted when you or I reply. Strange.

    I agree with your last sentence. " I embrace racism and use it as a learning tool.

  • sums up what indian music is all about

  • lol.. you think India is messed up? I have nothing but pity for you. Take a good long look at how you lead your life. But then, I guess you are too shallow to understand it anyway.

  • Indian people are shallow.

  • Fail

  • what?

  • oh, you are cursing me.

  • Great effort at representing the Indian classical music. However, I was surprised that there was no mention of the dhrupad style, which is the source of both hindustani khayal and carnatic music. None of the legendary dhrupad vocalists and veena players are included. Also, non-indian maestros such as John Higgins (Carnatic) and Ken Zuckermann (sarod) should have been included. Also, the bollywood and folk music at the end is not Indian Classical Music.

  • Good effort to show the diversity of Indian music.

  • it sounds like gino and techno music

  • no offense.. just your ignorance taken.

  • apparently the james bond theme was made by an indian on some kind of indian instrument [im not very musical so dont ask what] only the last note was changed to the music, instruments used and tempo were changed though, not sure if it was bought or stolen

  • Started off o.k., but the ending was something like an advert from the ministry for tourism in India. The music info. itself was too brief to engage intrest.

  • cool, i enjoyed watching it

  • people are sooo jealous her.. god..

  • F@#$ off

  • indian classical is very nice music.. the pompous and proud way in which the presenter announces it (we are the greatest ...style) does not go with the indian classical traditions.

  • oh man the classical indian music is beatiful but its sad that people like ravi shankar and others assimilated corny rock music in order to apeal to American douches. The fusion they talk of is like the indian equivilent of smooth jazz.

  • Nice documentary. Keep up

  • O_o; Was unaware someone forced you to watch this.

  • wow. the ignorance is unbelievable.

  • mmm....how dare you call this shit? music came from india...you wouldnt have atreyu without the great musicians of ancient india. and you cant even compare the talent of these musical giants with that of atreyu.

  • This is music ur havin a laf listen 2 wu tang clan or sum uva hardcore rappers yeah peace out suckas woop woop

  • Ur clip is wonderful, i would suggest to delete the silly and ingorant comments from her, since it is disturbing then rasikas, who love ur video.

  • wonderful whatever try listening to metallica

  • Indian music is possibly the best, and the most developed form of musical art out there, especially Carnatic music. However, I acknowledge some of the classical arts that are amazing as well.

  • This is not music ! only info!!

    :S:S:S

  • wanderful music thank you