Brigitte Menon - Sitar- Raga Jaunpuri - alap

A summer morning private concert, in a garden.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• musique
• indiennne
• inde
• indian
• music
• sitar
• indien
• raga
• jaunpuri
• ustad
• vilayat
• khan
• Shujaat
• imdadkhani
• gharana

[hammerguy1512]

I must say after the first 2 minutes I started to really enjoy this rendition. I think you were still warming up in the first 2 mins.

[sitarbrigitte]

Sometimes Ragas don't let you in so easily, you have to coax them !

And yes it takes time to tune in, specially outdoor: loud cicadas songs, wind, dog running around... Charming nature but concentrating becomes a challenge.

[nancyl2]

Being from America, I had no idea what a Raga was, how it was written. Then I began to read and study its complexity. How it is a structure of things like Different levels of your soul journey also moods in Nature. There are complicated sets of rules of how to build a melody. I have fallen in Love with this genre. --

[nancyl2]

@GUNIDAS Beautiful writing; like a bag pike there is that fixed note; I am always in awe when I listen to other cultures music. I Dream one day we will all join in the one huge orchestra that we all belong to; only our parts have been split from each other 'When this dream comes true we will all experience a Blissful;Joyful Orgasmic Delight our Souls will Float. So happy to have been brought back to a place I would have only received with a God-finger leading me here; not PC bright. <3 to U

[rajputwm]

@SpittinGlitter

Profound.................

[rajputwm]

@nancyl2

yes nancy, Raag music needs to be celebrated as a world heritage......

[rajputwm]

roh kheench le aap nay.......

[fairmountfairy]

Very very nice. Simply beautiful.

[bigskip2121]

Hey! I know nothing about this, as far as I know a RAGA is something you wipe up your floor with, but I know what I like ......and that was realy Great!

[GUNIDAS]

The great thing about an Indian Raga is that every performer becomes a creative artist. The ascending scale, the descending scale and the PAKAR ( distinguishing combination of notes) of each raga are fixed. Beyond this, it depends on the creativity of the artist how he/she handles the raga. He/she does not slavishly sing or play what someone else has written. It is said that a food dish, a turban and a Raga are never exactly repeated.

[dddd1181]

....om sakti..

[SpittinGlitter]

@sitarbrigitte Love your response. Ragas are not pieces, they are processes. No matter how much practice we have under our belts, we pick up the instrument each time as if the first time: old lovers reconnecting. The tuning never quite as we left it. We pluck the mizrab awkwardly as if to calling upon the universe. We settle into the instrument, to connect into the flow. And just as we almost give up, something happens. An easiness. The tarbs sound and remind us we are home.

[kaakilinishad]

yes clemalford dear- it is a uttar ang rag from bookish point. The purvang is very present. My guru says the Re Ma Pa dha Pa Ma Pa ga and dha (tar)ga Re ga Re Sa Re ni dha Pa dha Pa Ma(alpa) ga makes this rag - so its open to both angs, The ang say where the Vadi falls.