The new album "India meets Europe" with hits of the Beatles and Indian ragas is now released world-wide on Amazon and iTunes.
"NORWEGIAN WOOD" (John Lennon / Paul McCartney) (c) Sony/Atv Tunes Llc could be recorded with the kind authorization of Sony/Atv Music Publishing (France). On this wonderful Beatles song the sitar was played in the year 1965 by George Harrison for the first time in western music. "WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS" (Lyrics and music George Harrison), an other wonderful Beatles song is also released on this album as well as three outstanding compositions by Deobrat Mishra (Indeuropia, Remembering Pramila Mishra, Power Of The Music) and a beautiful composition by Damien Prud'homme (Mosaic Vision).
Indian classical music meets European jazz with Pt. Deobrat Mishra, sitar & vocals, Prashant Mishra, tabla, Jeff Herr, drums and Damien Prud'homme, saxophone, flute & clarinet.
Pt. Deobrat Mishra from "Music of Benares" is the son and student of great Pandit Shivnath Mishra, Lecturer and Head of the Music Department at the Sanskrit University of Benares (Varanasi) in India.
Deobrat Mishra was honoured as India's best sitar players award of the year 1995.
In the year 2000 he received SurMani ( Jewels of sound) award in Mumbay - India.
Prashant Mishra is a very young tabla virtuoso and the grandson of great Pandit Shivnath Mishra. Jeff Herr and Damien Prud'homme are two outstanding jazz musicians known for their enormous feeling all over the European jazz scene.
The feeling and the improvisation are the leading parts as well in Indian classical music than in European jazz.
The vocal basis is characteristic of Indian classical music, the instrument music following the example of the human voice.
This meditative music lives from improvisation, nethertheless rising to a peak of excitement and tension.
Using here the voice, the sitar & the tabla, the saxophone and the drums these 4 musicans evoke a mood of rapt attention which quickly casts its spell over the whole audience.
