Raga Bilaskhani Todi-Khyal/Raga Mishra Bhairavi-Tappa

by Sulochana Brahaspati

Overview

This CD opens with three compositions set in "Raga Bilaskhani Todi" rendered in the khyal form, a sung classical or art music form in which, unusually for Indian vocal music, the words regularly take a secondary place to an abstract vocal sound. As befits this earnest morning raga -- she sings of the torments of separation in Brijbhasha or Braja Bhasha, a dialect of Hindi which ousted Sanskrit as the language of song around the time of the Muslim invasion of Northern India -- its exposition is slow and controlled. In the second piece, a tappa (a form closely associated with the Punjab) embedded in "Mishra Bhairavi, " she entreats her lover to discover the wonders of nature to be found in the garden. Sultan Khan accompanies particularly sensitively on sarangi and Anindo Chatterjee on tabla. ~ Ken Hunt

Product Details

Release Date:	04/16/1995
Label:	Nimbus
UPC:	0710357530524
Rank:	236095

Tracks

1. Tohe Sada Niharun
2. Damaru Naad
3. Sajan More Aaye
4. Ai Najaaron Di Baharaan

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Sulochana Brahaspati   Primary Artist,Vocals
Anindo Chatterjee   Tabla
Sultan Khan   Sarangui

Technical Credits

Jane Harvey   Liner Notes
Sulochana Brahaspati   Translation