An album featuring the Grammy Award Winner legendary sitar maestro Ravi Shankar in a mixture of intense emotions. All these emotions vary according to the style and approach of playing and to the nature and principal mood of the raga. In this album, the artiste has played a rare morning raga, Asa Bhairav, that he learnt briefly from his guru, Baba Allauddin Khan, and later developed himself. The next raga rendered in this album is a serious night raga Kaunsi Kanhara, played in the style of the Beenkar gharana. This is concluded by a dhun in raga Mishra Gara, a combination of romantic thumri and folk styles. |