"Registratie van een "all-night jugalbandi" een nachtelijk concert in de vorm van een duet (jugalbandi) met Sarodspeler Aashish Khan en Sitarspeler Indranil Bhattacharya uit oktober 1994 in de Royal Festival Hall, London " (H.L.)
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar was een Noord-Indiase (Hindoestaanse) klassieke muzikant, een van de 19e generatie dhrupad-muzikanten uit de Dagar-familie. Hij was grotendeels verantwoordelijk voor de heropleving van de rudra vina als soloconcertinstrument.
" india’s thriving popular music scene—an adjunct to the country’s immense Bollywood film industry—is highlighted on this collection. The love ballad “Tere Bina,” from the 2007 blockbuster Guru, was written by acclaimed film composer and Oscar winner A.R. Rahman. "Tere Bina" also features Chinmayee, the award-winning female playback singer (an artist who records the songs that actors lip-synch). Rajeshwari Sachdev’s “Maavan Te Tiyan,” is another hit Bollywood song from the film The Perfect Husband. The album includes a recipe for Zarda Pulao, a dish of Sweet Saffron Pilaf with Nuts and Currants." (Putumayo)
The Junior (or the "Younger" Dagar Brothers were Nasir Zahiruddin (1933–1994) and Nasir Faiyazuddin (1934–1989), a pair of Indian singers of the classical dhrupad genre. They were the 19th generation of an unbroken chain of the Dagarvani Dhrupad tradition. Their father, vocalist Nasiruddin Khan, died in 1936, and consequently they learned dhrupad from their elder brothers, the Senior Dagar Brothers, Nasir Moinuddin Dagar and Nasir Aminuddin Dagar.
"As far as the instrumentation goes, I'm more familiar with the tabla and tambura than the santūr. But wow.... what a great sound. lots of atmospheric, ambient-like parts, but the tempo can pick up to a really ecstatic pace. They're all in sync like one organism that ebbs and flows like any good raga. What more is there to be said? best to listen to in a meditative mood or in the evening. (rateyourmusic.com)
"Ex-rock guitarist Jay Gee became fascinated with the Bhagavad Gita and decided to create a 4 disk English musical walk through of the epic. With a 32 page English language booklet" (muziekbank)
" Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande (born 7 October 1960) is a Hindustani classical music vocalist from Mumbai. She belongs to the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana tradition. Ashwini?s musicianship is characterized by a blend of tonal sweetness coupled with vitality and emotion and raga structure-architecture. On this CD recorded Live at Kufa Gallery , London, November 1996 are three traditional pieces. The Raga Ahir Bhairav and Raga Jaunpuri and the devotional Kabir Bhajan" (wikipedia -liner notes)
"Naar aanleiding van de wereldtentoonstelling, die in 1998 in Lissabon gehouden is, heeft het Portugese label Tradisom een twaalftal cd's uitgebracht met muziek uit de kolonies die Portugal tijdens haar befaamde ontdekkingsreizen (vanaf de 15e eeuw) gesticht heeft. De cd-boekjes bevatten mooie kleurenfoto's en uitgebreide historische en culturele uitleg in de Portugese en Engelse taal. De Portugese invloed reikte van het Zuid-Amerikaanse Brazilië tot de Aziatische eilanden Sri Lanka en Timor. Het is interessant te bemerken hoe de versmelting van Portugese muziek met inheemse muziek gezorgd heeft voor nieuwe klanken. De muziek uit landen als bijvoorbeeld Macau, Malakka, Goa en Sri Lanka komen verrassend 'Portugees' over, vooral bij liederen die in het Portugees gezongen worden." (Muziekweb).
Ronu Majumdar is, ook internationaal, één van de meest gerenommeerde uitvoerders van de klassieke (Noord-)Indiase muziek. Hij bespeelt de bansoeri, een dwarsfluit van bamboo. Hij gebruikt fluiten van verschillende lengtes en toonhoogtes om zodoende een groter bereik van tonen en klankkleuren tot zijn beschikking te hebben. In de weergave van de muziek is hij op zoek naar de diepte, de intelligentie in de muziek, de preciese uitdrukking van de emotie. (GR Muziekbank)
Bollywood op haar best. India's Coolest Cuts, From Bollywood And Beyond. The music of these CDs catches te optimism and the melancholy, the energy of a city at peace with itself. Some of the musicians were born and live in Bombay, others just sing of her. None can ignore her. (muziekbank)
" For those interested in Northern Indian-oriented traditionalism, this CD would be a wise investment. Anyone who visits Indian communities in the United States is more likely to hear modern electric Indian pop than India's traditional spiritual music. Nonetheless, the latter is alive and well (both in India and the West), and lot of Indian traditionalists continue to be recorded with enriching results. One of them is North Indian tabla player Bikram Ghosh, a very much in demand player who was trained on the instrument under his well-respected father, Pandit Shankar Ghosh. In contrast to Indian pop's use of synthesizers and electronic instruments, Ghosh embraces an entirely acoustic setting on Talking Tabla. Haunting instrumentals like "Morning Contemplations," "Vilambit Teentala" and "Carnatic Tabla in Adi Tala" are as rhythmically exciting as they are tranquil. Ghosh clearly enjoys a strong rapport with his accompaniment, which includes tamboura player Debashish Manna and Ramesh Mishra." (allmusic.com)
