My perception of meditation has evolved after listening to this beautiful piece by Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasia. It's from the album called solid gold. The composition is so beautiful , It brings back memory of childhood and happy days. Pt. Hari Prasad Ji is known for such magical compositions but this one is special . Technically it is called Thumri Mishra Khamaj but I recoginze it as consciousness. Here is the link-
http://www.raaga.com/channels/hindustani/album/HI00380.html
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Is it The dark side of music..
It all started when read about this Raaga called Malkauns. It is known to be a Raaga which attracts evil spirits and is very powerful. Since I never heard these things related to music and I love to explore hindustani classical music, I was damn excited about this. Let me tell you a bit about Raag Malkauns before proceeding.
Raaga Malkauns is a mid-night Raaga which has 5 jumping notes and sounds very mystical. technically -
Komal Gandhar(Ga), Komal Dhaivat(dha), Komal Nishad.(Ni) Rishabh(Ri) and Pancham(pa) are not used. Madhyam(Ma) is Shuddha.
More info at:- http://bit.ly/aOGUov
by the way it's not a evil Raaga, it just attracts evil spirits as they say.
The day one of my experience was when I was alone in my duplex flat and my roommate had gone out for his late night group study program with his friends(supposedly). I watched a movie till 1.30 am and then after that I felt why not give this Raaga a shot. I tuned my Swaramandal and setup my Tanpura, heard a sound clip from my music class. All set i started to sing this composition called " Mukh mod mod". Everything was normal i felt great. My house has a very deep acoustic effect and I could literally feel music flowing around me around 3 am. Around 4 am. after a brilliant practice session I decided to go to sleep. I went to my bedroom upstairs, feeling happy and exhausted I dozed off within 2-3 mins. Suddenly a fairly pleasant sound woke me up, the sound of malkauns being played on swaramandal. I thought my brain is playing tricks on me (happens with such an addictive Raaga) , so I ignored it and slept peacefully. When I woke up I discovered my instruments were in the same place I had kept last night, Everything seemed normal until I discovered that I had kept my voice recorder on(I usually record my sessions) and it had recorded the whole night. I put on my headphones and started to listen to that clip to find out whether that sound which I heard was real or maybe m crazy. OMG!!..I discovered that it recorded the similar thing which I heard. I couldn't believe my ears. I called up a friend of mine to make him listen to it and got it verified. spooky!!!
Well I can't really call this the dark side of music but It was life-lasting experience to say the least,. I leave you with this malkauns performance ..Enjoy!!---
Raaga Malkauns is a mid-night Raaga which has 5 jumping notes and sounds very mystical. technically -
Komal Gandhar(Ga), Komal Dhaivat(dha), Komal Nishad.(Ni) Rishabh(Ri) and Pancham(pa) are not used. Madhyam(Ma) is Shuddha.
More info at:- http://bit.ly/aOGUov
by the way it's not a evil Raaga, it just attracts evil spirits as they say.
The day one of my experience was when I was alone in my duplex flat and my roommate had gone out for his late night group study program with his friends(supposedly). I watched a movie till 1.30 am and then after that I felt why not give this Raaga a shot. I tuned my Swaramandal and setup my Tanpura, heard a sound clip from my music class. All set i started to sing this composition called " Mukh mod mod". Everything was normal i felt great. My house has a very deep acoustic effect and I could literally feel music flowing around me around 3 am. Around 4 am. after a brilliant practice session I decided to go to sleep. I went to my bedroom upstairs, feeling happy and exhausted I dozed off within 2-3 mins. Suddenly a fairly pleasant sound woke me up, the sound of malkauns being played on swaramandal. I thought my brain is playing tricks on me (happens with such an addictive Raaga) , so I ignored it and slept peacefully. When I woke up I discovered my instruments were in the same place I had kept last night, Everything seemed normal until I discovered that I had kept my voice recorder on(I usually record my sessions) and it had recorded the whole night. I put on my headphones and started to listen to that clip to find out whether that sound which I heard was real or maybe m crazy. OMG!!..I discovered that it recorded the similar thing which I heard. I couldn't believe my ears. I called up a friend of mine to make him listen to it and got it verified. spooky!!!
Well I can't really call this the dark side of music but It was life-lasting experience to say the least,. I leave you with this malkauns performance ..Enjoy!!---
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Raag Bhairav- Immortal
Bhairav is known to be a very powerful and complete raaga. Why is it called powerful? what do we mean by power here and what is completeness. Well, power here is not symbolic to one we come across in rock and metal music( literally powerful) but the power to express emotions more accurately. It is complete not only because of 7 notes in ascending and descending order, but because of the liberty to include lot of variations while singing or playing. Devotion is the mood associated with raag Bhirav and compositions like "jago mohan pyare" complement this really well. My guruji has been teaching me this raaga since we started, but still he comes up with completely different ways to sing this every next class. It displays the enormous power of human brain to produce creative and unique data.
Technically it is just komal notes in ascending and descending except ga and ni(gandharva and nishad) which are shudh, but these combinations of notes have a mystical power of producing amazingly accurate emotions. Even for displaying anger or strength in hindustani music you do not need to scream hard or show vocal intensity , permutating and combining notes could very well express this. Well I can not express this in words and neither Iam so religious but I really feel conected to the divine whenever I experience this raaga. Immortal indeed!. Listen to this--> http://bit.ly/a3u3Sj
Technically it is just komal notes in ascending and descending except ga and ni(gandharva and nishad) which are shudh, but these combinations of notes have a mystical power of producing amazingly accurate emotions. Even for displaying anger or strength in hindustani music you do not need to scream hard or show vocal intensity , permutating and combining notes could very well express this. Well I can not express this in words and neither Iam so religious but I really feel conected to the divine whenever I experience this raaga. Immortal indeed!. Listen to this--> http://bit.ly/a3u3Sj
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