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.
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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!!---