Category Archives: Music
The Music of Friedrich Nietzsche
The Music Of Friedrich Nietzsche (1991) | Full Album | Published on Jul 31, 2012 Tracklist 01. Allegro – 0:00 02. Hoch Tut Euch Auf – 2:30 03. Einleitung – 4:46 04. Phantasie – 6:10 05. Miserere – 7:50 06. Einleitung – 14:10 07. Einleitung – 15:30 08. Hüter, ist die Nacht Bald Hin? – 17:40 09. Presto – 18:50 10. Mein Platz Vor […]
Poland–Pakistan: Sounds from two continents
Update – 11 March 2013: Full music CD “Poland-Pakistan: Sounds from two Continents” is available for free download. I would like to share two tracks from our pleasant collaboration with two Polish musicians/friends in November 2012. It was a great experience in very limited time: less than five days for rehearsals, concerts, recordings. The following […]
Murali – Jai Ram Jogi
Murali: Jai Ram Jogi | Harmonium: Altaf Ali | Tabla: Mohammad Ajmal Recording: James Stephens | Arrangement: Umair Jaffar | Date: 11 April 2012 This video was shot by Taimur Khan for iPAC Pakistan with an iPOD touch. ipac.org.pk | facebook.com/ipac.pakistan
The Seventh Spring
Aftab Datta had promptly uploaded the following gems from his collection for the seventh anniversary of sarangi.info, and I am responsible for the tardiness of this post. Emerson says in Spiritual Laws, “If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? […]
Raag Nat Bhairav – Taimur Khan
25 November 2011 | Sarangi: Taimur Khan | Tabla: Sarfaraz Anwar | Venue: Kuch Khaas| Organization: IPAC
sarangi turns seven
{233,10}* dauRe hai phir har ek gul-o-laalah par khayaal .sad gulsitaaN nigaah kaa saamaaN kiye hu’e again thought runs on every single rose and tulip having made a hundred gardens measures for the gaze On this pleasant occasion, we want to thank all the friends and visitors of sarangi.info for their contributions, comments, appreciation and […]
Music training for the development of auditory skills
Music training for the development of auditory skills – Nina Kraus and Bharath Chandrasekaran Source: Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern University School of Communication
Sultan Khan (1940 – 2011) – Raag Sehra
Dr. Kashyap Dave has kindly shared the following recording and comments: Raag Sehra by Ustad Sultan Khan on sarangi: a tribute to my teacher Ustad Sultan Khan. This is the name given by him to this raag from the forbidden scale. Once he recorded this for radio & asked to cancel it saying it is […]
Aftab Equinox
{169,10} lutf-e khiraam-e saaqii-o-zauq-e sadaa-e chang yih jannat-e nigaah vuh firdaus-e gosh hai the grace of the Cupbearear’s gait, and the relish of the lute’s sound this is a heaven of the eye; that, a paradise of the ear This music has been generously shared by Aftab Datta: it is the peculiar good fortune of […]
mudd’a anqa hai apne aalam-e taqrir ka – Ghalib
Anqa: A bird from Arabic story tradition, whose single defining trait is his not-there-ness. Whenever you try to catch him, he’s gone. — Frances Pritchett For a detailed discussion of this ghazal, please visit Frances Pritchett’s site.
Raag Ramkali – Taimur Khan
Raag Ramkali – 9 July 2011 Sarangi: Taimur Khan | Tabla: Muhammad Ajmal | Surmandal: Suhaib Kiani Venue: Kuch Khaas, Islamabad, Pakistan An iPhone Production by Fawad Khan
Sarangi at Kuch Khaas
Raag Jaijaivanti [download] | Sarangi: Taimur Khan | Tabla: Muhammad Ajmal | 9 July 2011 | Venue: Kuch Khaas Photos: Courtesy of Umair Jaffar, IPAC Pakistan
Folk Music of Our Lands
I attended a folk music event arranged by Umair Jaffar of IPAC Pakistan at Kuch Khaas. More than twenty folk artists were invited for a discussion of the challenges they face in the pursuit of music – a passion, profession and tradition at once, for all of them as I could hear in their heartfelt […]
Theremin & Chesnokov
I discovered the theremin yesterday via Aftab Datta and Chesnokov today via Michael Polevoy. The theremin, originally known as the aetherphone/etherophone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. The […]
Bach for Breakfast – Flute Sonata in G minor
C. P. E. Bach – Sonata for Flute in G minor, BWV 1020, 1st mvt Allegro; Flute, Harp, Cello [download file] We first came across this piece quite by accident when I asked a friend to download some harp music on his desktop. I’ve had the most soothing associations with it for over a decade. […]
Soona Soona Jeewan Apna – Alamgir
Somehow, came across it for the first time the day Moin Akhtar died.
Aftab’s Spring 2011 Collection
The Mughal Prince Dara Shikuh (1615-59 CE), the eldest and favourite son of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal, was profoundly interested in mysticism and his writings centre on Sufi topics and poetry. A noted patron of the arts and calligraphy, the prince presented his wife with an album of paintings and calligraphy now known as […]
The Duduk and its Music
Dle Yaman – Isabel Bayrakdarian and the Minassian Duduk Quartet (2004) In 2005, UNESCO proclaimed the Armenian duduk music as a “Masterpiece of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity.” Armenian musicologists site evidence of the duduk’s use as early as 1200 BC, though Western scholars suggest it is 1,500 years old. Variants of the duduk can […]
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