Tagged: hindustani classical

LATIHAN and PRAYER with AMANO MANISH

In 2000, at the Osho Commune in Pune, I was lucky enough to engineer and record this music, composed by Amano Manish, for live ‘Mahamudra’ meditation. The two long tracks feature Manish Vyas on keyboards and Bikramjit Singh on bansuri. Supporting musicians were Murti on...

Ragas Relax 2

Sarod and guitar duets in the time of Coronavirus lockdown. Twelve duets between my Indian stringed instrument sarod and Spanish classical guitar. Each melody is based on a classical Indian raga scale, with chords on the guitar formed only from the same notes used in...

Karma Circles/Fragrance of the East

A compilation of highlights from ‘Karma Circles’ (2003) and ‘Fragrance of the East’ (2005) Spotify Apple Music Amazon “In India a profound musical moment will be greeted by spontaneous outbursts of “WAH!” from the audience. WAH is wow, deep appreciation and an expression of being...

Yoga Lounge

A privilege to record with India’s famous sitarist Niladri Kumar Spotify Apple Music Amazon Musicians Chinmaya Dunster: keyboards, bass, programmingNiladri Kumar: sitarBikram Singh: fluteAvinash Jagtap: violinKalyan Mitto: celloPreman Tilsen: bassoon Track 1: Bhairavi Track 2: Jhinjhoti Track 3: Coming Home Track 4: Yogabeat Track 5:...

BUDDHA MOON

Four long tracks of meditative Indian classical fusion, co-composed with Bikram Singh and Avinash Jagtap Apple Music Amazon Spotify Musicians Chinmaya Dunster: sarodBikkram Singh: bamboo fluteAmano Manish: Indian slide guitarKarunesh: claypot / production “Another wonderful meditation CD from New Earth Records, Buddha Moon was recorded...

MYSTIC POETS OF INDIA

Spotify Apple Music Amazon Many of the great mystics of India found their way to express the inexpressible through song. While we have their words, we can’t know what melodies they sang them to, so Sandeep Srivastav has composed melodies based on the Indian raga...

MEDITATION RAGAS

Soulful explorations on the sarod of Indian ragas blended with Western chords and instrumentation. Spotify Apple Music Amazon Tracks based on seven sense meditations taken from the ancient Indian text: Vigyan Bhairav Tantr Video of Track 2 ‘Touch Meditation’ includes:When Open Sky Is Wide Awake...

Ragas Relax

Over 30 million streams on Spotify Spotify Amazon Apple Music In this CD, Chinmaya Dunster explores five traditional Ragas in an ‘alaap’ form – pure, directionless wanderings within the ragas structure but without the distractions of rhythm or fixed melody. With the simplicity of the...

Voyaging on the ‘Good Ship’ Sarod 1979 to 2018

Amjad Ali Khan’s Outdoor Concert. Delhi, April 1979 I sit myself near the front in a massive marquee set up in a park, crowded with folk eating, gossiping, taking care of noisy children and in between times paying attention to the music. I’m only here...