I got a phone call yesterday from Greece to tell me that the great Shennai player from India, Ustad Bismillah Khan, had died of a heart attack. His health had been bad for a while and his playing had naturally reached it’s peak a few years ago.
The gentle genius of Bismillah Khan is perhaps single [...]
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I got a phone call yesterday from Greece to tell me that the great Shennai player from India, Ustad Bismillah Khan, had died of a heart attack. His health had been bad for a while and his playing had naturally reached it’s peak a few years ago.
The gentle genius of Bismillah Khan is perhaps single [...]
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Footage links below to the recent gig by HLI and Drongomala at the Rainbow, Digbeth in Birmingham. Footage has a blend of daytime messing around aswell. This was a fundraiser for earthquake victims. Camcorder quality sound…..H(B)ollywood please call.
Filmed by MiMi and edited by AntKnee
Part 1 – hanging out and rehearsing
Part 2 – ElectroRaga
Part 3 – [...]
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southmancreporter-electroraga attack Originally uploaded by drongomala.
One of the local newspapers caught on to our little drama at the ElectroRaga dawn gig in Chorlton, Manchester.
Feel free to leave comments on their site….already the rights and wrongs of what we did is being debated….
The article is replete with misquotes and made up [...]
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Malkauns is a dark brooding raga. PLayed late night. (see my article ‘Robert Johnson, The Cross Roads and Malkauns)
This gig like the rest wasn’t agreed…..thing is it wasn’t the authorities we were worried about it was the lawless…..this one was in the red light district of Manchester. Watch out for a cameo by Mick Jagger.
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Malkauns is a dark brooding raga. PLayed late night. (see my article ‘Robert Johnson, The Cross Roads and Malkauns)
This gig like the rest wasn’t agreed…..thing is it wasn’t the authorities we were worried about it was the lawless…..this one was in the red light district of Manchester. Watch out for a cameo by Mick Jagger.
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Yaman Kalyan is an evening raga. We conspired to slip into St Ann’s square and quickly setup as we didn’t have permission to play. We hadn’t counted on the security guards for the stalls nearby – our generator was freaking them out as a fire hazard and me out becuase it wasn’t in the [...]
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Yaman Kalyan is an evening raga. We conspired to slip into St Ann’s square and quickly setup as we didn’t have permission to play. We hadn’t counted on the security guards for the stalls nearby – our generator was freaking them out as a fire hazard and me out becuase it wasn’t in the [...]
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The afternoon concert on the banks of a river….well Castlefield canal in this case…
Bismillah Khan and Ravi Shankar were the dons that I took inspiration from in this raga. Make sure you check out the extra cam footage which has better quality sound and some close up views..
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3 – extra cam footage [...]
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