Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Brij Narayan

 

LE SARODE DE BRIJ NARAYAN

Prestige de la musique extraeuropéenne l'Inde vol. 3 

THE SAROD OF BRIJ NARAYAN 

Magic of  extraeuropean music India vol. 3

Disques Espérance, 1976, ESP 155 537

From this excellent series this is probably the first album recorded by B. Narayan in France under the aegis of the association ''the Friends of Asia''.
Born in 1952, Brij started to study Hindustani music with his father Ram and his uncle the tabla player Chatur Lal. Here is accompanied by Suresh Talwalkar who was first Ram Narayan's tabla player.
Side A presents the raag Shuddh Todi usually played at dawn while side B has the night raag Kaushi-Kanara. Kanara is a region in India and Kaushi would be a variant of raag Kanada with some characteristics of Malkauns.
Text in French only.

 


 

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