Originally released in 1994, Classical Indian Ragas from blind sitar master Baluji Shrivastav provides much
of the same sounds that are provided in his other albums for ARC. However, this time around he spices up the mix a bit with ...
A fair album of bansuri music overall, Master of the Indian Bansuri puts Pandit Ronu
Majumdar on a bit of a pedestal, title-wise. Majumdar is a fine flautist, with a very nice tone on the large flute and some exceptional ...
Sharma is a virtuoso of the santur, a hammered dulcimer of a kind found all
the way from western China to Hungary. But he's more than simply a virtuoso player. He's the man who introduced it from the purely folk ...
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, of the famous gharana of dhrupad singers, is one of the few
members of the family to take up instrumentalism. Incidentally, this recording came from the same sessions as that of another Nimbus release, Raga Yaman. He ...
Zia Mohiuddin Daga, who died soon after recording this two-disc set, was a master of
the rudra vina, a large sitar-like instrument which he had modified to produce a more mellow timbre. He is accompanied by Uday Bhwalkar and Yvan ...