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songs for peace

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Here's a version of the famous Nadia by Nitin Sawhney - a song that I love to pieces! This recording was the result of a late night jam at Krimson Avenue Studios to try out a new microphone and it was recorded in one go with minimal work on it post recording. Happy listening! Lovely work as always by Prithvi Chandrasekhar on this track. Thanks PC!

Nadia - Krimson Blend Jam

Album: The Hidden
Performance: Aditya Prakash Ensemble
Composition/Arrangement: Aditya Prakash
Lyrics: Saint Gorakhnath (11th Century)

"Hasiba Kheliba" - The Hidden (Album)- APE

Nescafe Basement, Tere Ishq Mein

Aditya Prakash- Vocals
Sheela Bringi- Harp/Vocals
Produced by Vaidya Mishra

Mantra for Peace

The idea behind this song is the struggle between the comforting memory of past love and the agonizing reality of desolateness. Of how our mind can create a beautiful world made from past memories to hide the sorrow of the present. The memory of true Love is our last breath holding on to this life. 

Aditya Prakash- Vocals
Julian Le- Piano
Owen Clapp- Upright Bass
Allakoi "Mic Holden" Peete- Percussion (Tycoon Percussion)
Colin McDaniel- Drums
Neelamjit Dhillon- Tabla

Recorded at Stagg Street Studios
Mixed by Ramin Sakurai

Love's Last Breath - APEnsemble

Pilgrimage + Breath Control (Mashup)

In 1978 ISKCON produced and released an album featuring the renowned singer Lakshmi Shankar performing several classic songs composed and sung by the 15th century Princess and Saint Mirabai also known as Princess Meera.

Rescued from an old 1970s audio cassette this Gem is a true treasure of historic and artistic excellence. The singer, late Lakshmi Shankar, was a noted Hindustani classical vocalist of the Patiala Gharana. She was known for her performances of khyal, thumri, and bhajans. She was the sister-in-law of sitar player Ravi Shankar and the mother-in-law of violinist L. Subramaniam, the father of Gingger Shankar.

In a world of popular music Mirabai is one fo the world's greatest. Even today, 500 years after she wrote them, her songs are widely sung and recorded and sell millions.

Mirabai (Meera) was a Rajput princess born in about 1498 in Kudaki, Rajasthan.  She later became a renowned as a Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna. She was one of the most significant Sants ("true" or "saints") of the Vaishnava bhakti movement. Some 1,300 pads (poems) commonly known as bhajans (sacred songs) are attributed to her. These are popular throughout India and have been translated and published worldwide. In the bhakti tradition, they are in passionate praise of Lord Krishna. In most of her poems, she describes her unconditional love for her Lord and promotes Krishna bhakti as the best way of life because it helps us forget our desires.

Meera's love for Krishna was at first a private thing but at some moments it overflowed into an ecstasy that led her to sing and dance in public with others who shared her religious zeal. She would quietly leave the Chittor fort at night and join Satsangs (religious get-togethers) in the town below. 

Now hear some of those beautiful poems of love and devotion. Enjoy!

(Please note that there are slight defects in the audio track and thus you will experience a couple sound distortions during playback.) 

The Eternal Poetry of Princess Mirabai - The Voice of the Great Lakshmi Shankar

Part 1 Interview of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan conducted by Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta for A.I.R.  This interview took place in Kolkata circa 1980's.  This is one of the thousands of recordings from the new Ali Akbar Khan Library.  For more info on the AAK Library go to http://www.aliakbarkhanlibrary.com 

Maestro Ali Akbar Khan interviewed by Pt. Buddhadev Das Gupta Part 1

B. Ananthakrishnan- Violin
Praveen Kumar- Mridangam
Chandrasekara Sharma- Ghatam

Virutam- Kannanai Pani Maname

Krishna Parthasarathy- Violin
Rohan Krishnamurthy- Mridangam

Song prefaced by Virutam taken from Bala Mukhundaashtakam written by Adi Shankaracharya

Live concert in Dallas, TX, March 15, 2015.

Jagadodharana- Kapi- Aditya Prakash

Aditya Prakash - Vocals / Arrangement
Julian Le - Piano / Arrangement
Brijesh Pandya - Drums
Owen Clapp - Bass
Misha Shapiro - String Section
Shiva Ramamurthi - Indian classical violin
Neelamjit Dhillon - Tabla

Recorded by Julian Le at Pluto Enterprises (LejKeys)
Mixed and Mastered by Nick DePinna

Lyrics - Aditya Prakash
Hindi Translation - Vaidya Mishra


Song To Dad - Aditya Prakash Ensemble

This was a recording of raga karaharapriya that I had played I suppose more than three years back. I think I can play better now but felt some of the phrasings that I did play in this were quite decent enough to be shared with all of you... so here you go.... a breeze of Karaharapriya (in the same lines of https://soundcloud.com/indian_music_fan_2/arabhi) forgive any flaws etc.. :)

A breeze of Karaharapriya

Mir Mukhtiyar Ali was born on the 1st of August 1972 in a small village called Pugal on the North West frontier of India in the state of Rajasthan. He is from the semi-nomadic Mirasi Community which hails from the Thar Desert. Mukhtiyar represents the 26th generation of this humble community which has successfully kept alive the oral tradition of Sufiana Qalam.

Contact Details of Mukhtiyar Ali :
Mir Mukhtiyar ali
S/O Vasaye khan,
W.No.10, Mirasiyon ka
mohlla,
Pugal, Bikaner District,
Rajasthan
Mobile: +91 9413106911, +91 9636694964
Email: mirmukhtiyar@gmail.com

Chadariya Jheeni Re Jheeni - Mukhtiyar Ali

Guru Kripanjana Payo
In this bhajan Saint Kabir says "First and foremost seek the grace of the Guru to realize God within you and all around you"

Aditya Prakash - Vocals
Sheela Bringi - Harp
Salar Nader - Tabla
Malini Taneja - Karthal
Ramin Sakurai - Recording Engineer
Mixed by Ramin Sakurai at PrismTone

Kabir Bhajan

RAVI SHANKAR  1

From the album Shoshan.
Music Composed, arranged and produced by: Shye Ben Tzur
Recorded by: Nick Atkins
Mixed by: Yotam Agam
Released by: Earthsync
Urdu Poetry by : Hazrat Nawab Khadim Hasan Gudri Shaha Baba 3rd. From Ajmer.
More on the poetry and life of the  sufi saint check out:  www.sufiajmer.net



Dil Ke Bahar

Pandit Tejendra Majumdar – Sarod
Pandit Kumar Bose – Tabla

Tejendra Majumdar makes the sarod - the most majestic sounding of Indian instruments
– sparkle. He plays with delicacy and emotional maturity to create a breathtakingly beautiful sound. He is accompanied by the larger than life Pandit Kumar Bose, the torchbearer of the Benaras gharana.

“…unquestionably one of the great maestros of the sarod.” L.A. Times