Sitar and Meditation Music

Ravi ragas

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Nomad Mind

Sitar Music

Roots of India

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A collection of remixes from the past few years.

released March 5, 2021

Cover art: Aeonic Design

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Kaya Project (Kalya Remix)

Forest Raga (borracheira remix) :) (native american flute : aviv agami )

After the early experimental electronic tracks (1966-1970) I had a trip to India where I bought a sitar which I tried to play by teaching myself, listening to tracks of Ravi Shankar.
On this track (around 1971 - 1972) you can hear the same friend play bass that I did the electronic tracks with...

Sorry for the sound quality issues, it's antique..

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Raga Berlinga Reloaded (1972)

indian drone nature meditation ambient mellow sounds

Indian Nature/Sitar Vibrations Meditation Music

Ravi Shankar

Listening to Joy of Life is a soul-stirring experience. Each cut is an intricate blend of haunting vocals, violin, guitar and subtle ethereal percussion dancing beautifully with Karunesh's masterful devotional flute melodies. Appropriately titled, this is spiritual jammin' at its best. Inspiring.

Morning Celebration

Recording of a sitarperformance by Nicolas Mortelmans on Radio Scorpio, Belgium 14 - 05 - 2014 (Raga Bhairagi).

www.nicolasmortelmans.com

Nicolas Mortelmans - Raga Bhairagi

Indian Classical Music Ensemble - Hari Om

Jugalbandi - Pandit Ravi Shankar And Yehudi Menuhin.

Om Meditation with C# 136hz being the dominant key of this meditation.


From my own personal experience I subscribe to the paradigm that we're all bodies of Quantum harmonic capabilities.  Mantras being a key part to oscillating with the energy of the Chakra.

Namaste'

OM - TUVAN - MANTRA - C# 136hz

RAVI SHANKAR  1

Not from me. Music for meditation and relaxation.

youtu.be/_wCgQcC0-eM

Deep Trance Shamanic Throat Singing for Meditation

This music you can hear everyday from Srila Prabhupada samadhi after mangalarati

Mayapur Morning raga

In the late November days we remember death, and especially the death of our loved ones.
This sitar music is to express some of the pain I felt after my mother passed away.
(Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted !)

Mourning Raga

Classical Indian - Bhatiyali Dhun

Classical Indian - Raga Shudh Sarang

Classical Indian - Raga Durga

"Ultimate Reality"
We greet you
In you the whole Universe is held together
Your life fills every nucleus that has ever been created
You dwell in our flesh and bones...

The diya, or Indian oil lamp, a symbol of worship,
is floated on the Ganges river early in the morning.
The vastness and power of the swollen river
is a reflection of God who created it.

Not far from this tranquil scene,
just up from the river's edge,
there is a deep well called the Lolark Kund
whose stone steps form the shape of a cross.
It remains closed, except for one day in the year.

On this day, thousands of married couples
in their last hope to be granted a child by God,
descend the steps together
break their glass wedding bangles,
throw off all visible signs of their marriage,
and plunge five times into the claustrophobic waters.
They emerge and remove the drenched and cursed clothing,
changing into new clothes and climbing the steps with renewed hope.

This is worship.
To be content, but to also weep with longing.

God embraces us in either case

NAMASTE SATE´

Namaste Saté

Hang by Joakin Lopez in varanasi
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Didj - Yass

keyboards, fx, recordings - Tikki Masala

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www.tikkimasala.wix.com/tikkimasala
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track available on iTunes 
and on 
https://tikkimasala1.bandcamp.com/album/mystical-realms



Full Discography also available on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/18kmBPrnYJRXfuxAq3QLum

Mahadev in Sanskrit (Joakin Lopez Hang) (Mystical Realms)

On Dec, 11, 2012, The GodFather of Sitar & WorldMusic left this world's stage to play with the heavenly orchestra. This is a little tribute to him who was an inspiration to so many, and to me to get hold of a sitar & try to play it. May he live & be blessed forever...

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/weekend/ci_22187123/steve-smith-springsteen-gaga-black-keys-join-stones

"Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar, who was responsible for bringing classical Indian music to the masses in the Western world via Beatle George Harrison's interest in Shankar, his instrument and his Hindu religion, died at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla last week. He was 92.

Shankar had been given heart-valve replacement surgery. A message on his website said, "Though the surgery was successful, recovery proved too difficult for the 92-year-old musician."

The three-time Grammy winner's final performance was Nov. 4 in Long Beach; it was a celebration of his 10th decade in music.

In 1952, Shankar began a musical collaboration with Western classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin but their work, while highly lauded, didn't bring about mass exposure to a Western audience. That would come a decade-and-a-half later.

In 1965, Harrison developed a fascination with the sitar and Indian music. The Beatle bought a secondhand sitar in a London shop and improvised a sitar part on John Lennon's "Norwegian Wood," marking the first time the instrument was used in a Western pop song (months earlier, The Yardbirds recorded a version of their hit, "Heart Full of Soul," with a sitar as the lead instrument, but that version wasn't released until much later).

In June 1966, Harrison met Shankar and asked to be his student. Shankar accepted. Interest in the sitar and other Indian instruments and the music spread through rock music like a wildfire.

His appearance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival provided his introduction to a young generation of music fans eager for diverse sounds and blending of musical forms. He also performed at Woodstock and in August 1971, he convinced his friend Harrison to stage rock music's first major benefit, the Concert for Bangladesh, that raised international awareness of the plight of refugees following a devastating cyclone and civil war in the south Asian nation. Shankar opened the two concerts (afternoon and evening) at Madison Square Garden.

Eventually, Shankar became mostly critical of rock's incorporation of the sitar because of its connection to drugs. He and Harrison remained the best of friends and collaborated often until Harrison's death from lung cancer in Los Angeles in November 2001. Harrison was 58.

Among Shankar's survivors are his wife Sukanya and two daughters, acclaimed sitar player Anoushka Shankar Wright, whose husband, Joe Wright, directed the recently released film, "Anna Karenina," and Shankar-Wright's half-sister, adult contemporary singer-songwriter Norah Jones."

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Ode to Ravi Shankar (who was my inspiration to try & play sitar), 12.12.12 (Free DL + Videolink)

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar - Shiva Manas Puja

Ravi Shankar and John Matarazzo join energies on a transcendental trip; drifting down the Ganges on a mind elevating meditational journey to the sacred place of Ravi Shankar’s birth. The legendary city of Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges river. The mesmerizing sound of the sitar and electronica create a deep Delta state of relaxation. Alpha and Theta wave themes combine to create a state of visualization and deep meditation. Beta and Gamma wave tracks are created to inspire and generate  cognition and concentration. A perfect mix for the Yoga practitioner.

Varanasi Voyage (Logical Drift remixes Ravi Shankar) /// "Karmady"

Ravi Shankar and John Matarazzo join energies on a transcendental trip; drifting down the Ganges on a mind elevating meditational journey to the sacred place of Ravi Shankar’s birth. The legendary city of Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges river. The mesmerizing sound of the sitar and electronica create a deep Delta state of relaxation. Alpha and Theta wave themes combine to create a state of visualization and deep meditation. Beta and Gamma wave tracks are created to inspire and generate cognition and concentration. A perfect mix for the Yoga practitioner.

Varanasi Voyage (Logical Drift remixes Ravi Shankar) /// "Swashtha"

Ustad Ali Akbar & Pt. Ravi Shankar - sarod & sitar - des

Soothing and relaxing Sitar music by Nikhil Patwardhan. 

Raag Kedar Alaap and Jod.

Relaxing Sitar music Nikhil Patwardhan

Sri Anirban Ghosh has been taking training from Pandit Manilal Nag of Bishnupur gharana for the last two decades. Sri Ghosh has started his early learning from his mother Late Smt. Snehalata Ghosh who was a student of Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan.

Sitar (Raag: Madhubanti, Taal: Chartal ki sawari) by Anirban Ghosh

Eastern Winds

Having started off as a drummer in a PopRock Coverband, passing through the eXPerimental & psychedelic stages of music of the 1970s, arrived in the New Millennium as a percussionist in the Berlin Band "Los Multikultis", privileged to play alongside brilliant musicians like Colin Bass of the Band "CAMEL", I now mainly produce WorldFusion music in my home studio in Berlin, Germany   
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I'm a Hobby Musician (various drums, sitar, guitar, vox, plus now VST's & loops), Sound- & ComputerEngineer from Berlin/Germany.
Initially having been somewhat forced to "enjoy" a musical education of sorts as a child (playing sheet music on a recorder) I really started enjoying music with the appearance of The Beatles. So I started off my "career" as a drummer in the mid - 1960s here:

http://soundcloud.com/blackbirds-berlin/sets/the-blackbirds-live-on-stage/
 
After the Band dissolved, and inspired by the upcoming of psychedelic & electronic music I got into SoundExperiments together with the BassMan of our group. Of course, there is no way these can compare to the intricate "symphonies" being created nowadays in the age of computer music.

http://soundcloud.com/experimentator/sets/experimental-sounds-of-the-1960s/

Further following the path of The Beatles, esp. George Harrison, I travelled to India in 1971, getting myself a Sitar there, and upon my return trying to teach myself to play on it:

http://soundcloud.com/experimentator/sets/sitar-music

Later I found out that I also was able to sing, and so I also learned some Guitar playing

http://soundcloud.com/experimentator/sets/vocals-28/

In the mid-1990's I met my friend the BassMan again who had moved to Bavaria and joined another Band. The "Bavarian Power Jam" Session came about very spontaneously around 1995. Credits for anything but drumming go to http://www.dbusk.de

http://soundcloud.com/experimentator/sets/bavarian-power-jam/

Now, having seen the vast possibilities at hand, I have got into "it" again...and with a little help from my newly found and amazingly lovely SoundCloud & FaceBook friends I feel I could succeed...

http://soundcloud.com/experimentator/sets/new-stuff-2011-3/

Mourning Raga

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