sent me right where I wanted to be, You always do that to me!

so soothing :) Well done Thomas! Beautiful Thank you for Sharing

I found that "drop D tune" of guitar might fit to this:))

This is amazing! It's great that you were allowed to record his performance, and thank you for sharing. :-)

Amazing! What a treat to hear this unique recording. Thank you for sharing! :)

Do you happen to remember who the accompanists were? Tabla sure sounds like Shashikant Mulye ji.

GRK_HINDUSTANI

Ram kahiye Ram japiye Bhimsen joshi

Pentatonic night time raga. Played with the tonic in E, the other notes are G, A, C, and D.

Raga Malkauns Alap On Bansuri in E

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It's really difficult to communicate what a very unique opportunity it was to make this recording. It's quite different, but this is in the direction of going to Pavarotti and asking him "May I record your performance?" It took A LOT of persuasion to get those arranging the concert to ask him if it was OK to record his performance. "No, no! He will be very angry!" Finally they asked and he said OK, if I just get a copy myself. So here he is, one of the very best singers in the history of Indian Classical Music. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhimsen_Joshi  and there are plenty of videos on YouTube

This is MAGIC if you have the patience to follow the flow in the slow "introduction"

Absolutely Unique Recording: Indian "Vocalist" Bhimsen Joshi 1

words by lady gaby and beats by Curtis Bila-Günther 

Lady Gaby Who Am I

This is the Part II of a Three Part Composition I’ve working on the mammoth Ibis Trilogy from writer Amitav Ghosh. The first was "Sea of Poppies" which I created and uploaded here on SC 3 years back … recently I finished the second "The River of Smoke". Hope you enjoy listening to it as I did making it! By the way the Chinese section of the composition is centered around a loop used from the GarageBand Collection. 

River of Smoke is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh. It is the second volume of the Ibis trilogy. The novel has a rich tapestry of characters from various cultural and geographical backgrounds whose common interest is trade (mostly opium) in China. The story is set in Canton’s Fanqui-Town, a small strip of land used by foreigners to trade with local Chinese traders, a year before the first opium war. The plot evolves around three ships off the coast of Canton, in the year 1838. The Anahita, owned by Bahram Modi, a Parsi opium trader from Bombay, the Redruth, owned by Fitcher Penrose, on an expedition to collect rare species of plants from China and the Ibis (from Sea of Poppies, the first book of the trilogy) carrying two convicts Neel Rattan, a Bengali Zamindar and Ah Fatt a criminal from Canton. The story traces the lives of these principal characters in Canton. Bahram Modi an opium trader from Bombay, carries out successful expeditions to China and creates considerable wealth. Bahram also has a son Ah Fatt through a Chinese boat woman, unknown to his family back in Bombay. Fitcher Penrose, a botanist, is on an expedition to China to collect rare plants. He is joined by Paulette Lambert, daughter of a French botanist, in his search for the rare Golden camellias. Neel and Ah Fat have escaped from Ibis and they meet Bahram Modi, Ah Fat's father. Neel joins Bahram's as his Munshi ... 

All these rich tapestry of characters from various cultural and geographical backgrounds converge in Fanqui-Town, a tumultuous world unto it­self where civilizations clash and sometimes fuse. It is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars. Spectacular coincidences, startling re­versals of fortune, and tender love stories abound. But this is much more than an irresistible page-turner. The blind quest for money, the primacy of the drug trade, the concealment of base impulses behind the rhetoric of freedom: in River of Smoke is a consuming historical novel with powerful contemporary reso­nance. Writer Amitav Ghosh continues the epic that has charmed and enthralled readers all over the globe.
Happy Listening :)      

River Of Smoke

Allow your heart the chance to drift away with your soul & dance among the stars in distant galaxies.
Much Love & Light

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Great fun with one of the descending minor scales.....the second half is mostly electric dulcimer lead with the noter (the stick that slides up and down the fretboard to give a nice "portamento" effect). Flower Photo by Steven K. Smith.

Absolutely Unique Recording: Indian "Vocalist" Bhimsen Joshi 1

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