This piece is the romantic prelude from a forthcoming suite of pieces dedicated to the Raags of Thaat Bhairav in Open D major tuning.

Ramakli is a special and fairly rare raga of this exotic thaat which is based around the Double Harmonic Major Scale incorporating "bluesy" melodic sequences with the tritone, flat sixth and minor 7th often returning to the fifth. The compositional process is attempt to develop this sequence and resolve it along the lines of the Spanish classical guitar romance composers I admire: Carcassi, Kleynjans, etc. Ramkali is said to evoke a passionate longing that is unquenchable in it's thirst.

This was performed on my Larrivee P-03QM steel string parlor acoustic and recorded in January of 2022. The master of this track is a bit more snappy than the one on my bandcamp.

Ramkali Romance - Open D major

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Ramkali Romance - Open D major

Perry Brooks Nichols