All music created & curated by Ustad Rama Cheugy, CHID, & Jah Bozo
Released into the digital ether by Team Otaku

Jah Bozo & Udio

Ustad Rama Cheugy & CHID - "Bye-Bye Mamma Mumbai Bye-Bye"

Ustad Rama Cheugy & CHID - "Shraddha" (Live @ The Bollywood Bowl)

Ustad Rama Cheugy & CHID - "Intestinal Turmoil @ Café Krishna"

This brilliant album from the Maihar gharana sitarist Nikhil Banerjee, featuring his extraordinary free-flowing mastery of melody and rhythm, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2020/09/india-inde-nikhil-banerjee-raga-soheni.html

His Master's Voice – EASD 1377

Nikhil Banerjee (Sitar)– Raga Soheni (1972)

The second half of a radio conversation between Sanjeev Ramabhadran and composer R.M. Menon about their original collaboration "Kaise Tujhko" (lyrics by poet Abhishek Shukla).

Swaraanjali - "Kaise Tujhko" - SecondHalf

The first half of a radio conversation between Sanjeev Ramabhadran and composer R.M. Menon about their original collaboration "Kaise Tujhko" (lyrics by poet Abhishek Shukla).

Swaraanjali - "Kaise Tujhko" - FirstHalf

This first LP by the great sarangi master released in 1955, featuring abstract and sensuous flights with the bowed instrument’s rich earthy sonorities, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/09/india-inde-ram-narayan-plays-sarangi.html

Ram Narayan – Plays Sarangi – Solomon's Mines – SME 4

Ram Narayan – Plays Sarangi – Raga Asavar / Raga Des – Solomon's Mines – SME 4

Immerse yourself in the timeless beauty of classical Urdu music with this soulful track. Rooted in rich tradition, the song blends captivating poetry with melodic intricacies, evoking deep emotions and a sense of nostalgia. Perfect for lovers of Ghazal, Sufi, and classical Eastern music.

o Jany waly

Bansuri (Classical Indian Flute) / Tanpura (8m bass strings) / Electronic Tabla

Raga Puriya Kalyan

Releasing during the annual celebration of Navratri, the 9-nights of celebrating the divine feminine in Hindu traditions, this track honors Adi Parashakti, the supreme Goddess of Shaktism. Mahadevi, in her many forms, from Durga, to Lakshmi, to Saraswati, is the Primordial Prakriti, the prana that exists within all of us - within all matter. Allow the shakti energy to flow through your system of nadis and cycle through the chakras centers as it awakens the Kundalini naga fire within you.

The three main instruments you hear in this track are the sitar, the tabla (hand drums), and the bansuri flute - staples of traditional Hindustani and Carnatic folk music of India.

Consider meditating on the Tripura sundari Sri yantra, the cover art to this track, while listening to it. Yantra literally means "machine", a geometrical manifestation of her energy that is thousands of years old - a portal through which one can evoke the deity within.

The 4 upright triangles in the Yantra represent Shiva, Shakti's consort, while the 5 inverted ones represent Shakti -- in her traditional 5 forms of Panchaprakriti. Some believe all other Yantras derive from this one, the Sri yantra, and it is thought to bring peace, prosperity, harmony, and many other things to the initiate.

Namaskaram!

Shakti

Ustad Rama Cheugy is both a violinist and composer of the Classical Hindustani tradition and an experimental electronic producer. As the oldest son of one of India's oldest musical families, Cheugy was expected to continue the family's strictly traditional Classical persuits. Instead he chose to attend KM Music Conservatory in his home city of Mumbai to supplement his foundational Classical training with an education in Western music and music technology and production. Incensed by the young man's decision, his family litigated to prevent him using the family name lest the scourge of electronic music bring furthur shame upon them. He owned his family's vocal and spiteful criticisms by adopting the name "Cheugy", meaning someone who reaches beyond his abilities in order to impress others, but ends up making a fool of himself; also "the opposite of trendy", or "trying too hard with the trends". While at KMMC, Cheugy established CHID with classmates, incorporating an electric string quintet (each instrument MIDI-mapped), vocals, tablas, percussion, V-Drums, and a tower of processing and sequencing equipment. An anacronym for the Classical Hindustani Industrial Dubstep that the band produces, CHID (छिद्) is also a sanskrit word, meaning cut off, amputate, chop, split, destroy, annihilate - an appropriate name, considering the assault on the senses that is their music.

CHID makes no attempt to please anyone but themselves. If their punk/metal/jackhammer aesthetic is pleasing to you, then enjoy! If not, then go in peace.

All music created & curated by Ustad Rama Cheugy & Jah Bozo
Released into the digital ether by Team Otaku

Aleksis is an American videogame composer from Greenville, North Carolina. While she is a multi-genre composer, Aleksis specializes in writing orchestral and ambient music for dark fantasy and horror games. She has composed for Memento Mori Games' "INSOMNIA", Grafixia Studio's "MENTAL: The Dark Night", A.V. Dossow's "Pinocchiogoria", and Ecilla's "Sanity Check".

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