Bansuri

• Artist: Pandit Raghunath Seth
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• Release Date: April 11, 2000
• Total Time: 76:32
• Genre: World

Review

Bansuri offers what is possibly the first available recording of a night raga, the "Raga Rajeshwari," performed by bansuri musician Pandit Raghunath Seth, who once heard it performed by a Karnatik vocalist and was able to reconstruct it after much research. Accompanying the bamboo flutist on this album is tabla player Samir Chatterjee, as well as Michael Harrison and Afrizah Manzella on tanpura. The purvang raga (a raga in which the lower tetrachord is emphasized) is intended for performance after 9 p.m. and is recorded here in four parts. Pandit Seth follows the raga with a kajri, then ends the album with the more open-structured, lighter "Raga Mishra Bhairavi." Recorded in New York City in 1996, the sound quality is fine, and, as always with India Archive Music, the release includes highly educational liner notes (in English). ~ Joslyn Layne, Rovi

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