Filmed and recorded live in Mulshi, Maharashtra in 2017

Musicians:
- Supreet Deshpande (tabla)
- Milind Kulkarni (harmonium)

Tabla solo in Teental

This short tabla solo was filmed and recorded live in Mulshi, Maharashtra in the colonnaded patio of a sprawling farmhouse. Tabla virtuoso Supr...

Shot and recorded live in Kolkata at the 300-year-old heritage property, Bawali Rajbari.

Musician:
- Indrani Mukherjee (vocal)

Raag Bhairav; Thaat: Bhairav; Samay: Morning

In the Hindu pantheon of gods, Bhairav is another name for Lord Shiva – the temperamental deity of unprecedented destructi...

Filmed and recorded live at the Bawali Rajbari, Kolkata, India in 2017.

Musician:
- Omkar Dadarkar (khayal)

Raag Ramkali; Thaat: Bhairav; Samay: Morning

Ramkali is an early morning raga, often associated with Sikh devotional cultures. Many Sikh saints have set 'shabads' (spiritual verses) to t...

Filmed and recorded live in Bangalore, India.

Musician:
- Jayanthi Kumaresh (veena)

Alapana and Tanam in Raga Karnataka Suddha Saveri

Bharatnatyam exponent and musicologist Vidya Bhavani Suresh describes Raga Karnataka Suddha Saveri as one of the rare ragas in Carnatic music. In her book ‘50 R...

Born out of the parent scale Kafi, Raag Shahana is an upper-tetra chord dominant raga that draws its haunting strains from Bhimpalasi and Bageshree. The Darbar team filmed Anupama Bhagwat in an isolated outdoor location in Bangalore, India, playing this midnight raga. Bhagwat plays the jod, a sec...

Filmed and recorded live at Bawali Rajbari, Kolkata, India.

Musicians:
- Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee (sitar)

Raag Yaman Kalyan, Thaat: Kalyan, Samay: early evening

Raag Yaman Kalyan is a combination of Raag Yaman and its parent scale Kalyan. Although shudh Ma is not used in both Raag Yaman...

Recorded live at the Bawali Rajbari, Kolkata

Musicians:
- Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee (sitar)
- Soumen Nandy (tabla)

Raag Hameer, Thaat: Kalyan, Samay: early evening

Shot in an opulent heritage palace in Bawali located about 35 kilometres outside the periphery of Kolkata, this video seeks t...

Recorded at Darbar in 2017, at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu

Musician:
- Neyveli B. Venkatesh (mridangam)

Solo in Adi Talam

Some consider the mridangam to have mythic origins. It is said to have been played during Lord Shiva’s tandav – a dance form that signifies the destruction and creation of...

Filmed and recorded live at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu

Musician:
- Shashank Subramanyam (flute)

Ragam tanam in Raga Nasikabhushani

A devotional raga in spirit, Raga Nasikabhushani is a ‘vivadi’ or a dissonant melodic scale that has been scantily used in Carnatic compositions. Against the cra...

Filmed and recorded live at Mulshi, Maharashtra

Musicians:
- Ramakant Gaikwad (khayal)
- Ramkrishna Karambelkar (tabla)
- Abhinay Laxmikant Ravonde (harmonium)
- Gayatri Gaikwad & Dr. Aparna Shenoy (tanpuras)

Raag Marwa, Thaat: Marwa, Samay: sunset

Recorded live against the stunning, rugg...

Filmed on location in India at the Bawali Rajbari, Kolkata, in 2017.

Musician:
- Omkar Dadarkar

Raag Patdeep; Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Afternoon

Raag Patdeep comes from the same family as Bhimpalasi and retains its heady melodic appeal. In addition, it draws heavily upon the characteristics of Dha...

Filmed and recorded live at Bawali Rajbari, Kolkata, in 2017.

Musicians
- Ram Kumar Mallick (vocal)
- Samit Mallick (vocal)

Raag Bhoop Kalyan, Thaat: Kalyan, Samay: Evening

Raag Bhoop Kalyan is also known as Shuddh Kalyan. Its ascending notes have the same notes as Raag Bhopali and its descen...

Budhaditya Mukherjee performs Raag Desh live at Bawali Rajbari, Kolkata, India.

Raag Desh; Thaat: Khamaj; Samay: Night

Filmed and recorded in 2017, live at Tiger Caves, Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu.

Musician:
- K Bharat Sundar

Ragamala in Todi

Shot in the early morning environs of the sandstone-carved Tiger Caves in coastal Mahabalipuram, this performance bridges two time-zones of the Hindustani raga system. T...

Filmed and recorded live in India at Tiger Caves, Mahabalipuram

Musician:
- K Bharat Sundar (Vocals)

Raag Sindhu Bhairavi, Thaat: Asavari, Samay: Early Morning

This video was shot early morning at the sandstone-carved Tiger Caves in coastal Tamil Nadu. The crisp sound of the tanpura against th...

Recorded by Darbar at Ram Bagh Palace, Amritsar, India

Musician:
- Kamal Sabri (sarangi)

Raag Piloo: Thaat: Kafi; Samay: Afternoon

Kamal Sabri demonstrates the sarangi, a bowed instrument from North India renowned for its ability to capture the expressive flexibility of the human voice.

Kamal...

Filmed and recorded live in 2017, at Mulshi, Maharashtra, India.

Musician:
- Arshad Khan (esraj)

Alap in Raag Bhairavi, Thaat: Bhairavi, Samay: Morning

The esraj is a variant of the dilruba with 20 metal frets on a sitar-like neck. With a slightly deeper tone than that of a sarangi, this rare...

Recorded on location in Mulshi, Maharashtra, India

Musician:
- Ramakant Gaikwad (Patiala gharana)

Raag Madhuvanti; Thaat: Todi; Samay: Late Afternoon

Raag Madhuvanti is a creation of the sitar legend, Ustad Vilayat Khan. Comprised of the softer shades of Multani, an afternoon melody, this rag...

Recorded on location in Mulshi, Maharashtra, India, in 2015.

Musician:
- Pelva Naik (vocal)

Raag Maru

Set against the sunset over Lake Mulshi in Maharashtra, Pelva Naik sings Raag Maru which is considered as a Raāgputra of Malkauns but opinions differ among scholars. It's not sung much being t...

Recorded at Ravenna, Italy in 2017

Musician:
- Debasmita Bhattacharya (sarod)

Raag Ahir Bhairav, Thaat: Bhairav, Samay: Early Morning

Debasmita Bhattacharya is one of India’s finest young sarod players. She balances a deep knowledge of classical forms with an expansive mindset, pushing the Hin...

Recorded on location at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, in 2017.

Musicians:
- Shashank Subramanyum (bansuri)
- Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam)

Raga Bhindumalini

Shashank Subramanyam started learning early in life - some say he could recognise all 72 Melakarta scales by the age of two-and-a-half. His...

Recorded on location at Mahabalipuram beach in Tamil Nadu, India.

Mridangam maestro Patri Satish Kumar plays unaccompanied on Mahabalipuram beach in Tamil Nadu, substituting a tanpura for sound of the waves.

Patri Satish Kumar is one of India’s leading mridangam players, known for fine dynamic...

Recorded live on location in Mulshi, Maharashtra, India.

Musicians:
- Pandit Kedar Bodas (Gwalior gharana)
- Leeladhar Chakradev (harmonium)
- Dattatray Bhave (tabla)
- Harshad Lamrood (tanpura)
- Vishvesh Sardeshpande (tanpura)

Raag Gauri; Thaat: Bhairav; Samay: Late Afternoon

A special rende...

Recorded in Mulshi, Maharashtra, India.

Musician:
- D Srinivas (Veena)

Raga Sriranjani

D Srinivas is one of the finest unplugged carnatic veena exponents in India. He performs a short piece at a farmhouse in Mulshi, India. Renowned for his speed and mathematical approach to Carnatic classical ...