spheres of resonance

there is an ancient indian folk story about the bird called musikar or dipak-lotus which had a beak of seven apertures. through each of these openings the bird was supposed to have been able to blow a different note, and at different seasons of the year it combined these notes into harmony to produce ragas with an "ethos" particular to the hour of the day and season of the year. an egg was

indian melancholia & a knock on the window pane

ali akbar khan(melancholia since 01/2008)(music):-sundaram balachander: magic music of india, 1963 (indian veena player)-sundaram balachander: sounds of the veena, 1967-sundaram balachander: man from madras, 1968-pandit vishwa mohan bhatt: saltanah (with simon shaheen), 1997 (hindustani guitar player [guitar is modified with the addition of several drone strings and eight sympathetic strings and

paris, sf, nyc

pandit pran nath: raga cycle, palace theatre, paris 1972with la monte young & marian zazeela: tambouras, terry riley: tabla.and also,pandit pran nath: midnight, raga malkauns 4 viii 71 sf, 21 viii 76 nycwith terry riley: tabla, ann riley & simone forti: tamboura + k. paramjyoti: tabla, la monte young & marian zazeela: tamboura.two recordings with a quiet intensity, like a cecil taylor played by