Een review in Mixed No. 9, zomer 2009 over ‘Darbar Arts Culture Heritage’, een kleurrijk fotoboek over het jaarlijks in Engeland plaatsvindende Darbar Festival, het grootste ragamuziekfestival buiten India.
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Uit het fotoboek een foto van zangeres Kaushiki Chakrabarty tijdens haar optreden op het Darbar Festival 2008.
Hey, that picture… looks like… is it…?… YES! …it’s Kaushiki-ji !!
On Saturday 25 July 2009, dutch national channel Radio 6 featured a special on Kaushiki Chakrabarty in VPRO’s (more…)
Sad news, a pillar of Indian Classical Music has fallen… Ali Akbar Khan passed away on Friday 19 June 2009. The one time I heard him live in the Mozes en Aäronkerk in Amsterdam in the eighties was an overwhelming experience, an unforgettable concert. Fortunately we can all access more than fifty years of good recordings of this no longer living legend.
There’s a lot of video footage of him too, for instance watch & listen him playing in a beautiful performance of Raag Brindabani Sarang, a clip that was published on 19 june(!) 2007.
Good comfort is that his music lives on forever!
Ranjani & Gayatri
Sometimes you hear music and right from the start you can’t get enough of it. Its beauty and its emotional content overwhelms you and you want to experience the musical sensation over and over again. The sounds you hear reverberate in your soul, seem to satisfy an inner need and connect with your deeper self. And when the music reaches really deep (more…)
My radio 6-blog-messages -in dutch- on my Concertzender-programme ‘Gharana’ are moved to a new folder. They are no longer accessible via the ‘Magazine’-folder but from now on you’ll find them in the Oriënt Express-folder.
Right now you’ll find articles on the first two episodes of Gharana, episode 1, dedicated to Kaushiki Chakrabarty and episode 2, dedicated to Kala Ramnath. You can still listen to these programmes via this ‘on demand’-page of via the programme guide pages of radiostation De Concertzender.
The next Gharana-special is scheduled for broadcast on Friday, the 30th of May, 2008, and will be dedicated to sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee.
(sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee)
It’s been more than a week now that I’ve had a great time in Leicester, England, as a visitor of the Darbar Festival 2008. (more…)
