Tag Archives: Acoustic

eka3

21/03/2013 – 5:21 pm

In providing a new platform for Arabic Music, eka3 are sharing great music. They are opening up genres and styles including a diverse selection on their roster such as Classical, Fusion, Rock, Hip Hop and Experimental Electronica. We compiled a selection of cool tunes from their Soundcloud.

Who are Eka3?

eka3 is a pan-Arab organization strategically dedicated to creating, promoting and growing this new emerging wave by pointing it out to the world, and filling in the missing links between this scene & the Arab public.

eka3 is an initiative created by a team of artists: from musicians, photographers, visual artists to film directors.. Innovators who dream of seeing their own works achieve their full potential of reach and exposure, and upon this vision eka3 shares the dreams of musicians throughout the region.

Eka3 are the neo-generative front end of Arabic media. We are excited to hear about eka3 and the good works they are doing in promoting New Arabic Art and Culture. By allowing new streams of creative flow through the global media networks, we all share in the cultural diversity and the process of Global Harmony that comes with it.

Eka3 Social Media

Tags Acoustic, Album, Arabic, Arts, Classical, Egypt, Fusion, Label, Maqam, Middle East, Ney, Oud, Peace, Platform, Recording, Vocal | Comment (0)

Zia Mohiudin Dagar

11/12/2012 – 5:52 pm

There is an incredible, vast ocean that is revealed in the depths of sound that are present in the Rudra Veena when played in the hands of a master such as Zia Mohiuddin Dagar.

Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (14 March 1929 – 28 September 1990), popularly known as Z. M. Dagar, was a North Indian (Hindustani) classical musician, one of the 19th generation of Dagar family dhrupad musicians. He was largely responsible for the revival of the rudra vina as a solo concert instrument.

This remarkable video demonstrates the illustrious depth of such a noble instrument both in terms of the emotional consonance and also the sonic integrity of the music and the quality of the recording, allows the bass tones to come rolling through and touching, literally the innermost parts of our human selves.

Links

Wikipedia

Sangeet Kendra

Article – on Dhrupad in the Dagar tradition

Excerpt from a fascinating article at www.dhrupad.info

The Concepts of Swara and Raga in Dhrupad

Dhrupad singing requires the practise of nada yoga, which is a form of laya yoga. The sadhana of nada yoga produces a resonant voice that comes from deep within, and seems to permeate the very being of the singer. The voice is different from the throaty voice that is ideal for khayal and thumri singing. It is a voice that is very rich in overtones. The author of this article can say from his personal experience of training under various Ustads of the Dagar tradition, that this sadhana involves shifting the source of sound gradually to the base of the throat (kanth mool), and further down to the heart (hriday), and the navel (nabhi) till a stage is reached when the entire region from navel to head (murdhanya) vibrates as one. There is a shloka in the Sangit-ratnakar of Sarangdev, which describes the method of producing nada. In the voice of a Dhrupad singer who has achieved siddhi in nada yoga, the intonation of a sa produces very prominent overtones of pa and ga. A similar prominence of overtones is seen in the rudra veena and the sursingar, which are regarded as read more »

Tags Acoustic, Arts, Beenkar, Classical, Dagar, Dhrupad, Full Spectrum Music for Peace, ICM, Meditation, Nada Yoga, Peace, Rudra Veena, Sangeet, Youtube | Comment (0)

Winter Solstice Gathering : 2012

23/11/2012 – 2:23 pm

Sangita Sounds : Winter Solstice Gathering 2012

WHERE : Inspiral Lounge, 250 Camden High St. London.

WHEN : 21st December 2012. 8pm till 2am.

COST : Free Entry (just bring Love!)

Our dear friends at the ever marvellous London venue, Inspiral Lounge, have invited us to host a magical evening of spiritual sounds and mystic music to celebrate the mystic opening of the Galactic Portal on 21.12.12.

Join us and celebrate the turning of the solar wheel on this auspicious day of global and galactic evolution, as we share a sonic, spiritual journey into a new era.

The Winter Solstice celebrated here in the west coincides with the Persian festival of Yalda & Indian celebration of Makar Sankranti. The Sangita Sounds Solstice Gathering also takes place on 21.12.12, which is said to be the end of the current Long Count, the 5125 Year, Universal Cycle and an auspicious day of change according to the Mayan Calendar.

So let us gather together to celebrate the changes and to share collective visions of a new era of Global Love in Human Unity.

Our audio voyagers on the night include Dubsahara, who will be sharing middle eastern infused electronica, with rhythms from the Arabian Gulf to the Egyptian Pyramids, effortlessly merging in the melting pot of sound.
https://soundcloud.com/dubsahara

Noodreem will guide us on a sacred journey along the Ganga with exotic Indian textures and Raga-esque, mellifluous melodies from Kolkata to Varanasi fused with Reggae inspired basslines of Dub.
https://soundcloud.com/noodreem

The spectral harmonies that emerge from ESP and his digi-delic sounds will uplift and sooth the atmospheric condition of the heart with a deep sonic breeze blowing through the Oasis of the mind.
https://soundcloud.com/jon-e-s-p

Georgina Brett will be weaving enchanting myriad of sonic geometries with her live vocal looping and neo-classical arrangements of polyrhythmic possibilities!
https://soundcloud.com/georginabrett
Also, our friends from Iran, Tinoush Bahrami & Samaneh and from India, Ajit Pandaye will also join us for acoustic celebration in the World of Music.
http://youtu.be/Dm3luA40ssM

Let us join together in the celebration of Love, Peace and Unity and journey through the sounds of our Earth and beyond! Let the Sangita Sounds team open a space for you, a place of spiritual peace and transcendental effervescence, a place of sharing the hearts Journey into Love. Empty our minds of stress and anxiety and allow the divine breath to flow through….

It is not the solid wood that can become a flute; it is the empty reed. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Tags 2012, Acoustic, Ajit Pandaye, Ambient, chillout, Consciousness, Cosmic, Dub, Dubsahara, E.S.P, Electroacoustic, ethnodelic, Ethnotronic, Full Spectrum Music for Peace, Fusion, Gathering, Georgina Brett, India, Inspiral Lounge, Iranian, London, Music, Musicians, Mystic, Noodreem, Peace, Sangita Sounds, Tinoush Bahrami, Unity | Comment (0)

Shivratri in Varanasi – A musical view in video

10/07/2012 – 5:08 pm

We are pleased to share a small selection of video clips captured at the Dhrupad Mela 2012 & Shivratri Program near Durga Mandir in Benares by our intrepid all-night team, Dominic, Darren Sangita, Baba Jeff and Devnath. We kept an all night vigil during the four nights of programs in order to enjoy and hopefully share something of the magic of Dhrupad and Indian Classical Music.

Here are some of our humble offerings. Blessings to the many performers that give their time for these programs.