Shree Live at Ali Akbar College of Music

Track Listings

1. Shree alap 14:07

2. jor 12:39

3. slow tintal 18:38

4. fast tintal 13:52

5. gat 16:28

Editorial Reviews
From the Artist
From the booklet interview: The Shree Rag as my father taught me - he used to teach me more the alaps and the actual rag, and the first time I received my training in Shree Rag was very interesting. It was at a hill station near Bombay; no cars go up it, you have to walk all over the hill station. There are ponies and hand-pulled rickshaws and all that. It's a beautiful hill station and one evening he took us to an edge of that hill station, on the cliff, and we were facing the west side and in front of us between our mountain and the opposite one was a deep valley. It was evening, sunset time and the swallows and the birds were returning home. A very light breeze was there and for some time the breeze stopped; he told us to stop talking - all of us, the whole family was sitting there - and he said, "Just listen to the silence." We listened to it for about twenty minutes or half an hour, and that was a very great experience! Then he started humming the Shree ! Rag, and I, my mother, my brother Dhruba and my sister Tulika gave the backdrop, the sa and pa - we created the tanpura effect by humming. And my father was very inspired; he was looking at the pink sky, the setting sun, and he went into the alap of Shree. That was the first time I heard Shree; I was maybe ten or twelve years old and it had a very deep impact on me. He sang and he sang for half an hour and we all lost consciousness of things happening around us. Everything was still. After he finished singing there was a long silence then he told us, "Always sing to the mountains, to the ocean."

About the Artist
Nayan Ghosh and Mallar Ghosh are not related, although both their fathers were musical giants of the previous generation. Nayan's father, Nikhil Ghosh, younger brother of legendary flautist Pannalal Ghosh, was one of the tabla virtuosos of the past century, and a leading vocalist, instrumentalist, composer, author and scholar. Nikhil Ghosh started his training with Mallar's father Gyan Prakash Ghosh, then spent 25 years under Amir Hussain Khan and Ahmedjan Thirakwa. (He may be heard accompanying... read more

Album Description
Recorded at Ali Akbar College of Music in Khansahib's presence by Tim White on November 13, 1999.