INDIA ARCHIVES

Sitarist Amaranth of Benares trained under sitar & thumri vocalist Shrikant Mishra, and he's been influenced by Ravi Shankar & particularly by Vilayat Khan. His Vilayatkhani sitar tone & playing...

Indrakishore Mishra is a dhrupad vocalist of the Bettiah Gharana founded by his ancestors, who served the court of Shahjehan, and migrated to Bettiah on the India-Nepal border. His art is sparse on...

First solo release from an artist well-known around the U.S. & Canada as an accompanist to famous vocalists - he was a disciple of Ravi Shankar & plays the sarangi, a bowed instrument with a soulful...

Kalyan Mukherjea, a Professor of Mathematics, is an unusual member of the Radhu Babu stylistic lineage, which emphasizes the sarod's rhythmic/percussive aspects - an enhancer and modernizer of the...

Sitarist Bimal is a disciple of Abid Hussain Binkar, the foremost exponent of the Jalpur Seniya style, which is a dhrupad & khyal-based style which Bimal modified in response to modern trends in...

Manilal Nag, one of the few surbahar (bass-sitar) artists living today, presents a dhrupad-based rendition of Nat Bhairav, a morning raga mixing mildly playful elements with profundity, and a...

Sitar player Arvind Parikh, with 50 years of training under Vilayat Khan, has a strong inclination towards the meditative and introspective, avoiding obvious showmanship. Parikh presents his own...

Shubhendra Rao is a disciple of Ravi Shankar. Shubhendra says, "The insight he has given me into this music, the spiritual feeling to approach it with raga clarity and strict adherence to the raga...

Sitarist Kalyani is one of the few major women instrumentalists in her genre, with a career spanning 50 years. She's a disciple of Vilayat Khan & has had training from others, including percussion...

Purnima Sen's music is meticulously crafted, having an esthetic coherence and maturity, with all the elements - poetic, melodic, and rhythmic - in balance. It's vintage quality has a freshness and...

Sitar player Sharmistha Sen's style crosses the formal dhrupad with the lyrical khayal. Her delineation is systematic, elaborate and intricate, inviting one to be involved in the subtleties of the...

Bansuri (bamboo flute) player is one of India's finest performers on this instrument - joined by tabla player Samir Chatterjee, Seth presents a rare night melody, evocative of a tender kind of...