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Tag Archives: Music
Ry Cooder – A friend of Music Lovers
Ry Cooder is a Grammy award winning guitarist, song writer and composer. This post is not about the music of the LA-based musician but his contribution to world music or as Kutay Derin Kugay of KPFA puts it – music of the world. Ry Cooder is responsible for introducing at least 3 musicians to the world [...]
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Past Master – Ustad Wahid Khan
Wahid Khan was an exponent of the surbahar, the bass version of the sitar. There are 3 recordings of his in existence and this clip from the movie Jalsaghar (The Music Room) by Satyajit Ray. I suggest you use a good sound system to hear this one. Truly sublime!
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Marvin Minsky on Music
Marvin Minsky is a brilliant chap from MIT. He is very well known for his book – The Society of Mind. There is a quality to his thought that makes me almost revere him. Mind you, he is also a geek; the one who finds the following joke amusing. “How many mathematicians does it take [...]
Emerging Master – Alam Khan
Alam Khan is an American sarode player. He got his gifts and training from his father, the late maestro Ali Akbar Khan. Alam comes from the Maihar Gharana, a school of instrumental music founded by Allauddin Khan, a musical saint. I have heard Alam play on several occasions and he always surprises me with the [...]
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WATAMBI – A Film by Joel Crawford
Short animation movie by Cal Art student Joel Crawford. Music by Ashish Khan on the sarode. Enjoy.
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Afghan Robab Master – Mohammad Omar
India has been enriched by foreigners, this is undeniable. An example of this would be the musical instrument called the sarode that was developed from the Afghani Robab. For those interest in the role of foreigners, I would like to point you to the work done by Manjari Ukil. There is also been flow of energy [...]
Master Musician – Hamza El Din
Hamza El Din comes from the province of Nubia in Sudan. The Aswan dam that was built across the river Nile has sunk most of Nubia including Hamza’s native village. When Hamza El Din got wind of the Aswan dam, he promptly mounted himself on a donkey and visited the villages of Nubia collecting songs. [...]
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Bobby McFerrin does something incredible with the audience
When we listen to a sequence of musical notes, our brains try to predict what the next note is. This video confirms this theory and also shows that the musical sense of most people almost coincides. Bob does mention in the video that the audience’s reaction is pretty much the same everywhere. I wonder the [...]
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