Bass Raga ~ Gawati alaap, jor & jhala

Описание: After studying South Asian raga music for the past 32 years on sitar, I have fulfilled a long time desire to study upright bass which I initiated 4 years back. Here is my first bass raga video, improvising on the beautiful night raga known as Gawati.

Upright bass has a beautiful capacity to execute the meends (microtonal slides and inflections) and I find very suitable for the meditative tradition of the ancient dhrupad style, especially in alaap the free tempo improvisation on the mood on the raga.

I had the wonderful opportunity to study with dhrupad masters, the Gundecha Brothers this spring who blessed me and encouraged me to play this music on bass. Filmed by Jimmy Sudekum

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International performer Paul Livingstone is one of the few American disciples of the legendary Pt. Ravi Shankar. A committed sitarist since the age of 15, he has toured extensively in the US and Latin America as well Europe, South East Asia & India and has performed alongside leading artists from India such as Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri and Abhijit Banerjee among others An award winning teaching & performing artist in the field of world music synthesis, Paul maintains a vision of cross-cultural performance that engages the transcendent joy of music & reflects his innermost social, political & spiritual values. He leads his own Arohi Ensemble playing 'raga jazz chamber music' as well as being a commissioned composer for film, television, theater and dance and has recorded with popular artists such as Ozomatli, Alanis Morrisette, Beck, Rubén Albarrán (Café Tacuba) & Build an Ark. His playing has been featured on Grammy Award winning records by Ozomatli & Ricky Kej. For more info: www.tanpura.com