INDIA – INDE Amjad Ali Khan – Live at Teen Murti House – Raga Shyam Shree – His Master's Voice – ECLP 2887

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Amjad Ali Khan – Live at Teen Murti House – Raga Shyam Shree – His Master's Voice – ECLP 2887, 1981 (LP)

Here’s another totally brilliant album by the great sarod master Amjad Ali Khan (b. 1945), the son of the eminent Gwalior court musician Hafiz Ali Khan (1888-1972).

 

Khan’s remarkable rendering of Raga Shyam Shree recorded at Teen Murti House – the official residence of India's first Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru (1889-1964) – features Khan’s sheer outpouring of ideas and dynamic, clear ringing sarod, achieved through his innovative use of fingernails instead of fingertips.

 

He is accompanied here by his disciple Gurudev Singh (b. 1948) on the sarod, Kale Ram (b. 1946) on tabla and Awatar Singh on the tanpura drone.

 

Voici un nouvel album brillantissime du grand maître du sarod Amjad Ali Khan (né en 1945), le fils de l’éminent musicien de la cour de Gwalior Hafiz Ali Khan (1888-1972).

 

Cette interprétation exquise de Raga Shyam Shree par Amjad Ali Khan enregistrée au Teen Murti House – la résidence officielle du premier Premier ministre indien, Jawahar Lal Nehru (1889-1964) – met en avant son éblouissante inventivité et les sonorités limpides et dynamiques de son instrument obtenues par l’utilisation novatrice des ongles au lieu des doigts.

 

Il est accompagné ici par son disciple Gurudev Singh (né en 1948) au sarod, Kale Ram (né en 1946) aux tablas et Awatar Singh au bourdon tanpura.

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Our other sarod music posts:

Amjad Ali Khan – Raga Darbari – EASD 2824 here

Amjad Ali Khan – The Maestro's Musings – CBS IND 1149 here

Sharan Rani – HMV 7 EPE 1211 here

Ali Akbar Khan – HMV EALP 1255 here
Ali Akbar Khan – Connoisseur Society CS 462 here

Photographs below are from The Musicians of India (Illustrated) by Harendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury, Ramgopalpur, 1929, and Gloire des Princes, Louange des Dieux – catalogue for the March-June 2003 Musée de la Musique exhibition in Paris:

Amjad Ali Khan's father and teacher Hafiz Ali Khan of Gwalior (1888-1972):

The Royal Musicians of Hindustan: Mohammed Ali Khan, Inayat Khan, Musheraff Khan and Maheboob Khan, early 1910s:

Veena player, musicologist, poet, mystic, and philosopher Inayat Khan (1882-1927) was a pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West. He toured the United States with his brother Maheboob Khan and cousin Mohammed Ali Khan between 1910 and 1912, and settled in London where he established a Sufi order in 1914 followed by additional centers in the United States and Europe. 

“Now if I do anything, it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is anything in my philosophy, it is the law of harmony: that one puts oneself in harmony with oneself and with others.”

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