Allah Rakha

"Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha ask questions to each other in a sawal-jawab segment near the climax of a performance of Raga Bhimpalasi at the Monterey Pop Festival".

Ustad Allah Rakha, father of the tabla virtuoso Ustad Zakhir Hussain is credited for having raised the status of the tabla to that of a solo instrument.

Discography


Monterey Trivia

Monterey Pop Festival, held in 1967 was the big momma of all rock fests.

Almost all the artistes appeared and played for free except Pt. Ravi Shankar who took home $3000.

It was the first major rock act for Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.

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I had the pleasure of watching Pt. Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar live when they had come to Lawrence during their US tour. Their entourage was packed with some amazing musicians both Hindustani and Carnatic and the jugalbandi was a musical treat.

Palghat Mani Iyer

A thani avarthanam by Palghat( for some reason i like Palakkadu better) Mani Iyer aka PMI regarded the best mridangam player that ever was, here accompanying Alathur Srinivasa Iyer. Worshipable talent. The violinist is Lalgudi G. Jayaraman. A rare classic. More here

God bless You tube!

A R Rahman 3rd Dimension Tour

This is a promo shot for ARR's 3rd dimensional world tour.

Shot on 8th June 2005 in Chennai

Credits -
Cinematographer - Mr. Muttu Ganesh
Directors - Mr. Deepak Gattani & Mr. Purab Sood

Currently he's touring the US.

Quadruplets cracking up

Is that cute or what! Talk about contagious laughter!

Donasian

This is the video of "We can make it better - Tsunami Lehar" made to raise funds for the victims of the "December 2004 South Asian Tsunami disaster".

The single is called 'Donasian', and features 3 languages, English, Punjabi, and, Hindi.

The music for the single is Produced by 'Mukhtar Sahota' and the string arrangements by 'A R Rahman'.

The song features 15 Asian artists from different music genres from Eastern and Western continents.

The Artists
* Shaan
* Jaspinder Narula
* Sukhwinder Singh
* Hans Raj Hans
* Am'nico
* UK Apache
* Palvinder Dhami
* Channi Singh
* Djinn
* Mistri
* E=MC
* Sumeet
* Shahin Badar
* Surinder Sandhu (Sarangi)
* Shahbaz Khan (Tabla)

Lyrics

* Chaman Lal Chaman (Punjabi and Hindi)
* Am'nico (English)
* Rap (the Rap Artists themselves)

Source :Donasian
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