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Wednesday, December 06, 2017

Culture Break: K. Sridhar: Raga Madhukauns -- Alap

We're used to Indian classical music -- raga, mostly -- being played on the sitar, which has that characteristic drone that to many is emblematic of Indian music. Well, K. Sridhar plays the sarod, which has a very different quality.

And yes, I actually have this on CD. Sadly, it seems that all of the videos of Sridhar playing live can't be embedded, so this will have to do -- just listen to the music.


I did review the CD at one point, but it's not currently up anywhere. It will, however, appear this Sunday at Green Man Review; you can get a sneak preview here.

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