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Pandit Bhimsen Joshi - Live At Darbar Hall (2007) {Kosmic Music KMD 529 - Indian Classical Vocal}
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© 2007 Kosmic Music | KMD 529
Indian Music / World Music / Indian Classical / Hindustani Vocal / Raga

When I was about 14 years old in 1988, I heard Pandit Bhimsen Joshi voice very first time in my life in an Indian National Integration song called 'Mile Sur Mera Tumhara'. The moment I heard his voice, I felt like my spine was shaking with an ultimate bliss and I still have the same feeling whenever I listen to his voice. In my opinion and experience, he has Khayal's greatest male voice. Although 'Pandit Bhimsen Joshi' born in Karnataka (South India), he achieved greatest success in North Indian Classical Music.

La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - The Tamburas Of Pandit Pran Nath (1982) {Just Dreams JD001 rel 1999}
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© 1982, 1999 La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela / Just Dreams | JD 001
World Music / Indian Classical / Religious / Drone / Tambura

Eternal Music is a cumbersome concept. It is non-denominational, but religious, a sacred music that aims for a pure truth of sound. If all matter is interconnected, and no energy ever completely disappears, all sounds are occurring at all times. There is no necessary artistry or intention. It's just that somewhere in the universe, there is a 440-hertz sine wave tone that has been playing for all of time. And there are sine waves playing at all sorts of minute gradations in between 440 and 441. The whole sound spectrum, audible and inaudible, is all obliviously occurring, all the time, in the ether.

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi - Live At The I.C.A., London 1985 (1993) {Sony Nad–Navras Records NR0021-2}
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© 1985, 1993 Sony Nad / Navras Records | NR0021-2
Indian Music / World Music / Indian Classical / Hindustani Vocal / Raga

He is one of the greatest Indian Classical singers and one of my all time favorite musicians and certainly this is really biggest loss for Indian Classical Music. And just for your info, he is the very first Indian Classical male singer who got 'Bharat Ratna' award, India's highest civilian award. I remember, he is one of the driving forces in my life to draw my attention to Indian Classical music.

Shivkumar Sharma & Hariprasad Chaurasia - The Valley Recalls (1995) {2CD+2DVD5 NTSC Sony Music-Navras}
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© 1995, 2004, 2009 Sony Music / Navras Records | 88697 56085 2 / NRDVD 005/6
World Music / Indian Classical / Raga / Santoor & Flute Jugalbandi / Pakhawaj & Tabla Duet

Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia reunite some 30 years later for a follow-up to their beautiful and groundbreaking Call of the Valley. Sharma (santoor) and Chaurasia (flute) were highly regarded on their instruments back then, and are now acknowledged as living masters. Although Brij Bhushan Kabra has been replaced on Indian acoustic slide guitar by Jayanti Shah, the overall mood is just as lovely and contemplative, even though the role of the guitar has been diminished. The Valley Recalls is beautiful, gentle work, and a worthy successor to Call of the Valley.