India Music

Soumik Datta continues his musical travels around India in the southern state of Kerala, home to some of the oldest religious music in the country. He visits the Panchari Melam, a spectacular Hindu festival with extraordinary displays of massed drumming. And in Maharashtra, he discovers how the brass band tradition, with its origins in the military bands of the British Raj, is falling out of favour as the staple of Indian wedding processions.

Raga Lalit is a 2001 collaborative album, a jugalbandi, between sitarist Shujaat Khan and sarod player Tejendra Narayan Majumdar. This was released by India Archive Music.

Raga Ramkali is a 2001 album by sitarist Kalyani Roy, featuring two different ragas. This was released by India Archive Music

Raga Pahadi Jhinjhoti is a 2007 album by Indian slide guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya. This was released by India Archive Music.

Sarangi is the instrument Dhruba Ghosh plays and it is the title of this CD. This was released by India Archive Music.

Raga Alhaiya Bilawal/Shankara is the 2007 album by sarod musician Tejendra Marayan Majumdar. This CD, released by India Archive Music, features two lengthy ragas and is joined with Samar Saha on tabla.

Raga Bairagi/Raga Bhairavi is the 2007 album by sitar player Shujaat Khan. The son of the late Vilayat Khan, this was released by India Archive Music and features two lengthy ragas, played with tabla player Samir Chatterjee.

The Virtuoso Of Veena (Classical Music Of South India) is the 1974 album by veena musician Sundaram Balachander, credited here simply as Balachander. The album also features Mannargudi (M.A.) Easwaran on mridangam and Thetakudi Harihara (Vikku) Vinayakram on gatam, This was released on CD in Japan in 1984 by Denon.

Raga Shree is a 1999 album by Indian sitar legend Ustad Vilayat Khan. This compact disc consists of one 75 minute raga. This was released by India Archive Music.

From India is a 1995 album by Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan. It is a jugalbandi disc where they are joined by different tabla and tambura players depending on which raga or dhun it is. It is a European pressing released by Music Of The World.