US-based Indo-American pianist and composer Charu Suri, who earned a nomination at the 68th Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for her record Shayan (deep sleep), says she had ...

Tune in to an evening of traditional monsoon ragas and instrumental fusion by santoor maestro Rahul Sharma Tune in to an evening of traditional monsoon ragas and instrumental fusion by santoor maestro ...

For the last 10 years, guitarist Ben Chasny has been recording as Six Organs of Admittance, lacing his passionate and largely instrumental guitar-ragas with shorter passages that hint at a gift for ...

"Having grown up in Canada, I didn't get a lot of exposure to my own culture. I was singing along to Avril Lavigne and Green Day, and it wasn't until one day I was watching a Bollywood movie that the ...

BENGALURU: Though the concept of an instrumental ensemble or vadya vrinda is essentially Western, it is not unknown to Indian classical music. We have a good number of instrumental ensembles based on ...

An amalgamation of songs that employ melody to represent human emotions, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan’s upcoming album, Navras promises to be a spiritual journey. In an interview to Mid-day, he says the ...

The Odissi Raga Mahotsava is the most awaited annual endeavour of Guru Gopal Panda Odissi Academy (GGPOA), Bhubaneswar. The two-day festival celebrates authentic Odissi ragas and raginis, through solo ...

Our classical music is basically melody and rhythm. There is no harmony in our music, that is to say, it does not have a combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes. Any harmonic implications ...

Though musical treatises prescribe time theory for the rendition of different ragas, mostly it is in Hindustani classical music that this theory is stringently followed, according to which time ...