This piece incorporates part of the Islamic Shahada with a children's song for peace from Salaam Suite cd by Paul Livingstone set to images & wisdom copiled by Alfred Madain
Virtuoso of the sarod, Pt. Rajeev Taranath, senior disciple of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan played this rarely heard variant from the Sarang family of ragas last weekend at the Spic Macay concert in Los Angeles. This excerpt is the intro, a bit of the alaap & the complete jor Rajeevji played.
Arohi Ensemble playing this piece on Oct 4th, 08... based on Raga Anandi Kalyan. Featuring left to right, Pedro Eustache - bansuri, Abhijit Banerjee - tabla, Paul Livingstone - sitar, Partho Sarothy - sarod, Leticia Meza - tanpura, Peter Jacobson - cello & Dave Lewis - drum set.
This Raga Jazz piece 'Peloraga' has an influence of gamelan music thus the combination of Pelog (an Indonesian scale) & Raga in the title. Concert presented by Casa de la Cultura Bharitya Vidya Bhavan of Mexico City.
Classical North Indian music sarod performance at UCLA. This excerpt of Madhubanti on sarod is performed by Pt. Rajeev Taranath (senior disciple of Ust. Ali Akbar Khan) accompanied by Abhiman Kaushal on tabla.
Indian classical music performance excerpt by Paul Livingstone on sitar & Hom Nath Upadhyaya on tabla. Raga Megh is a rainy season raga, this performance is held at Cal Arts in the spring of 2006. Jhala is the final climax of a raga performance in teental a 16 beat rhythmic cycle. For more info: www.tanpura.com
Indian classical music performance excerpt by Paul Livingstone on sitar & Hom Nath Upadhyaya on tabla. Raga Megh is a rainy season raga, this performance is held at Cal Arts in the spring of 2006. Ektal is a 12 beat rhythmic cycle. for more info: www.tanpura.com
This new Arohi jam incorporates Indian rhythmic elements as well as loosely based raga solos changes on fretless guitar + drums & percussion solos. The theme is based on Raga Shivranjani... Enjoy!
This second part of Peloraga features a cello solo by Peter Jacobson, sitar solo by Paul Livingstone & flute solo by Pedro Eustache. This composition by Paul Livinstone, utilizes the Pelog scale from Indonesia with a ragajazz format, Indian tehais etc.
Part one of this composition by Paul Livingstone, utilizes the Pelog scale from Indonesia with a ragajazz format, Indian tehais etc. This part concludes with a great tabla/drums interchange between Abhijit Banerjee & Dave Lewis.
Paul Livingstone performing a requinto solo. This is a modified requinto jarocho (small Mexican guitar) made without frets (sin trastes) in the Festival Olmeca from San Andres Tuxtla. The performance is an improivsation with influences of Indian & Middle Eastern music and includes solkattu (South Indian rhythmic recitations).
Sangeet School presents Sitar Trio. Avichal Jha & Casey Farmen are sitar students of Paul Livingstone. They perform with Paul a short recital of Raga Yaman. Tabla accompaniment by Pial Hussain.
This is a compoistion by mridangist Poovlur Srinivasan in a 63 beat rhythmic cycle believe or not! If you don't believe it count 3 bars of 4/4 then 3 bars of 5/16 or one bar of 15/16. The whole piece adhers to this tala (cycle) even the swinging solo section.
2 songs from Salaam Suite ~ music of Paul Livingstone set to images and words of wisdom
compiled By Paul Z & Alfred Madain. These songs feature Los Angeles musicians from Ozomatli, Kan Zaman & Black Love Radiators. Peace in! For more check out www.tanpura.com cd available at cdbaby.com