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Fusing the melodic and harmonic structure of classic Indian ragas with the sheen of synthesized sound, the album transmits a sense of unbridled joy in discovery. The songs, which he recorded over the ...

Violin maestro L. Subramaniam recently published his doctoral thesis as a book, Raga Harmony (Westland). The book explains how he integrated the Indian raga system with the harmonic structure of ...

Composer Reena Esmail breaks down the difference between raga and tala in Indian classical music, and how their function compares to scales and rhythms in Western classical music. Host Scott Yoo then ...

For the past year, percussionist Sameer Gupta’s nonprofit, RootStock Arts, has presented bite-sized programs of classical Indian music at Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery. By turning the ...

Last week, five members of a music collective calling themselves Brooklyn Raga Massive, or BRM, were seated in the backyard of co-founder Neel Murgai’s Prospect Heights apartment, sipping coffee and ...

When you enter an Indian restaurant or an ethnic grocery store, you may have heard a unique melody that is not Japanese or Western music. That music is based on a mode called ' raga ' and is said to ...

Learn how a raga is developed through aalap and bandish in Indian classical music, with clear techniques and musical insight. #IndianClassicalMusic #Raga #Aalap #Bandish #MusicLesson #MusicTheory #Lea ...