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I'm very fond of Ravi Shankar's sitar playing. I imagine if God were to invent a musical insrument to praise himself, it'd be the sitar. I have my owm collection of Ravi shankar, Anoushka Shankar and Anada Shankar CDs. I listen to them a lot so I can get some inspiration to play my own sitar, since I have not found a qualified teacher. Furthermore, Mahatma Gandhi is a leader of great inspiration to me. Whenever I watch his movie I cry, it's deeply moving to me, his life, strugle and accomplishments are all deeds of a grat man who has a great soul. Listening to "Homage to Mahatma Gandhi" is a good way to maditate on that.
Long after the 1948 assassination of Mohandas K. Gandhi, inspirational leader of the Indian nonviolence movement of Satyagrahis who gained India's freedom from British imperialism just six months earlier, Ravi Shankar, a sitar player, wrote a musical tribute called, "Mohan Kauns," to whom the Indian people called "The Mahatma," (Great Soul). "Mohan Kauns" plays a four-part homage to the civil rights leader. Beginning with a drumless remorse, then Indian hand drums (tabla) & 2 long-necked, fretless, stringed instruments (tanpura). Shankar's lead playing sitar is accompanied by the other instruments to create an ethnically erotic effect. An Indian composition form (raga)features a melody the musicians improvise. The CD includes 2 more pieces: "Gara" a raga & "Farodast" a tala (repeated rhythmic cycle). The musicians are: Ravi Shankar on sitar; Mrs. Jaban, Mrs. Widya, Prodyot Sen, & Sunil Kumar on tanpura; Alla Rakha on tabla. It is a musical homage well fit for the most achieved nonviolence leader of the early 20th century.Read full review
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