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Pandit: Nikhil Banerjee

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Download links and information about Pandit: Nikhil Banerjee by Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. This album was released in 1999 and it belongs to World Music, Instrumental, Instrumental genres. It contains 11 tracks with total duration of 03:30:53 minutes.

Artist: Pandit Nikhil Banerjee
Release date: 1999
Genre: World Music, Instrumental, Instrumental
Tracks: 11
Duration: 03:30:53
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. Raga Maluha Kalyan: Gat In Chaar Taal Ki Savari 12:10
2. Raga Megh: Alap and Gat In Jhaptaal 19:38
3. Raga Mand: Addha Teentaal 7:52
4. Raga Mishra Gara: Thumri In Addha Teentaal 5:53
5. Raga Adana: Gat In Teentaal 12:52
6. Raga Megh: Gat In Jhaptaal 19:34
7. Raga Malkauns: Gat In Vilambit and Drut Teentaal 20:01
8. Raga Sohni: Gat In Teentaal 20:05
9. Raga Mishra Gara: Gat In Sitarkhani 8:04
10. Raga Marwa: Alaap, Jod, Jhala 43:08
11. Raga Puriya Kalyan: Gat In Vilambit and Drut Teentaal 41:36

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In the 1970s and 1980s, Amigo made an excellent series of recordings by traditional Indian musicians, and in 1999, the Stockholm-based label reissued some of them on CD for the first time. One was by the late sitar virtuoso Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. Recorded live in Stockholm in 1975 (when Banerjee was 44), this album was titled Raga Piloo during its years as a vinyl LP but was simply titled Pandit Nikhil Banerjee when it became a CD in 1999. The album consists solely of the extended instrumental raga titled "Raga Piloo," which unites Banerjee's sitar with the tabla drums of Anindo Chaterjee and the tamboura of Ratan Mukherjee. Banerjee had studied traditional Northern Indian music with sarod player Ustad Alauddin Khan, who also taught the great sitarist Ravi Shankar — so it isn't surprising that Banerjee shows such a strong command of his instrument during this performance. Banerjee should have lived to an old age, but sadly, he died in 1986 (11 years after this recording was made) at the age of 55.