Monday, September 3, 2007

Raga Megh ~ Jhala

If I had a sitar and could play it like the guy on the right, I would be hard-pressed to find a reason to do anything else all day. I don't even know if this is good by Indian music standards, but the syncopation and density of it is right in the pocket of my thinking. I've been listening to a lot of Tony Williams Lifetime lately, just to get some of that drive and density without sacrificing the swing, and this sees Tony's gamble and raises him a 1000 years of devotion.

2 comments:

  1. Pretty bad-ass. I got to play a sitar once, but it didn't sound anything like that when I played it.

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  2. me too. My friend Rob had/maybe-still-has one and it sounded like a plywood banjo in my hands.

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