Shivkumar Sharma - Rare Masterpiece - Raga Bhinna Kauns '2021

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Shivkumar Sharma is one of the truly great visionaries in the Hindustani
classical music firmament. His popularity has created a knotty problem for his
admirers. Popularity has led to a demand for recordings by him, to a degree that
having a Shivkumar Sharma album acts like a kind of validation for a label.
Consequently the market is flooded with his recordings. His playing is
consummate, therefore he is unlikely to produce a piece of work that is below
par, which makes selecting a shortlist even more difficult.
Sharmas story is one of dedication. He was born in January 1938 in Jammu
Kashmir. His father Uma Dutt Sharma asked him to pursue the development of the
Kashmiri santoor. Being a dutiful son he obeyed and persevered despite private
reservations. Though its Persian relative, the santur, had associations with
Persian and Iranian classical music, elevating the Indian instrument to the
classical concert platform was widely viewed as folly in conservative quarters.
But Shivkumar Sharma persisted, experimented, restrung and reconfigured his
instrument. His first major santoor recital took place in Bombay in February
1955, but it took, he reckons, until the 1970s to finally silence the querulous,
the die-hard connoisseurs of the music, musicologists and purists. Parallel with
his development of the santoor he worked as a tabla player (he accompanied acts
as diverse as the renowned Punjabi folksinger Surinder Kaur and sitar maestro
Ravi Shankar), and his understanding of tabla playing and rhythm has
immeasurably enhanced his performance style and stagecraft.

Tracklist:
 01. Shivkumar Sharma - Raga Bhinna Kauns - Alap (09:48)
 02. Shivkumar Sharma - Raga Bhinna Kauns - Jod Jhala (10:20)
 03. Shivkumar Sharma - Raga Bhinna Kauns - Bandhish in Rupak Taal (7 Beats)
(15:32)
 04. Shivkumar Sharma - Raga Bhinna Kauns - Bandhish in Teentaal (16 Beats)
(22:10)

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