#darbarfestival | “Hindustani music is an infinite source...[it’s] controlled and detailed, so in a way you’re spiralling inwards as you elaborate a raga, towards the centre” (Soumik Datta)
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3:53 Jor - Improvised exploration of Raag Durga with a slight pulse
8:04 Jhala - Improvised exploration of Raag Durga to a strong rhythmic pulse
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Learn more about the music:
Soumik Datta is a sarodi from the younger generation, describing himself as ‘a slave to the instrument’. He trained under the late maestro Buddhadev Das Gupta, flying to Kolkata for periods of intense study during his holidays from boarding school in the UK. Today he plays a vast range of styles - jazz, Indo-blues, drum’n’bass, and many more. But he always returns to his classical core, performing Hindustani music around the world.
Raag Durga is a spacious, folksy raga, intended for the hours just past midnight. It is named after an incarnation of Hinduism’s supreme goddess, and uses five notes from Bilawal thaat (Western major scale), ascending as SRmPDS and descending as SDPmRDS. The vadi [king note] is Dha, and the samvadi [queen note] is Re, with Ga and Ni being varjit [forbidden]. It is similar to Carnatic Raag Shuddha Saveri.
Recorded for Darbar on 25 Oct 2018, at London’s Barbican Centre
-Soumik Datta (sarod)
-Sukhwinder Singh ‘Pinky’ (tabla)
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