This is best Purnaga Alaap (Alaap, Jod and Jhala) anyone has ever played for Raga Hemant in the history of this universe... This is simply just ...(sorry loss of words!!)

I am an African, but went to school in the UK, with many Indians as friends and classmates. I was introduced to Sitar music, which I have grown to like very much. Nikhil Banerjee is my favourite.

How is possible 10 fingers can make such a heavenly music? I believe the Holy Spirit was running through his earthly body while he was playing such an amazing melody. No one in his time, before, and after could or can play sitar like Pandit Nikhil Banerjee.

It's not music, it's God's own voice. All our frivolities melt away in this bliss.

I first bought this record in 1969 or 1970 and it forever changed my life. I had never heard anything like it and I was instantly a devotee for life. I was fortunately able to study with him from 1974 through the late 70's and it was the greatest honor to sit and listen to him practice. And the greatest loss of my life was when he died so young in 1986.

How is it possible to have tears in my eyes every time while listening to this recording!!

I'm always amazed by the quality of his music...so much clarity in raag so much control of his instrument. He's still a great influence for me. Love from France ❤️❤️

Since Nikhil Banerjee died, I keep hoping he will be reborn; maybe there will be a new sitar player as great as he was, who I can hear before I die. But it hasn’t happened, no matter how much I wish it were so. He was the greatest I have heard, really unlike all others, inimitable and sublime, otherworldly, and, I think, more important than everything else, the most *gentle.* That is the word and the idea he communicates to me most strongly. We are so lucky we live in an age of recordings so we can still hear him.

amazing I am lost in raga Hemant of Nikhil Banerjee he was a legend

Wonderful! Thanks, been looking for this a long time.....❤ There is more from that album that I wish I could find.

So much sweetness! The meend at 7:22 really pierces the heart and takes you straight into the cosmos!

The singing sitar of the great maestro!! Thanks for sharing...

Nikhilji put his heart and soul in every raga he played. Remains unparalleled to this day....his memory will forever remain with all classical music lovers. Thank God we have a great library of his recorded music that everyone will enjoy for eternity....

I so love this song.

I am speechless !!!!

Ultimate depiction ...!! No words left.

Wow! I bought this vinyl back in 1971. It's one of my favorites. Thx for uploading!

No words to praise.

This is remembering me of all the beatiful and forever memorized moments of my life, never ever forgettable, Wendy and friends.

“A GRACE of The Infinite☝🏻 - To Have Heard Such a Wondrous Master of Sound… This is Musical PRANA…”

This was the first raga I have ever heard. I was 13 or 14. Got hooked.

Expression of a divine soul.

This is the effect of Baba' s realized soul which created the raga and Nikhil Kaka' s tapasya that rendered it like it has been done. Nothing can beat this combination.

❤

“A GRACE of The Infinite☝🏻 - To Have Heard Such a Wondrous Master of Sound… This is Musical PRANA…

Excellant presentation , pranam

sublime..a master

It is so mesmerizing.

This is beautiful.

Sattva - om divine love om *namaste*

Great.

The only symphonist among the Indian sitarists. At least, this hemant piece testifies so. It has a story to tell.

Many music go on in the name of meditation. One must hear this one from Panditji to know the real stuff and the difference between the real and the spurious

Bliss

Jwab nahi !

Can anybody share some basics of this raaga..like aaroh avroh pakad etc.. may be the prominent phrases as well.. Thanks!!

Is this in Bilawal thaat?

Not Lt.Banrjee is playing siter,but God is playing the same.

Peerless!!