Artist: Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Genre(s):
Reggae
Electronic
Indie
Discography:
Raga Cycle
Year: 2005
Tracks: 5
Flute Deity
Year: 2005
Tracks: 4
Shikhar
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
Healing Music For Ayurveda
Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
SanGeet Sartaj Vol II
Year: 1990
Tracks: 3
SanGeet Sartaj Vol I
Year: 1990
Tracks: 3
Sangeet Sartaj Vol 2
Year: 1990
Tracks: 3
Sangeet Sartaj Vol 1
Year: 1990
Tracks: 3
With his virtuousic blowing technique, Hariprasad Chaurasia has turned the Bansuri (bamboo) fluting into an instrument of mantrap. Blending the musical traditions of India with imaginativeness and instauration, Chaurasia has reached beyond classical music to create a profound of his possess. Presented with the interior award of the Sangeet Natak Academy in 1984, Chaurasia received the Gaurav Puraskar from the body politic government of Maharashtra, India in 1990, the Padma Bhushan and the Konarak Samman in 1992 and the Yash Bharati Sanman in 1994. In addition to recording as a soloist, Chaurasia has collaborated with such wind musicians as John McLaughlin and Jan Garbarek. His compositions experience been heard in several Indian films including Silsila, which he co-wrote with Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma.
Although he began his musical studies as a vocalizer, Chaurasia switched to the champagne flute after listening a operation by Pandit Bholanath a year subsequently. Inspired by what he heard, Chaurasia fagged the following vIII long time perusing with Bholanath. He later studied with surbahar role player Shrinimati Annapurna Devi, the girl of Ustad Allaudin Khan and the siter of Ali Akbar Khan. In 1957, Chaurasia began playing and composing material for All India Radio in Calcutta. Ten years subsequently, he collaborated with Shivkumar Sharma and Brijbhushan Kabra on a much-celebrated raga suite, "Visit Of The Valley."
