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2 unusual facts about sitar


Baba Aiso Varr Dhoondo

She then enters her father's room where he is seen fiddling with a (Sitar) which he designed for his daughter.

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Psychedelic music bands often used new recording techniques and effects and drew on non-Western sources such as the ragas and drones of Indian music.


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Ananda Shankar

There he was signed to Reprise Records and released his first self-titled album in 1970, featuring original Indian classical material alongside sitar-based cover versions of popular hits such as The Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and The Doors' "Light My Fire".

Anindo Chatterjee

In addition to solo performances and recordings, Chatterjee worked with sitar players Nikhil Banerjee, Imrat Khan, Budhaditya Mukherjee, and Rais Khan,Pt.Ravisankar,Ustad Sahid Parvej Pt.Manilal Nag, sarod players Buddhadev Das Gupta and Ali Akbar Khan,Ustad Amjad Ali Khan,Tejendra Narayan Majumder, flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia; santoor player Pandit Shivkumar Sharma; and vocalists Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur and Gangubai Hangal.

Anjan Chattopadhyay

Robert Ehrlich, the honourable Governor of the State of Maryland after performing his sitar recital in presence of the honourable Senator Mr Paul Sarbanes.

Anoushka

Anoushka Shankar (born 1981), an Indian American sitar player and composer

Bernie Tormé

In 2007, Tormé contributed lead guitar and sitar parts to "Smile In Denial", track #4 of Yoni, a solo album from Wildhearts frontman Ginger.

Bharat Gupt

Bharat Gupt, A retired Associate Professor in English, who taught at the College of Vocational Studies of the University of Delhi, is an Indian classicist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, cultural analyst, and newspaper columnist.

Budhaditya Mukherjee

In 1995, he started recording on the surbahar (bass sitar), first as a two-part series (Brilliance of Sound) for Beethoven Records in Kolkata (ragas Yaman and Marwa), then raga Komal re Asavari for RPG/HMV on Tribute to My Father, My Guru (STCS 850362).

Changes Come

Paul Moak - Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Pedal Steel, Sitar, Backing Vocals

Fauzia Yasmin

She, along with her husband Mobarak Hossain Khan, is currently involved in planning, and research of a popular TV musical program on NTV (Bangladesh), Bajo ebong Bajao, which features sangat (co-performance) of Raag based Nazrul Sangeet with Sitar, Sarod, and other classical instruments.

Hiren Roy

Born in Bangladesh in 1920, Roy went to Kolkata at the age of 12 to learn the art of sitar playing.

Imrat Khan

Imrat has five sons, Nishat, Irshad, Wajahat and Shafaatullah,and Azmat Khan, now only eight; the first four sons are all classical musicians: Nishat plays the sitar, Wajahat concentrates on the sarod and Shafaatullah is accomplished on sitar, tabla, and surbahar.

Inger Lorre

Lorre's vocals are featured on "Angel Mine" while Jeff played guitar, sitar, and mouth sax on the track, released on the Jack Kerouac tribute album Kicks Joy Darkness.

Irshad Khan

As one of the foremost representatives of the Imdadkhani Etawa Gharana, Irshad Khan is internationally recognized as one a leading sitar players and as the leading surbahar (bass sitar) exponent of his generation.

Kopecky

William Kopecky, 4 string fretless and 6 string fretted basses, keyboards, and sitar

Maihar gharana

Prominent musicians belonging to the Maihar gharana include sitarists late Ravi Shankar and late Nikhil Banerjee, Allauddin Khan's son sarod player late Ali Akbar Khan, daughter Annapurna Devi and grandsons Aashish Khan and late Dhyanesh Khan.

Megazebra

Apart from Goeldner and Godager, the MegaZebra board consists of Sitar Teli from Doughty Hanson, Matthias Hornberger from Kizoo, and Mark Gazecki of the founders.

Nabadwipchandra Dev Burman

Mahamanyabar Rajkumar Srila-Srijukta Nabadwipchandra Dev Burman (1854 - September 5, 1931), also transliterated as Nabadwip Chandra Deb Barman, was a noted Indian sitarist and Dhrupad singer.

Natya Shastra

Sarana Chatushtai in recent centuries has been demonstrated and proven by Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan in the year 1998 on flute as well as on sitar (this has also helped him develop a methodology for producing perfectly tuned flutes for different thatas).

Nazir Jairazbhoy

In 1967, credited as "Soma", he played sitar on the Incredible String Band's album The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion.

Pitambar Deva Goswami

He learnt Ayurveda, took lessons in classical music both vocal and instrumental (Sitar, Violin and Harmonium), invited experts from Calcutta to the Sattra, along with the traditional Sattriya from senior Sattra exponents.

Porodična Manufaktura Crnog Hleba

The painter Dobrivoje Petrović performed with the band, playing sitar.

Premadasa Hegoda

He composed the first sitar concerto in Japan, sponsored by Nihon Television, which was performed with the Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Purple Onion

"D's Diner," a tribute to a Sebastopol, California restaurant, features sitar player Gabby La La in addition to the triple-bass onslaught of Claypool, Norwood Fisher (Fishbone) and Lonnie Marshall (Weapon of Choice).

Rabindra Sangeet

The drama commenced with pleasing music of orchestra and it was also accompanied by Indian musical instruments such as the esraj, the Sitar, the Sarangi, the Pakhvaj etc.

Reenat Fauzia

After taking lessons on Sitar for twelve years, she joined participating in programs of Bangladesh Television and Bangladesh Betar (Radio Bangladesh).

Rubber Soul Project

The album included a sitar George Harrison style track with called "Indian Rope Trick", rock 'n' roll songs "Home", "When I Come To Town", and "Bound By Love", psychedelic "Colliding Circles", "Watching Rainbows", and "Rubber Soul".

Rusholme Rock

Two covers exist, 'I Fought the Law' (originally written by Sonny Curtis of The Crickets in 1959) and 'My Sitar' which is an acoustic/military tabla version of My Star, the top ten chart song written by Ian Brown and Aziz Ibrahim.

Shankar

Anoushka Shankar (born 1981), Indian sitar player and composer in the United States, daughter of Ravi Shankar

Shimul Zaman

Now in St. Louis, MO she is fortunate to have Ustad Imrat Khan as a teacher for Sitar and vocal.

Shivnath Mishra

Mr. Mishra has played Sitar in the Condolence Meeting of Late Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi, held at the Indian Embassy in Boon, Germany at the occasion of assassination of Mrs. Gandhi.

Shlomo Bar

The original lineup was Samson Kehimkar, an Indian violin and sitar virtuoso, Miguel Herstein, an American guitarist, the bassist Yisrael Borochov, and Bar on percussion and vocals.

Stupid Stupid Stupid

Danny Saber - bass, guitar, keyboards, sitar + producer, arranger, engineer

Tara Bir Singh Tuladhar

Tara Bir Singh Tuladhar was leader and Associate Professor of the Sitar master class at Padma Kanya Multiple College under Tribhuvan University, Nepal, from 1974 until his retirement in 2006.

Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain

Parts of this song come from a larger composition intended for sitar player Krishna Bhatt.

The Albert Palace

Cat shows, bird shows and flower shows were also held, and for his ‘Indian Village’ Arthur Lasenby Liberty brought to The Albert Palace silk spinners and weavers, carpet makers, metal workers, sandalwood carvers, embroiderers, a sitar maker, singers, dancers, jugglers and snake-charmers from India.

The Mirror Conspiracy

#"Lebanese Blonde" – 4:48 (with Pam Bricker) (vocals by Pam Bricker, sitar by Rob Myers, horns by Rick Harris, percussion by Roberto Berimbao)

The Twain Shall Meet

Reviewer Bruce Elder of Allmusic describes the song "All Is One" as "unique in the history of pop music as a psychedelic piece, mixing bagpipes, sitar, oboes, horns, flutes, and a fairly idiotic lyric, all within the framework of a piece that picks up its tempo like the dance music from Zorba the Greek while mimicking the Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'".

Tonic Rays

In a June 2008 review for online music magazine Blurt, rock critic Chuck Eddy described The Tonic Rays' sound as a 'rustic, sitar-spiced, and surprisingly catchy species of psychedelic folk-rock that Jefferson Airplane or the Shocking Blue might recognize.'

Wahid Khan

Ustad Wahid Khan is the paternal uncle of noted sitar player Ustad Vilayat Khan and the famous surbahar player Ustad Imrat Khan.


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