666449828522

Raga & Raj

Barry Philips, Linda Burman-Hall, Lux Ensemble

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Cat No: CDEMW1011

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Release Date:  08 October 2013

Label:  East Meets West

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  666449828522

Genres:  World Music  

  • Description

    Celebrating Ravi Shankar's life and musical legacy of East-meets-West cultural exchange, Barry Phillips, Linda Burman-Hall and the Lux Musica Ensemble (with guest Debopriyo Sarkar) present a selection of daring, experimental compositions that reflect and re-imagine the musical encounters between North India and British traditions during the late 1780s. Though very different creative languages - Indian music communicates emotion through pitch nuance and elaborate metric foundations, whereas European music relies on simpler meters and melodies in order to convey emotion through harmonic progressions - these two traditions have diversified each other significantly ever since the British Raj, with results that are as complicated as they are beautiful.