Kushal, by Ustad Shahid Parvez

Kushal

by Ustad Shahid Parvez

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It comes in a jewel box case with a 8 pages booklet in a ocre background, Essay by indian musicologist Vamanan about about Shahi style and raga peculiarities.

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	1.	Raga Shyam Kalyan (Alap) 32:04	info	buy track
	2.	Raga Shyam Kalyan (gat) 33:32	info	buy track

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Ustad Shahid Parvez, sitar master, in a live performance of
Raga Shyam Kalyan with maestro Sankha Chatterjee on tabla.
The raga featured on Kushal is called Shyam Kalyan which according to its classification should be played at dusk. SHAHID PARVEZ tackles it with the maturity of a great artist, showing an ability to inject each new performance with the sense of warmth, dignity and grace without which music means very little. Right from the opening notes the listener cannot help but be captivated and absorbed into the musician’s world, a realm of thrilling vibrations and exquisite timbres through which one is suddenly transported from an atmosphere of meditative calm to one of great animation and creative excitement. In the first part of the raga which steadily unfolds in a relatively slow, reflective tempo SHAHID PARVEZ ‘s style is limpid and flowing, full of the subtle melodic contrasts and variations one expects from the best Indian classical music. The second half, in contrast, builds to a virtuosic crescendo, gradually shifting the initial slow tempo up to a powerful rhythmic frenzy. PARVEZ’s consistently graceful playing is ably supported by the tabla of Sanka Chatterjee, the two artists engaging in a musical dialogue of dazzling complexity and fecundity.
With this live set SHAHID PARVEZ confirms once again his position as one of the greatest Indian classical instrumentalists, taking his rightful place among a noble family of musicians (he is the nephew of the celebrated Vilayat Khan, 1924-2004) after having honed his extraordinary talent through rigorous discipline and hard study. Following in the path of the gharana masters of Etawah, a prestigious school founded in the early 19th century, Parvez has assimilated their teachings (centred around the transposition of gaayaki vocal style), forging his own uniquely personal style and sound and becoming himself a model for younger musicians.

credits

released November 3, 2022

Recorded live at Gong Concert Series at Borgo Medievale in Torino (Italy) on August 10th, 2004.
Sound engineer, mixing Igor Sciavolino
Design Marzia Ardissono, Fuocofisso
Album coordination Renzo Pognant Gros
Many thanks to Sankha Chatterjee, Franco Rivoira, Mariella Calfus and all the staff at Borgo Medioevale for making the recording and the CD possible.