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artist : Shiv Kumar Sharma
title : Sound Scapes - Music of the Mountains
year : 1993
label : Living Media India
cat : CD-M 93028
url : n/a
date : Apr-30-2003
genre : Meditative
quality : 192kbps / 44.1kHz / Full Stereo
source : CDDA
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01 Himalayan Dawn
02 Sunrise On The Peaks
03 Spirit Of Kashmir
04 Echoes From The Valley
05 Mountain Love Song
06 Evening Prayer
07 Ballad
08 Twilight Shadows
09 Springtime
10 Shikara By Moonlight
10 tracks | 60:09 min | 82,7 MB
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Shivkumar Sharma is one of the truly great visionaries in the
Hindustani classical music firmament. His popularity has created a
knotty problem for his admirers. Popularity has led to a demand for
recordings by him, to a degree that having a Shivkumar Sharma album
acts like a kind of validation for a label. Consequently the market
is flooded with his recordings. His playing is consummate, therefore
he is unlikely to produce a piece of work that is below par, which
makes selecting a shortlist even more difficult.
Sharma's story is one of dedication. He was born in January 1938 in
Jammu Kashmir. His father Uma Dutt Sharma asked him to pursue the
development of the Kashmiri santoor. Being a dutiful son he obeyed
and persevered despite private reservations. Though its Persian
relative, the santur, had associations with Persian and Iranian
classical music, elevating the Indian instrument to the classical
concert platform was widely viewed as folly in conservative
quarters. But Shivkumar Sharma persisted, experimented, restrung
and reconfigured his instrument. His first major santoor recital
took place in Bombay in February 1955, but it took, he reckons,
until the 1970s to finally silence the querulous, "the die-hard
connoisseurs of the music, musicologists and purists." Parallel
with his development of the santoor he worked as a tabla player
(he accompanied acts as diverse as the renowned Punjabi folksinger
Surinder Kaur and sitar maestro Ravi Shankar), and his understanding
of tabla playing and rhythm has immeasurably enhanced his
performance style and stagecraft. -- Ken Hunt
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