For me, the most mesmerising thing about this performance is Panditji's "Na". The pressure and precision is astounding. Each strike of "Na" seems to draw the attention of the listeners.
Why just his .."na" ...all of his syllables are super clear; and the best case they are "super clear" even at high speed tempo. That is something that I have seen many seasoned tabla players fail at ... but not him.
Ut. Ali Akhbar Khan never tried to perform on a stage of public function ,to gain cheap popularity of the Audience as he always played ,keeping his eyes.fixed on his instrument of Sarode or keeping these closed sometimes without paying any attention to the applause of the audience.
Hem Bihag was a Raga ,created by his father,Ut Alauddin Khan, blending Hemanta with Bihag. This performance of Ustadji is superb. Nikhil Babu also played this Rage in his rendition of sitar ,very beautifully. Such a melodious Raga .
🙏🙏🙏🌞🤩😍DhrubaJi teach me this song..we wanted to play it in our concert together...our concert finished with Kirwani though...and then..it never happened..😔May he rest in peace👼. My love is forever with him. I play this song now in my concerts...alone...😥😔🙏
I attended many a live concert of AAK, never close enough setting to observe his left hand/fingers. This is absolutely mesmerizing! Poor Manik, he was too young at the time to be put on stage, his head kept moving, turning, bobbing then turning side to side some more....:) RIP KhanSahib, RIP James Pomerantz. Thank you David for sharing this, quite an effort recording this so nicely, in 1996 nevertheless!
How sweet! Ahh, this isn’t me on stage, actually. This is our nephew, Shiraz. My baba’s alap used to put me in a trance, so I may have been passed out backstage or in the front row, haha.
