‘instrumental fusion album on Sitar’
Talking Strings, an ‘instrumental fusion album on Sitar’ featuring
Sitarist Sita Maiya Rajchal was lunched at a programme organised at the
Nepal Tourism Board, Pradarshani Marg on May 16.
The instrumental album was launched jointly by Indian Ambassador Jayant Prasad and Vice Chancellor of the Nepal Academy of Music and Drama Prachanda Malla. It features guitarists Anil Shahi, Dipak Thapa, Dipesh Singh, Anup Das, and Will, along with JB Lama and Binaya Maharjan on the flute. Santosh Bhakta Shrestha has been featured on the Esraj while Laxmi Prasad Dangol plays percussion along with Kenjuma Subba as well as soprano Rabin Karki Dhali.
Rajchal, and a few other members of the musical crew gave a heart rendering live performance on Wave of Emotion, a six-minute instrumental taken from the album being launched. The album consists of seven other tracks composed by Joogle Dangol, a known name in the Nepali music industry.
The album, a fusion of Eastern and Western classical music hopes to receive attention from a youth-base that is increasingly stepping away from classical music. Each track on Talking Strings is composed with a different theme in mind and tells its own story. “I feel that instrumental music can be more powerful and meaningful than lyrical songs,” says Dngol. “Lyrics can be inhibiting while
stories told solely through instruments are more philosophical.”
The instrumental album was launched jointly by Indian Ambassador Jayant Prasad and Vice Chancellor of the Nepal Academy of Music and Drama Prachanda Malla. It features guitarists Anil Shahi, Dipak Thapa, Dipesh Singh, Anup Das, and Will, along with JB Lama and Binaya Maharjan on the flute. Santosh Bhakta Shrestha has been featured on the Esraj while Laxmi Prasad Dangol plays percussion along with Kenjuma Subba as well as soprano Rabin Karki Dhali.
Rajchal, and a few other members of the musical crew gave a heart rendering live performance on Wave of Emotion, a six-minute instrumental taken from the album being launched. The album consists of seven other tracks composed by Joogle Dangol, a known name in the Nepali music industry.
The album, a fusion of Eastern and Western classical music hopes to receive attention from a youth-base that is increasingly stepping away from classical music. Each track on Talking Strings is composed with a different theme in mind and tells its own story. “I feel that instrumental music can be more powerful and meaningful than lyrical songs,” says Dngol. “Lyrics can be inhibiting while
stories told solely through instruments are more philosophical.”
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