Dec 01, 2002 06:03 PM
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Impressions indiennes
Indis is a land of sages, snake charmers, palanquin bearers or caravans trading silk and spices, this was thw myth of the average westerner for a long time.But now India ia ages ahead from this .The present day sights and sounds of India are those that one experiences in any developed part of the globe .Yet the stark contrast of the past and present creates a series of modern age symphony from ripples in the sensitive heart and mind .And so it has in the works of .a modern French composer of music.He released his early albums in 1987 in the media field as the tv, radio amd film industry was a hungry consumer of music and commercially released his first project imn 1991 .I prefer his AJANTA as the best, released in 2000.But for me it’s released last day, when my frieng gave it as a present.
* *Ajanta, as the title of the album states, is an Indian impression .The entire album is a sensitive study of transformation of sights into sound.One can even say that it is a musical travelogue created with modern idioms of musical expressions .For eg, the piece jantar mantar, marked ‘mysterious’ for the listener, starts with a voice singing on alaap in raag malkauns in the Hindustani classical mode.Layered with synthesizers, piano, swarsangam, tabla, cymbals, shakers, flutes, sitars………………-the music hlps one revisit lodhi garden, fatehpur sikri, in a modern soundscape.
