DAGAR, USTAD ZIA MOHIUDDIN - Raga Yaman

"Around ten years ago, deep into a cozy and hazy night following a concert with my sound brothers Daniel OSullivan and Kristoffer Rygg in London (as Æthenor), they graciously introduced me to a recording of rudra veena (a kind of noble deeper bass relative to the sitar, in a way) as performed by dhrupad master Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. Dhrupad is a branch of Hindustani classical music said to show the raga in its clearest and purest form. Its pacing concentrates heavily on the slow, contemplative alap section and works with specific microtonal gestures and deep characteristics of resonance . . . In early 2015 I was able to make contact with Zia Mohiuddin Dagars son Bahauddin and some of his American students/disciples, primarily Jeff Lewis. Over time we developed a friendly and educational exchange, access to a massive archive of recordings and developed these two paired titles for my label . . . Im proud to be able to reveal these to date unreleased archival recordings of one of the maste