KIRWANI by PANDIT HARIPRASAD CHAURASIA WITH SAMARPAN

SAMARPAN : PANDIT HARIPRASAD CHAURASIA (Bansuri & Composition), GEORGE BROOKS (Saxophone), GWYNETH WENTINK (Harp), VIJAY GHATE (Tabla) and SHYAMALA RAJENDER (Tanpura) SAMARPAN gave a concert at the Waldorf - Astoria, New York on 16th May 2005 at a Fund-raising Gala Dinner organised by the American India Foundation (AIF). The concert was facilitated, arranged and recorded and filmed by Navras Records. The recordings were released by Navras, courtesy of AIF, under the title KIRWANI (NRCD 6006 and NRDVD 011). We present here an excerpt from the performance - a Gat Composition in Teentaal (16-beat cycle) in Raga Kirwani.