http://www.sawf.org/bin/tips.dll/get...Music&start=-1

Anyone into Indian classical music? I'm trying.

I like this website the best so far...very generous with the audio samples. I'm going through the Raga Multani page right now.

If you have any links to other sites like this...let me know!

Its absolutely amazing as ive spent two yrs of my life into it.But dont know how many in here can develop taste for it.

I just looked up Ali Akbar Khan. Found some sound samples from the album Journey (not to be confused with Arthur Brown!).

Despite my complete ignorance in this area...this record sounds VERY westernized to me...a lot of familiar harmonic progressions. From the little I've learned so far, I don't think Indian Classical Music is supposed to have any harmonic accompaniment underneath the modes, (ragas, melodies...whatever you want to call them).

I guess there's a lot of this "western influence" going on. It may still be good music and everything. Nevertheless, I'm only interested in its untainted form for now.

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Correect..Indian Music has become too much westernized offlate.But im sure u can still find some typical Indian classical content very easily.

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I agree with you, Ali Akbar Khan is one of the more 'Westernised' Indian Classical Performers. I've heard Ali Akbar Khan's Morning & Evening Ragas (from 1966), it is a pleasent album, but I know of more original and more authentic indian classical music than Ali Akbar Khan.

I'll make a full list of some of my favourites in a while because I really do love Indian Classical Music.

My absolute favourite Indian Classical Musician is the North Indian Traditional Raga Vocalist Pandit Pran Nath.

Pandit Pran Nath had a great effect on many Western perfromers, however he always kept true to his music, never watering down at all.

He was the 'guru' of many of the key composers of the 2nd half of the 20th Century, composers that included LaMonte Young and Terry Riley. Pandit Pran Nath also tutored several important jazz musicians including Don Cherry and Lee Konitz.

Out of all the Indian Vocalists I have heard, Pandit has the most pure voice of any of them.

Sadly most of his albums are out of print, and the only recording that is available commercially, is one 11 minute track which he recorded with the Kronos Quartet on the Kronos Quartet's 'Short Stories'.

Pandit Pran Nath was the first Indian musician that had a profound impact on me. He has the most amazing voice I have ever heard, and everyone should at least listen to the piece on Kronos Quartet's Short Stories.

Here is a picture of Pandit Pran Nath

God u know more than me...although i belong to North India...cool Geoff

I also like Ustad Bary Fateh Ali Khan. Another wonderful vocalist, this time from Pakistan (for which the music is very similar to India's Northen Classical Music style).

You can listen to some samples of Ustad Bary Fateh Ali Khan at

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...59368?v=glance