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Charukeshi Monday

from Neel Murgai Ensemble by Neel Murgai

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Based on Raga Charukeshi, this piece includes a traditional gat (melody) from the Maihar Gharana (school of Indian music) that I learned from an old recording of my guru, Pundit Krishna Bhatt. The gat is set to Matta Tala, a rarely heard rhythmic cycle of 9 beats. I analyzed this melody to establish a chord sequence that became a new foundation for textural composition, improvisation and elaboration. These elaborations are punctuated by composed tihais (rhythmic phrase repeated three times) leading back to the melody in a traditional manner.

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from Neel Murgai Ensemble, released May 23, 2017
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Sam Crawford
Additional engineering by Michael Gittleman

Tracks 2,4,5 composed by Neel Murgai
1,3,6 are Murgai’s treatments of traditional material.
Lyrics in 6 by Ghalib
8 by Murgai, Maneri, Gupta, Heffernan

Cover design by Indra Gill
Cover illustration by Matthew Lillis

Special thanks to many people, without whom this music would not be possible:

My teachers: Krishna Bhatt, Edgar Grana, Ravindra Goswami, William Sweeney…
My Family: Jessica Plotnick, Indra Gill, Leith Murgai…
And the many other musicians, teachers, friends and family members who havesupported and inspired me along the way.
neelmurgai@earthlink.net

www.neelmurgai.com

Innova Director: Philip Blackburn
Operations Manager: Chris Campbell
Innova is supported by an endowment from the McKnight Foundation.

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Neel Murgai New York

Neel Murgai is a sitarist, overtone singer, daf player, composer and teacher from Brooklyn, NY. He is a Co-Artistic Director of Brooklyn Raga Massive, a nonprofit musicians collective. Neel has studied sitar for over 20 years with Pundit Krishna Bhatt. He is a graduate of Goddard College's MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program. Neel has also studied overtone singing with Timothy Hill. ... more

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