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Raga Khammaj (Rupak Tala)

from Neel Murgai Ensemble by Neel Murgai

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This joyful, romantic raga of the evening is performed here in the classical North Indian manner, with sitar and tabla only. The main melody or gat, is set to Rupak Tala, a cycle of seven beats.

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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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