Label: Mississippi Records – MR-031
Format: LP
Vinyl, LP, Unofficial Release
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Released: 2008
Genre: Classical, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Hindustani
Ah so happy to be able to stick this one up – Mississippi Records edition of the 1968 debut LP from immortalised Hindustani classical singer Pandit Pran Nath. A true master in the millennia-old Kirana Gharana singing style originating in the foothills of the Himalaya’s – North India, Pran Nath dedicated every inch of his life to music, living an ascetic life (living alone in a cave for five years) to perfect the eye-wateringly complex vocal techniques his is revered for today, which through his meeting and guruship with the American avant-garde, such as La Monte Young and Terry Riley essentially shifted the musical style axis of the time in favour of a more Eastern style. The slo/embed/o6obwfy6pko” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture” allowfullscreen=””>