Holysmoke Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Anybody have more songs from this group? Check this song out!... What is the instrument that they are using? It is very much like a violin, but i dont think it is.. Listen to the song, Ull know what I am talking about Can anybody enlighten me? Does anybody have more songs with that instrument? I find it really soothing Click here to listen to Alms-for-Shanti---Kashmakash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumble_rocks Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Re: Alms for Shanti This was a spin off by Indus creed , the great indian rock band of yesteryears. In fact , Uday benegal was the lead vocal in Indus creed who started this band. Anyway , to answer your question the instrument sounds like sarangi to me. It is particularly popular in NE. I know , they used to use it when they were part of Indus creed also. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ArRzdS4jF0Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Re: Alms for Shanti Good song there Holy... :wtg: KR is right it is sarangi. The sound is quite similar to violin. I wouldnt be surprised if its some sort of violin and not sarangi but it has to be one of the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holysmoke Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 Re: Alms for Shanti The Sarangi (Hindi : सारंगी) is a bowed string instrument of India, Nepal and Pakistan. It is the most important bowed string instrument of India's Hindustani classical music tradition. Of all Indian instruments, it is said to get closest to the sound of the human voice ? able to imitate vocal ornaments such as gamakas (shakes) and meend (sliding movements). Sarangi music is vocal music. It is quite impossible to find a sarangi player who does not know the words of many classical songs. The words are usually mentally present during performance, and performance almost always adheres to the conventions of vocal performance including the organisational structure, the types of elaboration, the tempo, the relationship between sound and silence, and the presentation of khyal and thumri compositions. The vocal quality of sarangi is in a quite separate category from, for instance, the so-called gayaki-ang of sitar which attempts to imitate the nuances of khyal while overall conforming to the structures and usually keeping to the gat compositions of instrumental music. In the words of Sir Yehudi Menuhin on Ram Narayan and his Sarangi: "The Sarangi remains not only the authentic and original Indian bowed stringed instrument but the one which most poignantly, and in the hands of Ram Narayan, most revealingly expresses the very soul of Indian feeling and thought. I cannot separate the Sarangi from Ram Narayan, so thoroughly fused are they, not only in my memory but in the fact of this sublime dedication of a great musician to an instrument which is no longer archaic because of the matchless way he has made it speak." Carved from a single block of wood, the sarangi has a box-like shape, usually around two feet long and around half a foot wide. The lower resonance chamber is hollowed out and covered with parchment and a decorated strip of leather at the waist which supports the elephant-shaped bridge. The bridge in turn supports the huge pressure of approximately 40 strings. Three of the strings ? the comparatively thick, tight and short ones ? are bowed with a heavy horsehair bow and "stopped" not with the finger-tips but with the nails, cuticles and surrounding flesh (talcum powder is applied to the fingers as a lubricant). The remaining strings are resonance strings or tarabs (see: sympathetic strings), numbering up to around 35, divided into 4 different "choirs". On the lowest level are a diatonic row of 9 tarabs and a chromatic row of 15 tarabs, each encompassing a full octave plus 1?3 extra notes above or below. Between these lower tarabs and the main playing strings lie two more sets of longer tarabs, which pass over a small flat ivory bridge at the top of the instrument. These are tuned to the important tones (svaras) of the raga. A properly tuned sarangi will hum and buzz like a bee-hive, with tones played on any of the main strings eliciting echo-like resonances. Famously difficult to play and tune, the sarangi has traditionally been used primarily for accompanying singers (shadowing the vocalist's improvisations), but in recent times it has become recognised as a solo instrument used for full raga development ? thanks to the single handed efforts of Pandit Ram Narayan. Other current celebrated performers include Aruna Narayan Kalle, Sultan Khan and Sabri Khan; eminent maestros of the past have included Ustad Bundu Khan, Ustad Md. Sagiruddin Khan and Pandit Gopal Mishra. The repertoire of sarangi players is traditionally very closely related to vocal music. Nevertheless, a concert with a solo sarangi as the main item will probably include a full-scale raga presentation with an extensive alapa (the unmeasured improvisatory development of the raga) in increasing intensity (alapa-jhor-jhala) and several compositions in increasing tempi. As such, it is on a par with other instrumental styles such as for sitar, sarod, bansuri. This full-fledged raga development has its roots in the Dhrupad style of raga presentation. The sarangi is also a traditional stringed musical instrument of Nepal, commonly played by the oppressed Gaine or Gandarbha ethnic group. :wtg: Does anyone have any Sarangi music? :chin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Re: Alms for Shanti I like it. Btw is it jus me or the singer looks like that doofus from Dil Chahta hai. One baloon every day luv shaped wala, traffic signal me milta hai woh.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holysmoke Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 Re: Alms for Shanti The part from 2:06 to 2:23 is mind blowing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varun Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Re: Alms for Shanti Great music. Hate the vocals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooda Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Re: Alms for Shanti I really like Kashmakash...great song. haven't heard anything else by them though.. http://www.almsforshanti.com/ Theres a Indian rock band called Parikrama who are great too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Re: Alms for Shanti KR that is one fantastic number. Beautiful guitar and cool beats to go with it. Is this the Indian rock? I think I've heard about Indus Creed before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumble_rocks Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Re: Alms for Shanti KR that is one fantastic number. Beautiful guitar and cool beats to go with it. Is this the Indian rock? I think I've heard about Indus Creed before. Yes. It was one of the earliest reasonably successful band. It was originally called Rock Machine and later they changed their name to Indus Creed . I remember attending their live show in Mysore long time ago. Awesome group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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