David Dalle
Thursday November 20th, 2014 with David Dalle
Persian music with Salar Aghili; Carnatic-Hindusthani-Rajasthani-Jazz fusions with Shashank, Arun Ramamurthy

We begin today's show with Havaye Aftab, a piece by sung by the powerful Persian singer Salar Aghili with the Ghamar Ensemble led by Barbat player Navid Dehghan. Salar Aghili will be performing in Ottawa on Saturday, December 13th at the University of Ottawa. For his performance he will be joined by Iranian Tar player Keyvan Saket and the Persian-Canadian Baarbad Ensemble from Toronto. Salar Aghili is a wonderful singer I've heard several times before, and I can't wait to hear him again. We also hear two fascinating Carnatic-based fusions. The first is an all-Indian fusion with Carnatic flautist Shashank joining with Hindusthani sitarist Subendra Rao, Rajasthani folk singer Anwar Khan and Kamancha player Ghewar Khan, and joined by three percussionists from all three traditions on mridangam, tabla, dholak. The second is the terrific recent album from the Arun Ramamurthy Trio, a Carnatic-Jazz trio with Arun Ramamurthy on Carnatic violin joined by doublebass and drums which we've heard before, but definitely worth hearing more from.