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As Zakir Hussain is a master percussionist and Pt Hari Prasad Chaurasia, (God that's hard to say if your from the west), is a master on Indian flute. I will start with these two mediums of expression. Firstly, rhythm, and then the melody. Not to mention that beautiful zitar hovering in the background providing a rich carpet to fly upon. This commentary is really only valid if you listen to the video concert below and it is 1.5 hours long. I realize that it's not the regular time for a music track, but if you have spring cleaning to do, just put it on and you wont even see the mess.
No but seriously if you take the time to listen to the whole track and let it take you where they can take you, you will start to feel the healing power of this music.
Pt Hari Prasad Charasia says that it is the job of the musician to take us into space, and that is in fact what he does. Indian music is more abstract rhythmically than the western music we are used to, so we can relax first of all and let our-selves open to these new possibilities. Zakir Hussein enters the music about one third into the concert and continues to ascend into a blessed discussion with the creator. You can't believe what you are hearing, it's silly to try and put it into words, but the rhythmic patterns he gives us here, will break open your minds listenening capacity to hear things you have never heard before, and wakens up your senses to receive this knowledge. Why do I say knowledge, because it is. Wisdom also. Playing an instrument is about communicating, and receiving, and we commmunicate in music, thoughts and emotions without the use of words. Knowledge, wisdom, yes really. In the words of Jimi Hendrix "knowledge talks and wisdom listens" That is why it is almost impossible to put into words what is happening here, it's simply something that passes through your body in the form of vibration, and heals it as it uplifts the spirit, and the body follows.
Sometimes in the tabla bass sounds, you can feel the bass vibrating in your belly energy center, and you realize this is no ordinary music.
It is the power of the invisible on the physical. Like wind moving water. Musicians and artists talk to the higher energies, spirits, God, call it whatever you want to call it every day. First we must receive in the form of inspiration and then to communicate to the ears that hear.
That's it, angel's work. So let this music heal you, if you are not used to Indian music , give it a chance, and put it on while you do something else.
Rhythm is a skill of cutting or interpreting time. To place into the here and now time rhythmic definiton. Zakir gives us magnificent complex rhythms to digest, and helps to balance our minds. Passing through our bodies, and stimulating our senses.
Remember musicians talk without words, but there are words within the music.
The questions and answers of the heavens.
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