The work, documented.
Every image and recording here comes from a live performance, a teaching session, or an instrument in active use. Nothing staged, nothing reconstructed.
Hands. Instruments. Presence.
Let the raga speak first.
Evening concert with Ally Adnan & Akbar Ali
Ustad Shafqat & Haroon Samuel - Edison NJ
A full-length vilambit and drut gat recorded at a winter concert. Forty minutes of unedited performance, no cuts.
Recorded after the formal program, when the audience had thinned and the musicians played for each other. Unannounced, unrehearsed.
Artists doing the work their gurus taught.
Ustad Farhan Ali
Haroon Samuel
Vidushi Nasreen Qureshi
Sitar — Imdadkhani gharana. Thirty years of study under Ustad Imrat Khan's lineage. Based in Toronto.
Tabla — Punjab gharana. Student of Ustad Umer Hayat Active performer and teaching faculty.
Sarangi — Delhi tradition. One of few active female sarangi practitioners in North America. Performs and teaches.
All artists presented have trained within a recognized gharana under direct guru-shishya transmission. No exceptions.