About Raga : Ek prakar ki kauns
Raga: Ek Prakar Ki Kauns is a 2010 studio recording of North Indian classical music featuring sitarist Rais Khan and vocalist Manikrao Popatkar. The album presents a single raga performance divided into three tracks, released in digital media format on November 22, 2010. The release date coincided with the official launch event.
Rais Khan performs on the sitar, while Manikrao Popatkar provides vocal support. The album explores Ek Prakar Ki Kauns, a variant of the Kauns raga family. The first track covers the alap, jor, and jhala sections, establishing the raga’s melodic framework. The second track features a vilambit gat in tintal, a slow composition in the 16-beat rhythmic cycle. The third track transitions to a drut gat, a faster composition set in the same tintal.
The recording captures a live-to-studio performance style, emphasizing improvisation within the raga structure. The total runtime spans three tracks, though the exact duration remains undocumented in available sources. No commercial label is credited in the release metadata, suggesting an independent or self-published distribution. The album serves as a documented interpretation of Ek Prakar Ki Kauns by two prominent artists of the Hindustani classical tradition.
Further details regarding production personnel, recording location, or additional contributing musicians are not publicly confirmed. The work stands as a representative example of late 20th- and early 21st-century raga elaboration, blending instrumental and vocal approaches within a single performance framework.