Dhun in Mishra Khamaj (Banaresi Dadra)

Dhun in Mishra Khamaj (Banaresi Dadra) is a track from the album A Soul of Benares, released on an unspecified date in 2013 under the label Bihaan Music. The composition spans 16 minutes and 8 seconds and occupies the second position in the album’s tracklist.

The piece features a traditional dhun (melodic composition) set in the raga Mishra Khamaj, a variant of the parent raga Khamaj with added komal (flattened) and tivra (sharp) notes. The performance adopts the Banaresi dadra style, a light-classical form associated with the Benares gharana, characterized by rhythmic flexibility and lyrical phrasing in a six-beat (dadra tal) cycle.

The recording credits three artists: Shivnath Mishra on sitar, Deobrat Mishra on vocal, and Prashant Mishra on tabla. Shivnath Mishra leads the instrumental exposition with sitar, while Deobrat Mishra renders the vocal sections in the dadra format. Prashant Mishra provides percussive accompaniment on the tabla, maintaining the cyclic structure of the composition. The album A Soul of Benares centers on the classical and semi-classical traditions of Varanasi (Benares), though further details about its production, additional tracks, or reception remain undocumented in the provided context.