Introduction

Eb'adat – Ragini Yamani is a 1995 studio album featuring a collaboration between sitarist Ustad Vilayat Khan and shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan. The label Navras Records released the recording on compact disc.

The album opens with the track Introduction, listed as the first composition on the release. The piece spans 4 minutes and 39 seconds. The recording captures an improvisational exchange between the two artists, blending the tonal textures of the sitar and shehnai within the framework of Ragini Yamani, a raga associated with the late evening or early night thaat. The context of the session suggests a live-to-tape studio performance, though specific production details remain undocumented.

Vilayat Khan and Bismillah Khan represented distinct gharanas and instrumental traditions within Hindustani classical music. Khan’s sitar playing incorporated elements of the Gayaki ang (vocal-style phrasing), while Bismillah Khan’s shehnai technique drew from the Benaras gharana’s emphasis on breath control and melodic ornamentation. The album title Eb'adat translates to \"worship\" in Urdu, reflecting the devotional and meditative character of the raga presentation.

Navras Records, the label behind the release, specialized in classical and semi-classical Indian music during the 1990s. The CD format allowed for higher fidelity reproduction of the instruments’ overtone-rich timbres. No additional session musicians or accompanying artists are credited in available sources. The remaining tracks on the album and their structural relationship to Introduction are not specified in the provided context.