Raag Chandrakauns - Taal: Teentaal

Jugalbandi – II is a studio album released in October 2011 under the Times Music label. The recording features a collaboration between flute virtuoso Hariprasad Chaurasia, sarod exponent Aashish Khan, and tabla maestro Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri. The album adopts the jugalbandi format, a traditional North Indian classical music structure emphasizing improvisational interplay between lead instrumentalists accompanied by percussion.

The sole track on the release, titled Raag Chandrakauns, spans 34 minutes and 29 seconds. The composition unfolds in Teentaal, a 16-beat rhythmic cycle commonly employed in Hindustani classical performances. The recording captures an extended alaap-jor-jhala progression followed by a layered exposition of the raga, with Chaurasia and Khan alternating melodic phrases while Chaudhuri provides rhythmic support on the tabla. The album format is a single-disc CD, with the track listed as the first and only entry in the release sequence.

Context regarding the recording location, production personnel, or additional session details remains undocumented in available sources. The album extends the artists’ prior collaborative work, notably the original Jugalbandi release, though specific connections between the two projects are not explicitly outlined in the 2011 edition’s accompanying materials.