Raga Alahiya Bilawal

Raga Alahiya Bilawal is a Hindustani classical vocal recording by Indian musician Pandit Jasraj. The performance features a rendition of the raga Alahiya Bilawal, a variant of the Bilawal thaat in Hindustani classical music. The recording was released in 1991. The primary format of the release is an audio album.

Pandit Jasraj performs the raga in a traditional khayal style, adhering to the structural conventions of alap, jor, and jhala. The recording includes a vilambit (slow tempo) khayal followed by a drut (fast tempo) composition. The vilambit khayal is set to a 14-beat cycle (jhoomra taal), while the drut composition employs teentaal, a 16-beat cycle.

The album does not specify a record label. The duration of the recording is 27 minutes and 45 seconds. The MusicBrainz Identifier (MBID) for this release is 9117fa28-df28-4bb8-a0e3-b70e60fed262.

Notable features of the performance include Jasraj’s characteristic use of meend (glissando) and gamak (ornamentation) to emphasize the raga’s melodic contours. The recording captures the raga’s characteristic ascent (aroh) and descent (avroh) patterns, highlighting the shuddha (natural) and komal (flat) swaras (notes) specific to Alahiya Bilawal. The lyrics of the compositions are in Braj Bhasha, a literary dialect of Hindi.

The context does not provide additional details about the accompanying musicians or the specific recording session. No further information about the release’s distribution or reception is available.