Raga Bageshri: Tarana in Drut Teentaal

Purbayan Chatterjee
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Purbayan Chatterjee and Kala Ramnath released Samwad in 2004, blending North and South Indian classical music with sitar-violin dialogue on tracks like Raga Bageshri: Tarana in Drut Teentaal.
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About Raga Bageshri: Tarana in Drut Teentaal

Samwad is a collaborative studio album by Indian classical musicians Purbayan Chatterjee and Kala Ramnath. The artists released the album on CD in 2004 under the label Sense World Music. The recording features a fusion of North and South Indian classical traditions, with Chatterjee performing on the sitar and Ramnath on the violin.

The fourth track, titled Raga Bageshri: Tarana in Drut Teentaal, spans 15 minutes and 5 seconds. The composition adheres to the Bageshri raga, a late-night melodic framework in Hindustani classical music. The piece employs the tarana form, a vocal-style instrumental rendition characterized by rhythmic syllables, and follows the 16-beat drut teentaal cycle. The track showcases the interplay between Chatterjee’s sitar and Ramnath’s violin, accompanied by traditional percussion and tanpura drone.

The album title Samwad translates to \"dialogue\" in Hindi, reflecting the conversational dynamic between the two lead instruments. Additional details about the accompanying artists, recording locations, or production personnel remain undocumented in the provided context. The release date and label confirm its distribution as part of Sense World Music’s catalog of Indian classical and fusion works.