Raga Hindole

Master of the Bamboo Flute Volume II is a studio album released in 1989 under the Navras Records label. The recording features a collaboration between bansuri flute virtuoso G.S. Sachdev and tabla maestro Zakir Hussain. The album showcases North Indian classical music with an emphasis on improvisational alaap, jor, and jhala sections followed by composed gat performances in traditional ragas.

The opening track Raga Hindole spans 26 minutes and 40 seconds. Sachdev performs the raga on the bansuri in the lower octave, adhering to the Kafi thaat framework with characteristic komal gandhar and shuddha nishad phrases. Hussain accompanies on the tabla, employing intricate theka patterns of Teentaal in the rhythmic sections. The composition progresses through a slow vilambit exposition in ektaal before transitioning to a faster drut segment in teentaal. The track concludes with a tihai and a gradual deceleration.

The album format consists of a single long-form raga presentation per side, typical of classical Indian recordings from the late 20th century. Production credits and additional session details remain undocumented in widely available sources. The release is part of a two-volume series, though the second installment focuses exclusively on Sachdev’s solo and collaborative works without further contributions from Hussain in other tracks.

Reception data for Master of the Bamboo Flute Volume II is limited, but the album is cited in discographies of both artists as a representative example of their work in the khayal-influenced instrumental tradition. The recording circulates primarily in LP and cassette formats, with later unofficial digital distributions emerging in the 2000s.