Raga Kirwani: Gat in Adital/Teental

Sangeet Sangam is a collaborative studio album by violinist L. Subramaniam and sitarist Rais Khan, released in April 2006 under Navras Records. The album presents a fusion of North and South Indian classical traditions through jugalbandi (duet) performances. The primary format of the release is a commercial audio CD.

The second track, titled Raga Kirwani: Gat in Adital/Teental, spans 21 minutes and 2 seconds. The composition follows the Kirwani raga, a melodic framework shared across Hindustani and Carnatic systems, and employs the Adital (16-beat) and Teental (16-beat) rhythmic cycles. Subramaniam performs on the violin, while Khan plays the sitar. The track exemplifies improvisational interplay, with alternating alaap (melodic elaboration), jor, and gat (fixed composition) sections characteristic of the jugalbandi format.

The album cover and liner notes provide minimal contextual details about the recording sessions, session musicians, or production personnel. The label credits Navras Records as the distributor, but specific recording locations, engineers, or additional accompanying artists remain undocumented in available sources. The release date is confirmed as April 2006, with no subsequent reissues or remastered editions publicly listed.

Critically, Sangeet Sangam contributes to the discourse on cross-stylistic collaboration in Indian classical music, though reception details and commercial performance metrics are not widely archived. The album’s tracklist beyond the second composition is partially documented, with the full sequence and total runtime unverified in this context.