Raga: Puriya Kalyan (Bandish in Drut Teental)

Garland of Ragas is a studio album of North Indian classical music released on May 10, 2010, under the Aimrec label. The recording features vocal performances in the khayal tradition, accompanied by instrumental support. The primary format of the release is compact disc.

The second track on the album presents a bandish in Raga Puriya Kalyan, set to drut teental, a 16-beat rhythmic cycle. The composition spans 10 minutes and 18 seconds. Vocalist Mashkoor Ali Khan performs the raga, with Enayet Hossain providing tabla accompaniment. The track adheres to the structural conventions of khayal, incorporating alaap, bol-banaav, and taan sections, though specific lyrical or melodic details of the bandish remain undocumented in available sources.

The album title suggests a compilation-style presentation of multiple ragas, but the full tracklist, additional contributing artists, and production personnel are not specified in the provided context. The label Aimrec has released other classical and semi-classical recordings, though its broader catalog and the album’s reception or commercial performance are not detailed here.

Raga Puriya Kalyan belongs to the Kalyan thaat and is traditionally performed in the late evening. The raga’s characteristic phrases include the use of komal re (flattened second) and shuddha ma (natural fourth), with an emphasis on ga-ma (third and fourth) and ni-sa (seventh and tonic) in descent. The album’s rendition follows these melodic conventions, though no published analyses of this specific recording exist.