Sikar

Sultan Khan
4:57
Warren Cuccurullo and Ustad Sultan Khan released Sikar in 2014 on The Master, fusing electric guitar with sarangi in a 4:57 posthumous collaboration.
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\"Sikar\" is a collaborative track by American guitarist Warren Cuccurullo and Indian classical musician Ustad Sultan Khan. The composition appears as the fourth track on the album The Master, released on July 22, 2014, under Six Degrees Records. The album adopts a fusion format that blends Western electric guitar with traditional Indian classical instruments, primarily the sarangi.

The track spans 4 minutes and 57 seconds. It exemplifies the cross-cultural exchange between Cuccurullo’s rock and jazz-influenced guitar techniques and Khan’s mastery of the sarangi, a bowed string instrument central to Hindustani classical music. The album The Master was issued in CD format, with no confirmed details about digital or vinyl releases at the time of this entry.

Context regarding the recording sessions, lyrical content, or specific raga structure of \"Sikar\" remains undocumented in available sources. The album itself serves as a posthumous release for Sultan Khan, who passed away in 2011, with Cuccurullo compiling and producing the material from earlier collaborations. Six Degrees Records, a label known for world music and fusion projects, distributed the album globally.

Notable aspects of the track include the interplay between the sarangi and electric guitar, a hallmark of the album’s broader exploration of East-West musical synthesis. No official music videos, live performances, or alternate versions of \"Sikar\" have been verified in public records.