ANOUSHKA SHANKAR - Ancient Love
The cd RISE, from 2005, is Anoushka Shankar's first free composition.
She explores new ways to blend sound and music and with the deep and personal knowledge of the classical indian ragas she has the blessed opportunity to create the sweetest, heartmelting melodies, which leaves the listener speechless and stunned -
one just have to hear it again, and again, and again...
In Rise she does what we all have been dreaming of - she plays the same sweet melody
in different variations and settings.
I have chosen six of them to my visual soundscapes and they form a kind of mantric meditation which gradually grows in intensity. In the last tune, Ancient Love, the whole musical journey finds it´s fulness of emotion.
When i started to listen i wondered why Anoushka played with such loose strings?
It took awhile before an emotional memory told me what it was. I have felt the same.
It is Love that makes us loose all boundaries. It opens up a totally new world inside us.
Anoushka Shankar is the first female sitar player known to the international public and we can only compare her to male sitar players. This should make it easy to find a the differences - I assume it's easier for women to play on loose strings.
I hope you will enjoy the journey through the soundscapes.
Please, don't forget to share what you see and hear on your journey.
Music is communication and communication can be music:)"
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