Shinji Water Mother CD

A music culture as rich as India's, looks to its younger generation to inject fresh ideas, carrying forward its legacy of tradition. In recent years, India has unearthed a remarkable talent who is already receiving plaudits for his contribution to the field of modern sitar playing. Purbayan Chatterjee was born into a family immersed in India's classical music traditions. By the time he was four, he had already begun his musical training. His guide and inspiration has been his father, Partha Chatterjee, a disciple of sitar maestro Nikhil Bannerjee. For the last few years Purbayan has taken guidance from the legendary Sarod player Ali Akbar Khan, and at a relatively young age has already established himself as one of the leading lights of the Senia Maihar Gharana, a style of Sitar playing fashioned by Baba Allauddin Khan. For this recording Purbayan is joined by Satyajit Talwalkar, the son of Pandit Suresh Talwalkar and Smt. Padma Talwalkar, two of the best-known practitioners of Indian classical music. Still in his early twenties, he has already established himself as a highly accomplished tabla player. Right from a very young age, Satyajit received immaculate attention and training from his parents in various aspects of Indian classical music. But his interest in percussion was nurtured by his father, ...