Rogelio Martinez Mi Vida Eres Tu CD

That Sunday, January 20, 2002, reaching the Poonam Hotel gave us both an eerie feeling of home coming. We have stayed in this same hotel since 1988, with its familiar decorations of musical instruments and artistic photo evocations of the greats in Indian music and dance. While settling his mood for the concert in the evening, the musician due to perform after Wasifuddin sent a "messenger" asking him which raga he planned to perform. In his family, they prepare their mood to bring on themselves God's grace that He should inspire them to sing to their best, and according to the prayer, the specific raga may channel itself through the tanpura (a four stringed drone instrument) in the process of tuning it in the green room just before the performance. As his family is very orthodox, they adhere strictly to the principle of the time-theory and would normally sing the ragas at their proper time of day or night, thus he replied that it might be Malkauns or Chandrakauns. In the green room, when he gently plucked the tanpura strings for tuning, Bageshree imposed itself and he started entering the raga in full mood. One person who had been respectfully standing in the doorway of the green room could not help uttering:" Wah!' in an expression of appreciation. "It brings back that extraordinary Bageshree sung by your father and uncle in 1988. It is still ringing in my ear". Shortly after that, a messenger ...