4/5 Tokyo - Indian Ragas on Sitar with Japanese Blues Harp

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Indian Traditional Music New Wave

Indian Ragas on Sitar with Japanese Blues Harp

Sitar & Harmonica

Dr. Chandrakant Sardeshmukh & Mr. Yasujiro Asami
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Dr. Chandrakant Sardeshmukh is one of the finest sitarists performing in the world today. His interpretations of traditional Indian music have received the highest accolades from music lovers and critics wherever he has played. Asami Yasujiro is a passionate blues harmonica player who has held audiences spellbound with his rapturous harmonies on the mouth organ. Dr. Chandrakant and Asami san will be accompanied by Kenji Sakasegawa on percussion at the Curian Hall. Powerful and warm harmonic variations are revealed--music that is ecstatic and soulful, full of happiness yet at other moments serenely gentle--in a journey of melodic variations.

Date: 5/4/2007 (Thu)
Time: 18:00
Venue: Curian (1F Small Hall) JR, Rinkai, Tokyu Oimachi Line Stn Central East Exit
Tickets: Presale 3,500
Door: 4,000
Handicapped: 3,000
Student and Child: (4-18 Yrs) 1,500

Contact: Takeda Kazuko
Mobile: 090-8961-6453
Fax: 03-3494-5206
Email : bquik@y2.dion.ne.jp
Organised by Darshanam

Cooperation: Kaze no Harmony(Yasujiro Asami's fan club)
Supported by: Embassy of India , ICCR

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This year provides the opportunity for people from India and Japan to remember and celebrate the links between their great nations. Situated within the Asian sphere - India on the Western edge and Japan on the Eastern - interaction between Japan , China and India has grown since ancient times through trade, the arts and shared philosophies.

For Japanese people, often there is a feeling of recognition and immense pleasure in listening to sitar. This may have something to do with the commonalities in music and emotional responses that have developed throughout Asia over many years. As part of the India-Japan Friendship Year 2007 this concert, through the merging of Indian sitar and Japanese blues harmonica, provides another occasion for Indian and Japanese people to nurture and expand their warm relationships.

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