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Raga: Puriya

by Matt Rahaim

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This is a ḳhyāl, a word that suggests dreams, visions, and active imagination. It is a form of raga music that lends itself to flexible, extended performance; no two performances, even of the same songs, are the same.

The recording begins wordlessly, with a brief, improvised alap that traces the contours of the raga at hand: Puriya. Puriya evokes the first half of deep night, when stars and planets shine brightly in the full blackness of the sky. It is well suited for intense devotion and yearning.

After the alap come three extended, largely improvised songs, each of which explores a different aspect of Puriya, with a short poetic fragment.

::: 'Sughara Banā' (सुघर बना), the "big khyāl," which describes a wedding and invokes the North Star (Dhruv-Tārā.)
::: 'Mad ke bhare nainā' (मद के भरे नैना), the "small khyāl," composed by Balwantrai Bhatt "Bhavaranga," which describes the heady liquor flowing in the eyes of the Beloved.
::: 'Na dre dre dīm' (ना द्रे द्रे दीम), a tarānā with rhythmic vocables of indeterminate (or perhaps secret) meaning.

The art of khyal consists in elaborating each composition, cycle after cyle, deepening the feeling of the raga, playing with metric constraints, building intensity, drawing out latent meanings in the poetry. As for practices of listening, the heart is the consummate auditory organ.

The melodic color of the piece is deepened by Suhail Yusuf Khan's exquisite sārangi accompaniment. The metrical cycles (each of which can be reckoned in 16 counts, but vary widely in groove and feel) are brilliantly adorned by Abhinav Sharma's tabla accompaniment. Matt Rahaim has been trained in the Gwalior lineage for the last 25 years. His guru is Laxman Krishnarao Pandit.

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released October 6, 2023

सुघर बना                                                                                ।।           विलंबित तिलवाड़ा
मद के भरे नैना                                                        ।।           मध्यलय तीनताल
ना द्रे द्रे दीम तनन देरेना                  ।।           द्रुत तीनताल

Rag Puriya:
 Vocal – Matt Rahaim
 Tabla – Abhinav Sharma
 Sarangi – Suhail Yusuf Khan

मद के भरे नैना composed by Balwant Rai Bhatt
Matt Rahaim is a shagird of Laxman Krishna Rao Pandit

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