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Shruti
Live recording from the premiere performance at the Walden School, summer 2008.
Glass Drum
This is the Zakir Hussain excerpt that inspired the piece.
Zakir
Unmastered studio recording featuring Due East.
Xayaal
پھر ہوا وقت کہ ہو بال کشا موجِ شرابدے بطِ مے کو دل و دستِ شنا موجِ شرابphir huʾā vaqt kih ho bāl-kushā mauj-e sharābde bat-e mai ko dil-o-dast-e shinā mauj-e sharāb—Mirza Ghalib, (ghazal 49,1)
Khayāl (Persian: ‘thought, fancy’). A type of vocal composition in North Indian art music and the style in which such compositions are performed. The song comprises two rhyming lines of verse, in Hindi, usually on secular themes.
—Richard Widdess, from Grove Music Online