S. Balachander - Raga Malahari

This is an exploration of "Raga Malahari" by Balachander, the virtuoso of the veena. "Malahari" is a morning raga with purifying features embedded into it. As such, it's somewhat more introspective than the average evening and night ragas, and moreover is relatively rare in performance (a side effect of concerts generally taking place at night is that morning ragas either become used in abnormal context or are slightly phased out over time). Here, Balachander performs it in a Carnatic style, with the time spent on the raga roughly split evenly between the alap portion and the composition proper (the tanam). Read More