#darbarfestival | Purbayan Chatterjee’s accomplished sitar playing is rooted in the Senia Maihar gharana’s historic blend of Dhrupad and khayal.
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Purbayan Chatterjee’s accomplished sitar playing is rooted in the Senia Maihar gharana’s blend of Dhrupad and khayal. His style was shaped by his father Pandit Parthapratim Chatterjee, as well as taking great inspiration from the ideas of Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. As a classical artist he has performed with Ustad Zakir Hussain and other leading musicians
He is known for fusion work too, collaborating widely and reworking rock, pop, and jazz classics for the sitar, and has innovated elsewhere, inventing a smaller, more portable sitar that can be played while sitting on a chair rather than the floor. Purbayan continues to develop his classical expertise, while constantly searching for new musical horizons too.
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"The emotion that comes to my mind first is surrender. What genre you play doesn’t matter. Even a rebellious rocker while playing surrenders to a greater emotion, to a greater need to express himself, to a force." (Purbayan Chatterjee)
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Shree is a devotional sunset raga with ancient roots. The name has sacred origins (‘Shri’), representing humanity’s material relation with the world (as opposed to ‘Om’, which represents our spiritual dimensions). It is associated with Lord Shiva, the destroyer and transformer, Lakshmi, the giver of wealth and prosperity, and various Sikh saints, many of whom composed in the raga.
Sitarist-scholar Deepak Raja quotes legendary vocalist Omkarnath Thakur as considering Shree to be a raga of fear: “The prescribed time for performing this raga (around sunset) is the time when nature and humans are at peace, but the disembodied spirits (of whom Shiva is the Lord) become active, and aid the black magic of Tantriks”.
It is considered to be among the most difficult ragas to master. Hailing from Purvi thaat, it takes the swaras SrGMPdNS, with Re and Pa as the vadi-samvadi pairing (king and queen notes). The core of the raga is to be found in the movement between these two notes, with musicians employing all manner of ornamentations to explore their co-relationship. The raga is typically elaborated in madhya and taar saptak [middle and upper octaves]. A range of different sruti (microtones) are used, with many variants of Re and Dha turning up in its extensive recorded history.
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Recorded by Darbar in 2019, on location in West India:
-Purbayan Chatterjee (sitar)
Technical team credit:
Jagdeep Shah (DOP)
Sandeep Virdee (location sound)
Nirmal Singh (360 editor)
Christoph Bracher (ambisonic sound dubbing)
Narvir Singh (assistant editor)
Munshi Chohan (runner)
Shivaji Shirke (village surpanch)
Sunita Khandu Gore (catering)
Special thanks to Sherna Chatterjee & Mortimer Chatterjee
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