Gopal Shankar Misra - Out Of Stillness album flac

With Gopal Shankar Misra's passing in 1999 at the early age of 42, the world lost one of its vina masters. Misra, a native of Benares in North India, played the vichitra vina, a stringed instrument that is said to predate the sitar. The instrument has four main strings, five secondary strings, and 13 sympathetic strings stretched over a fretless horizontal arm. Carved peacock heads adorn the ends, and two ornately inlaid gourd resonators amplify the sound.

The late Gopal Shankar Misra, who died in 1999, was one of the masters of the voicelike vichitra veena, one of India's oldest and most expressive instruments. He was also one of the few to take its sound outside classical music, performing with Ananda Shankar and State of Bengal, exploring the possibilities of fusion. This disc, however, shows him in a more contemplative mood, performing four parts of "Darzabi Kanbra" with thundering tabla as accompaniment on part 4 and "Mishra Pilu

Gopal Shankar Misra (born 1957 in Kanpur, died August 13, 1999 in Bhopal) was an Indian musician and music teacher, who played the vichitra veena.

Out Of Stillness is a 2000 CD by Gopal Shankar Misra, whose instrument is the vichitra veena, which is played without frets. He is joined by Ramkumar Mishra on tabla and Padmaja Misra on tanpura. Gopal Shankar Misra died a month after the completion of the recording of Out Of Stillness, and was released a year later on the Real World label. On this beautiful album, which was recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studios, the veena’s deep and ancient metallic tone is heard performing traditional themes from his native Benares in Northern India, accompanied by tampura on the first two tracks and tablas on the final three tracks. The veena, which is associated with Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning, is played here by a true master and as Gopal Shankar Misra said himself, ‘the veena is just like an ocean’ in which one can disappear on this album.

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Gopal Shankar Misra Out of Stillness RealWorld. With a range of five octaves, fretless board, four main and five secondary (drone) strings overlying thirteen sympathetic strings, the vichitra veena is a complex and flexible instrument. Set horizontally atop two resonant gourds, its timbre is reminiscent of the better known sitar. The veena family of chordophones is said to predate the sitar in Indian musical history. Shortly after it was made, Dr. Gopal Shankar Misra died at a concert dedicated to his father. This album is a fine showcase for Misra's virtuosity and sensitivity as an ensemble player and leader. The raga are played with a tasteful mix of deliberation and spontaneity, with a satisfying emotional arc that characterize top-rank Indian classical performances.

Gopal Shankar Misra’s Out of Stillness is a beautifully wrought recording, and a last dance for the musician, who died a month after the recording session in London. Ironically, he died at a 1999 concert in Bhopal dedicated to his father, Dr. Lalmani Misra, a musician who had passed the torch to his son. Misra, born in 1957, was an acknowledged master of sitar and the rarely heard vichitra-vina. What Misra achieves on this album’s five tracks, subtly abetted by tabla player Ramkumar Mishra, is entrancing and exotic to ears accustomed to hearing sitar and sarod. The inflections and sonorities are different here, not to mention the radiant fine points of Misra’s musicality.

Gopal Shankar Misra was an Indian musician and music teacher, who played the vichitra veena. The family eventually attained Gharana status when the third generation – Gopal and Padmaja's son and daughter, Gandharva and Shruti – began to excel at the veena. It was much later on that the