INDIAN MUSIC FORUM ARCHIVES: Sitar Forum: Female Sitarists

 

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Russ
Female Sitarists Sep 13, 2002 03:18 p.m.


I'm trying to put a little variety into my sitar CD collection. There doesn't appear to be many female sitarists out there that are recorded. Bought a CD by Hasu Patel and Suman Sharma. Any of you ever heard either, and what do you think of their styles? I have definite opinions already, but I don't want to say just yet. . .
Other than Anoushka Shankar, what other female sitarists have you heard that you all can recommend?
Remco
Re:Female Sitarists Sep 13, 2002 05:06 p.m.


Next week I'll go see a female sitarist called Sharmistha Sen. Don't if she has recorded, but it's a start. . . .

http://www.indiarts.com/Sharmistha/

Peace,

Remco

Lars
Re:Female Sitarists Sep 13, 2002 07:39 p.m.


Hey Remco, I hear she is good . . . try to sneak a MD recorder in with you :-)
I hear Mita Nag is excellent as well, anxiously awaiting her new CD from Raga.com but not much progress with it from what I hear so it will be awhile . . . . .

Lars

Stephen
Re:Female Sitarists Sep 14, 2002 11:24 a.m.


I'm still trying to get my hands on a recording of Annapurna Devi (remember, it is said that she is the one who absorbed 75% of what Baba taught her, her brother, Ali Akbar Khan, took in about 50%, and Ravi Shankar only made it through Ustad Khan's training retaining 25%). Although she would be labled as a practitioner of the surbahar, the above statement leeds me to believe that she would be very highly rated when speaking of women that are ICM instrumentalist. I think someone had said on this forum that the had a leed on her recordings (of which I believe there are only 2-3).
Russ
Re:Female Sitarists Sep 14, 2002 07:59 p.m.


Yup. Get a hold of Roger over there on YooHoo. He has a source, or so he says. .
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