Resonance FM

‘The NAVRAS Concept’.
Produced & Presented by Diana Mavroelon with guest VIBHAKER BAXI
‘Live’ from the station, Part 3 in the series - ‘Music of lndia’

On offer: a link to the past, a cultural bridge to the present…. For over a dozen years now, Navras Records has been a specialist label in presenting ‘live’ concert recordings of the classical and traditional music of the lndian sub-continent. The concept of Nav (nine) Rasa (sentiments/emotions) and the Raga theory of lndian music are integral to these unique recordings. Given the predominantly improvisational nature of lndian musical forms and with over 300
entries, the Navras catalogue manages to embrace the entire length & breadth of musical genres.
Clearly it is not possible to do justice in just one hour to this cornucopia of sound, (aptly phrased: ‘lndia has had time to forget more melodies than the West has had time to learn!’); this evening’s show offers an over-view of the catalogue with samples of classical, traditional, light classical, devotional, instrumental, vocal, film sound-track, Bollywood and fusion music, alongside a discussion between Diana Mavroleon and Vib Baxi, one of the founders of Navras (a
man of both brilliant monetary and musical minds), on the extraordinary and diverse worlds of lndian music.