Indian Classical Music

Of course, this album gives no complete answer to that question. Instead, it concentrates on a selection of India’s greatest artists in “serious” music – music from the concert hall. A number of India’s most prominent musicians of the 20th century and today perform here, recorded under comfortable conditions in their own homes. And it offers samples of the forms, traditions and instruments that one encounters in Indian music life today.

Meet these cultural ambassadors, who represent a music culture with a heritage that goes back several thousand years, and listen to the music. Like a landscape with accents of rhythm, the melody stands out in bold relief against the ceaseless horizontal line of the drone. For many, this is perhaps a new musical world, an adventure, a new richness. Meet India – an old tradition in a new world.

The vinyl record Indisk Konstmusik was made in connection with the India Festival ‘87; a comprehensive presentation of Indian culture in Sweden in 1987. This production was made possible by the collaboration of Caprice Records, the Swedish Institute, the Swedish Council for Cultural Affairs, the Swedish International Development Authority and The Festival of India committee.
Special thanks are also due to the artists who participated in this recording, for generously putting themselves and their homes at our disposal, as well as to Air India for valuable help.