Early Evening Odyssey, by Jonathan Kay and Ciro Montanari

Early Evening Odyssey

by Jonathan Kay and Ciro Montanari

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1.	Raga Purvi 34:18	buy track
2.	Raga Kedar 13:34	buy track
3.	Chatur Vyuha (Four Emanations) 19:25	buy track

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North Indian Ragas on Shrutiphone
Mirror Image - Contemporary Raga creation by Jonathan Kay

1. Raga Purvi - Auchar, Vilumbit Ektal, Drut Ektal (compositions by Guru Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Gurudev Prasun Banerjee)
2. Raga Kedar - Auchar, Gat in Jhaptal (composition by Pandit Shantanu Bhattacharyya)
3. Chatur Vyuha (Four Emanations) - Contemporary Raga creation by Jonathan Kay - Auchar, Vilumbit Tintal, Drut Kherawa

Jonathan Kay - Shrutiphone (modified tenor saxophone) & soprano saxophone
Ciro Montanari - Tabla

About the Shrutiphone:
The Shrutiphone was developed to better express the subtle shrutis and nuances of North Indian music. This is a system of customized tone-hole rings and key height adjustors made on a Buffet Crampon S-1 tenor saxophone to refine the tuning of the instrument to the 'just' or ‘pure’ tuning system the Indian Ragas are based on. I have also spend the last 10 years developing the necessary techniques to properly express all of the nuances and ornaments the North Indian Raga music style demands, including the controlled bending between pitches (meend), hard hitting ornaments (gamak), as well as others (taan, alankart, murki etc)

About the presentation:
My training (talim) has been in both the vocal (gayaki) and instrumental (tantrakari) styles and stylistically ranges form dhrupad, khyal, thumri to dhun and other folk music forms.
This recording is based on the vocal format of bora khyal for Raga Purvi, and chota khyal for Raga Kedar.

The last track, Mirror Image, is an original composition of mine that takes the western diminished scale (S r g G M P D n S’) and develops it in the form of instrumental North Indian music (vilumbit and drut gats).

credits

released December 1, 2017

Produced by Jonathan Kay www.jonathankay.ca
Recorded by Goutam Basu at Studio Vibrations, Kolkata, India on February 20th, 2017
Edited, Mixed and Mastered by Justin Gray at Gray Matter Studios, Toronto, Canada on July 18th, 2017
Album pictures, design and artwork by Andrew Kay at Snow Line Studios, Toronto. www.snowlinestudio.ca

Pranaam to our Gurus: Pandit Sankha Chatterjee, Pandit Shantanu Bhattacharyya, Sri Abir Singh Khangura, Sri Sudip Chatterjee

Our most heartfelt thanks to; Shayna Kay, Hania Luthufi, Andrew Kay, Violante Binazzi, Maite Arya Kay, David and Brenda Kay, Justin Gray, Goutam Basu, Ira, Durba & Mitra Bhattacharyya, Ajanta, Sougata & Saurav Roy Chowdhury, Mohan Singh, Durba & Anumeha Singh Khangura.
Special thanks to Kevin Rohm for your expertise while co-developing the Shrutiphone over all these years.

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Jonathan Kay Toronto, Ontario

Jonathan Kay is a jazz/improv & transcultural multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, esraj, shakuhachi), from Toronto, Canada. Inspired by the revolutionary and spiritual cries from John and Alice Coltrane, Jonathan traveled to Asia in search of non-western ways of musical knowing. He has lived in Kolkata for 10 years studying Raga music and studied Japanese shakuhachi music in Kyoto. ... more