Nikhil Banerjee - Ahiri - Hyderabad 1982

[@tanmoybanerjee3283]

Very melodious raga this is, Pandi Debiprasad Chottopadhyay also played a very heart touching Ahiri on sitar, Here pt. Nikhil Banerjee presented a mind blowing Ahiri.

[@bangaloredragon8]

Breathtakingly beautiful

[@arunangshumukherjee1803]

Pronam

[@sitarjeet]

Really outstanding, thanks so much for posting!

[@soorkiran]

Great great great.

[@vivsea65]

there would never ever be an exponent of sitar on this earth as heavenly as you

[@amitjoshi1119]

Raag Ahiri is also called as Ahira. It was also frequently played by Late Pt Bhismadev Vedi ( 1901- 1984) and Samvadini Maestro late Pt. Manohar Chimote (1929- 2012). A song of Lata Mangeshkar from film Saraswatichandra is based on raag Ahiri. Nearest raag is Parmeswari.Bhanu Joshi.

[@Latifunjulio]

আহা!

[@skdasgupta4615]

Immortal Nikhil'Sitar takes me to state of ecstasy. His music invoks innovative approach towards my own music as I also hail from the same gharana.

[@prembhavesh4126]

Loving gratitude to the Musicians and to you Brother for the divine gift....

[@milandas6540]

ohh.....my God.... !!!!!!! its just awesome................

[@diabolusX9]

soulful genius... who accompanied on tabla? any idea _/\_ n who disliked this? wow.....

[@kiyoto123]

aachhhhhhhhhhhh ,.what a artist !

[@shreyasravindra7]

Ahiri is an ancient and a rare raga and by the combination of Ahiri and Bhairav - Ahir bhairav is composed. But may be Ahiri comes bhairavi thaat, So the uploader has put it as Ahiri bhairavi together. But raag is ahiri itself.

[@Trex0891]

No, the reason could be because he plays Bhairavi separately after Ahiri.

[@shreyasravindra7]

Hmm yes. That might be the reason.

[@najilang7119]

Brilliant as Nikhil ALWAYS IS. Great raga. Ahiri is big in the Carnatic tradition. Not so much up north. Baluji Shrivatav plays a great ahiri on dilruba. Check it out.

[@JoshFeinbergmusic]

And who is the person who voted this down?!?!?!?

[@straywriter]

i thought this was the karnatic ahiri, cant find more than 1 video on karnatic ahiri

[@cbhisma]

does anyone know who the tabla player is? the stuff around the 55 min mark is quite unbelievable.

[@JoshFeinbergmusic]

Some people call this Ahir Todi but the Todi treatment of sa re ga is not present here, hence Ahiri. Pt Tejendra Majumdar has a recording of Ahiri as well which matches this treatment, which he says he learned from his Guru Baharur Khansahib.

[@sitarbaba]

You say this is Ahiri but when teh video starts you say it is Ahir Bhairav -- can you confirm?

[@dfuchs66]

Nowhere does it say Ahir Bhairav. It says Ahiri and separately lists Bhairavi as a second item.

[@JoshFeinbergmusic]

This is raga Ahiri, not Ahir Bhairav or bhairavi. Some people call this Rag

[@dfuchs66]

Doesn't say Ahir Bhairav anywhere.