Utsav Lal performs Raga Bhairav Alap-Jod-Jhala on the Fluid Piano

Utsav Lal performs Raga Bhairav Alap-Jod-Jhala on the Fluid Piano (2010).
NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT 2016 - The first ever Fluid Piano record release:
The Fluid Piano album by Utsav Lal, raga pianist.
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Video 1 - Raga Todi:
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Video 2 - Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram:
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Video 3 - Raga Bageshri
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Video 4 - Panihari (Water Lady):
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For Track 4: Panihari (Water Lady) Utsav Lal is joined by the inventor of the Fluid Piano Geoff Smith on prototype chromatic dulcimer.
Album duration: 76 mins
4 tracks: (1) Raga Todi (2) Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram (3) Raga Bageshri (4) Panihari (Water Lady).
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[@injunsun]

I have never before heard a Western instrument that was able to capture quarter tones. Most Westerners at first dislike quarter tones, considering them at first a perceptual dissonance, or something slightly off-key, but to those with perfect pitch, this simply expands the range of all music immensely. And as if playing the piano itself was not complicated enough, to add in adjusting for quarter tones while playing it is what we call a "phenomenon," or a "phenom" (fee-nahm). Brilliant.

[@davidannohjr.4891]

Scriabin would love this piano.

[@countingcoup]

Wow, this crazy piano and Utsav's ability to play raga on it is ethereal on the highest level ~ beautiful...

[@UtsavLal-Ragapianist]

@countingcoup thanks so much.

[@julius12345ceaser]

Love how the Jhalla ended with Bhairav falling back to rest. It’s like you invoke a deity and he showed you all colours , all corners and it’s majesticity, finally resting

[@UtsavLal-Ragapianist]

Thank you for listening

[@DallasBolin]

My mind has been blown. I just... I can't even begin to describe the places I was taken as these waves of sound washed over me. This is absolutely brilliant. I just want to get my hands on one of these as soon as possible. I fear I'll never leave it.

[@koulickchakraborty8498]

I'm out of words, sir.

[@UtsavLal-Ragapianist]

@Koulick Chakraborty Thanks for listening.

[@jakepapadopoulos8654]

Never heard anything like this in my life. This is wild.

[@rhonndaneumann8704]

Harmonium/Melodeon/Piano like. Really amazing mix of sounds. Thank you.

[@MolnarPohdap]

Thanks, this is really inspiring! I'm a keyboardist who loves Hindustani music and just intonation, and also enjoys the santoor, and this instrument combines all that into one! Lovely, soulful playing, too -- many thanks!

[@maocharlisme]

I've only just learned about the fluid piano and I absolutely loved this performance! I was so moved by it and it took me to other realms... thank you so much, you have made me fall in love with a newly discovered instrument

[@UtsavLal-Ragapianist]

@Charlye’Charleston thanks so much

[@pauldiffenderfer]

Awesome!! The Hindustani music tradition is divine...thank you U t s a v for taking it into new territory...surely this will invite many more outsiders to listen to the tradition! thanks!

[@UtsavLal-Ragapianist]

@paul diffenderfer thank you so much for listening

[@MegaPetrof]

Mesmerisingly beautiful!

[@LinusOva]

That's the coolest sounding piano I've ever heard

[@abstractica]

Exquisite playing. Love this.

[@NnietBrovdiGV]

Awesome! +++

[@shmupshmuppewpew5260]

This really made my morning. Thank you, Mr. Lal!

[@UtsavLal-Ragapianist]

@ShmupShmupPewPew Thank you very much

[@kieranporey]

OK first when i got to know about fluid piano, saw some videos , i thought nah...this isnt sounding like it could realy be some kind of advantage to Eastern music, but after watching Utsav Lala playin The Bhairavi .....it blew away my mind...this is a revolution in the field of micro tonal music.....though eastern instruments can do it...but a piano ..is just unbelievable..And @Sitar364 , u shud get an ear checkup....

[@UtsavLal-Ragapianist]

@Kieran Porey. The Fluid Piano really is amazing and opens up so many more opportunities to express Indian ragas. Thanks for listening and do check out the recordings for The Fluid Piano Album released in 2016

[@SatyaPrakash-qy4oy]

Beautiful❤

[@ArjunKhokharOfficial]

I am in love with this! Divine! Utsav you are really good brother. God bless!!

[@UtsavLal-Ragapianist]

@Arjun Khokhar Official. Thanks ! Really appreciate your listening. The Fluid Piano is an amazing instrument and I really enjoyed playing on it and subsequently also recording the debut album , released in 2016. You can hear the album on Spotify, Apple Music , KZbin.

[@StevenVrancken]

Cool! Thanks for sharing. Love to play that piano!!!

[@WolfintheWheat]

Oh man, that was beautiful. The middle-eastern music style is so unique. *Man tear* This is so perfect...

[@miasarno2809]

AMAZING!

[@EkPitaEkasKeHumBarik]

@ Ragapianist: Thanks for your reply. Indian Classical Music has the greatest positive effect on the mind and body. I have also learned some part of it. I love Raga Darbari and Malhaar. Hope to listen some of you performances on the same. Regards, Prabhjot

[@TheLedjoplin]

This piano try to make a sitar sounds like, that's why active tuning need it. Suite very well in this piece of remarkable notes

[@vp4744]

Nice performance, would be interesting to see how well this can harmonize with other instruments in an ensemble piece.

[@BarnacleButtock]

We need to combine this concept/design with the keyboard and bending of the clavichord. That way you wouldn't have to take your hand off the keys to bend or use vibrato.

[@RussMootsey]

check out the seaboard rise

[@BarnacleButtock]

Russ Mootsey the seaboard does not have traditional depress-able keys. Which doesn't fit the playing style of the clavichord

[@dipendumukherjee4365]

Appreciate this

[@matthewdavis8774]

Kind of like the horizontal vibrato (or whatever its called) on the keyboard of the Martenot and the Ondioline?

[@Jas-tm6ge]

You can adjust all the 88 strings to much of your curiosity~! Great way to show some unique features! :D

[@askmebiotech8076]

JM Cantong this piano doesn't have 88 keys, see carefully..it starts with F

[@closedbeta8556]

impressive sound

[@BudCharlesUnderVlogs]

Wow! This is the best invention since the internet!

[@SlowlyYouRot]

Whoa! Beautiful! All those notes he plays and rings out at 8:55 sound so nice. I wish I knew what chords they were and all. Reminds me of some of my favorite dark ambient music.

[@shaileshdeshpande9266]

The secret is not the chords but the temperament used while tuning the fluid piano.

[@SlowlyYouRot]

@@shaileshdeshpande9266 aah, I see. Thanks!

[@jon.lervold]

Beautiful performance

[@tonecraftermusickeithburch8871]

Herne Webber, any non-fixed pitch Western instrument can play micro-tones, not merely quarters. Very interesting invention, the fluid piano.

[@ondrakabrna]

Awesome!! Love it!! Thank you very much!!!

[@trexquisite6823]

I really enjoyed your performance! Well done.

[@UtsavLal-Ragapianist]

@Trex Quisite. Appreciate that, thanks so much

[@Klektic]

yes chef

[@kaziasantos5460]

Encantador.

[@anand6479]

Great playing, I have no idea what a fluid piano is and how it differs from the regular grand piano, but it sure as hell sounds great. Nice redention of Bhairav as well. Excellent job overall.

[@williamebertz8828]

He's able to change the tuning while playing, whereas the piano has a fixed tuning. You'll notice the effect when he moves the levers on top of the instrument.

[@noradosmith]

Awesome.

[@OdedFriedGaon]

oh Sweeeet!!!!!!! what playing, and... what an instrument! WOAH!

[@h.denisovan8900]

G E N I A L --- B R I L L I A N T I D É E ! ! !!

[@deepakgola1]

you are living my dream!!so envious of you!

[@Lot2learn]

Very cool indeed!

[@gamelover420]

amazing! legend hay ap yar

[@lazykidarr]

superb sound..very unique! excellent piece!! thanks for posting this!

[@rocklikebeatle9060]

Top notch

[@ignatiusjk]

Fascinating.I would like to hear him play a Western song on this piano.Candle in the wind,Your song etc.

[@gregnormal]

Hello!!! How are you doing today, please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you’re a fan ? Have a great day… Stay Safe!

[@ignatiusjk]

@@gregnormal Just a fan I guess.

[@gregnormal]

@@ignatiusjk Hey! That’s very good to know, I just can’t stop myself from listening to this song anytime am alone! If I may ask which of all their songs is your favourite? Have a great day… Stay Safe

[@KMNKeyboardVault]

I want one

[@java409]

Awesome performance!

[@chuecosam]

VUELA ("it flies", like "it blows my mind") greetings from Argentina

[@hainish2381]

That is amazing.

[@musicalwayshere4]

This is sooo sickk, sounds amazing

[@sandeeps384]

beautiful

[@jblinn5255]

thats the unbelievable bomb

[@Junmonsterr]

I loved it!

[@PaulRoseGuitar]

Wonderful

[@norwayguy1976]

I love it!

[@JadeMoonMusicDepartmentJMPAA]

BRAVO!

[@tsbimbra]

enjoyed listning

[@Textile_Dude]

VERY cool!

[@tejas2620]

@pauldiffenderfer absolutely agree,..

[@mabel8179]

Interesting sound.

[@diamondfb]

awesome!

[@rzeka]

This is crazy!

[@Identitees]

excelent

[@99zxk]

"I have never before heard a Western instrument that was able to capture quarter tones." Violins, violas, cellos and basses can. Ligeti and others wrote some string quartets that use semitones.

[@99zxk]

It's interesting that I quoted them saying quarter tones but didn't catch my semitone mistake.

[@jcfbell3001]

what about putting some servo motors on the sliders...

[@trinetram707]

Why does this piano sound like santoor ?

[@JohnBorstlap]

Interestingly, the TIMBRE sounds like a plucked instrument. The hammers are not the regular piano hammers.

[@DeadRavers]

Nice! But how the hell did you get the sliders to work so effortlessly? I cant imagine the string tension being anywhere near what a conventional piano would be. Does it still play heavy or feel more like a cembalo?

[@LYSHEmusic]

WOW! I think about something like this! What material of this tune sliders?)

[@rickrobbins4031]

interesting

[@littlewierdo]

Very similar to the soundtrack from the video game "The Last of Us". Very bizarre, somewhat haunting.

[@lisandromassa4371]

C-Db-E-F-G-Ab-B: how it´s the name of this scale?

[@mattsdpell5029]

It seems a Phrygian dominant, with a major 7th

[@lisandromassa4371]

MattSD Pell Hi my friend, dominant with major seventh is´t not dominant. Are you sure?

[@lisandromassa4371]

Lisandro Massa It´s an Indian scale.

[@PiEndsWith0]

The only scale I can make out of this is the Byzantine Major Gypsy scale. Though for a raga it seems like a long shot. The closest I can get with india is the Avaha Raba scale. But that also has the Bb problem.

[@mattmoore1456]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_harmonic_scale

[@avstin4508]

Are there any black metal bands that use this?

[@calebbliss8626]

there should be

[@icedragonlm]

I know theres a microtonal death metal band. lol

[@avstin4508]

There are actually a couple of those, and a microtonal nu metal band, but it'd be really nice to hear symphonic black metal with one of these.

[@calebbliss8626]

+Austin Ennis What is the name of that Nu Metal band? I know Ra used the Hijaz scale. Was it them?

[@avstin4508]

+Caleb Bliss M.A.N.

[@RoshanD.Rai_]

Tigran Hamasayan on this...

[@yourdeadmother]

this is not middle eastern, this is an indian scale

[@vvkarpur]

What type of piano is this ? Sounds like a string instrument.

[@3831M]

It's a "fluid piano", there's a few video's about it on youtube. It's a fairly recent invention to use vibrato on a piano, as well as to allow for using microtones, which are more common in eastern music.

[@sirdonalddust4088]

A piano is a string Instrument.

[@metternich7865]

Sir Donald Dust The piano is a percussion instrument.

[@sirdonalddust4088]

Yes, you are technically correct. It is a percussion instrument because the strings are struck. Returning to your very first comment, I do agree, that this piano now sounds more like a string instrument. Have a great day.

[@FirstInstruMentalist]

Sir Donald Dust No. Its a string. The string is making the sound. you can strike a violin the same way, but it is not a percussion because of it.

[@The_Butler_Did_It]

Interesting instrument... you could do with at least 3 hands to play this though

[@petermachado2022]

the fluidity of this piano must make ot a snap to tune, slightly out of tune - just slide a bit

[@venusasaboy]

What's dumb about the whole-tone scale? Have you never heard Debussy?

[@yourdeadmother]

no it isnt mate, its part of south asia

[@dj2bklyn]

so much for the piano tuner lol

[@TheXerhos]

*quatertones you mean, my dear. Only whole-tone scale based dumb improvisation could possibly not use semitones.

[@williamchen33]

AWESOME!

[@DaGavinX]

Amazing.