Ustad Ali Akbar Khan died this weekend. Listen to the music of a man

[ConsAreLiars]

who regarded all people as equally human and all our musics as our common language. I heard this news on Democracy Now!, not mentioned on KKKorporate Media.

I had the good fortune to hear him and Ravi Shankar perform together when I was a student at Antioch. Naive and ignorant as I was then, I had a faint awareness that the fact that a Hindu from India and a Muslim from Bangladesh were traveling the world to make incredible music together with their equally talented Tabla (sp?) player meant something. But the music just blew away all the synaptic blockages in my brain. LSD without the risks. That was certainly one of the most mind-ear-eye-opening experiences in my life.

Several on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ali+akbar+khan&search=Search

There are not a lot of views (all five-starred by those few who saw them), but pick one. It might resonate. It might bust through a few neural blockages, or maybe not. But give it a listen or three.

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[elleng]

1. Thanks for this.

I heard them years ago in New York. I knew nothing!

[ConsAreLiars]

2. Exactly -- "I knew nothing!"

Those videos convey maybe 1% of the effect of being there then. Or less. Maybe these poor copies of those performances can give a few more a bit of a hint about what he and Ravi Shankar and the Tabla player were saying. And maybe then being able to realize "I learned something," even if they, like me and probably you then, could not say exactly what.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Music is the path to God

for many. Chistis are the Order of Musicians who use music to reach Unity.

Thank you for the links to the Beauty.