Sitar Music
Welcome to My Sitar Music!
This site is all about the sitar, its music, and the people who play it. Read some of the articles, Listen to our Relaxing Raga of the Month, which is available on the Buy Sitar Music page, watch some of the videos, and browse our selection of QUALITY Sitar Music!
The sitar is a complex instrument, an accessible flavour of the exotic. It hails from India, and is bewildering in its variety. Yet even a first-time listener can derive much pleasure and joy from listening to its otheworldly notes. The tones and sounds of a good sitar can elevate the listener into a higher state of consciousness, and release much stress that one has accumulated in their day to day activities. It is a yoga for the ears and mind.
Though varied and complex, with different genres and subsets, this site will explain some of the finer points of sitar music and broaden your understanding of sitar music and help you get into and enjoy this genre all the more.
Its droning tones, elicit meditative moods more powerful than most other instruments, upon hearing the sitar one is immediately immersed in a world of the exotic, the orient, of places and experiences faraway. Perhaps these thoughts and meditations come from a distant land but with sitar music on cd and mp3 we can all have a little piece of the exotic on our Ipod, or cd player.
From Ragas and Ravi Shankar, to Donovan and the Rolling Stones the sitar is both versatile and consistent, a master sitarist can elicit every emotion a human can feel, and can make the heavens seem just a little closer to earth. It has a rich and old history with Indian music going back several thousands of years, and the sitar itself going back hundreds. The master sitarists of today come from schools or gharanas that go back 500-5000 years or more.
The sitar is supposed to have been invented and updated by a Indian man named Amir Khusrao, who is reported to have been so skilled on the sitar that when he played a fire raga, he would have to have his disciple in the other room playing a rain raga because of the intensity and power of his abilities he would actually call fire down from Heaven! Even today ragas have a certain time of day, and a certain season in which they can be played and when one hears a morning raga at night or a night raga in the morning, it is something like having bacon and eggs for dinner, or lasagna for breakfast.
Take tonight, close the blinds on the window, turn off the phone, burn some incense, light some candles, and put on some Ravi Shankar. I guarantee that whatever ill feelings you have had throughout the day will vanish instantly. Sitar music is powerful, it is emotional, it is a music filled with tradition and ritual, where the sitar itself is almost a living thing and the sitar and its player work in unison to create the music of the spheres.
