Ustad Shujaat Hussain Khan....

Shujaat Husain Khan is perhaps the greatest North Indian classical musician of his generation. He belongs to the Imdad Khan gharana (tradition) of the sitar (lute) and is the seventh in the unbroken line from his family that has produced many musical masters. His style known as the gayaki ang, is imitative of the subtleties of the human voice.

Shujaat Husain Khan is the son and disciple of master sitarist Ustad Vilayat Khan. His musical pedigree continues back through his grandfather, Ustad Inayat Khan; his great-grandfather, Ustad Imdad Khan; and his great-great-grandfather, Ustad Sahebdad Khan - all leading artist of their generation. At the age of three Shujaat began practicing on a specially made small sitar, and by the time he was six, the child prodigy started giving public performances.

Ustad keyhan Kalhor

Kayhan Kalhor (Persian: كيهان كلهر‎ ) is an Iranian kamancheh player and setar player of Kurdish descent.. Kalhor consciously pins Persian classical music structures to the rich folk modes and melodies of Northern Khorasan, the cultural heart of historic Persia and a bridge to Central Asia. Kayhan Kalhor's music speaks from an ancient Persian tradition while sounding timeless and spiritually invigorating today.
Kalhor was born in Tehran (1963). At seven years of age, he began studying music under Ahmad Mohajer. By thirteen years of age, Kalhor was playing in the National Orchestra of Radio and Television of Iran. Kalhor later worked in the Shayda Ensemble of the Chavosh Cultural Center in Iran, and with the Silk Road Project Ensemble, where his music has been arranged by Stephen Prutsman and Lev Zhurbin.
While traveling throughout Iran, Kalhor studied radif in addition to the different types of music in northeastern and western Iran under various musical teachers. He later and moved to Rome and Ottawa to study Western classical music.
Kalhor has composed many works for famous Iranian vocalists such as Mohammad Reza Shajarian (ref. Masters of Persian Music) and Shahram Nazeri. has also performed with musicians such as Shujaat Husain Khan, Indian sitar player, forming a ghazal group,and holding worldwide concerts. Kalhor also represented Iran in the 2001 Chicago World Music Festival.
Because of his wide range of musical influences, Kalhor's style is sometimes considered radical in that it combines multiple elements from many different musical styles. He uses different musical instruments and crosses many cultural borders with his work.

The initiation

Hi all the music lovers .....

As this is the first post in this blog so I'd like to say some about the golds of this blog and what am I doing this for.

When I was at my hometown and I was planning to move to India one of my friends who has a music shop and sales records of Iranian Music told me.....When you come back bring me a recording of Sitar that was the first time that I heart the name of this instrument... That time I never knew one day I would be studying Indian Music but now days I'm glad of having the opportunity to learn this spiritual instrument and music which has alot in common with Iranian Music.

So what I'm trying to show as i've mentioned in the discription of the blog is to highlight and show the differences and similarities between this to music and also explain each of them individually and separately and aside this I will be introducing Iranian msuical Instrument as well as Indians. I will surly need the help of those Indians and Iranians Whom are into their music and anybody else from anywhere else which Knows about any of this two music. I hope we will get to someting through this work because as far as I know no one has seriously worked on this matter and the only practical work is Ghazzal Ensemble compriseing Ustad Keyhan Kalhor, Ustad Shujaat Hussain Khan which is duet of Kamancheh(fiddle-Spike) and Sitar accompanied by tabla. So mail me what you think is necessary to be posted in this page.