Moksha
Amjad Ali Khan
75322 Real World

‘‘Since my childhood it was my dream to make the Sarod express human emotions — sing, shout, cry, whisper. I am grateful to the almighty that today my dream has come true, by the grace of God. Like flowers, fragrance, colour, water, air and fire, music has no religion. I feel connected with every religion and every soul in the world.’’ — Amjad Ali Khan

With a compelling combination of deep spirituality and exuberant energy, this collection of eight new original ragas by world-renowned sarod master Amjad Ali Khan sets a new standard in this most ancient of musical traditions. The maestro is joined by his two sons, Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash — dubbed “coming masters” by The New York Times — who will carry their legendary musical family’s legacy into a seventh generation.

Making his public debut at the age of six, the child prodigy Amjad Ali Khan was taught by his father, the illustrious Haafiz Ali Khan — a master musician in the esteemed Bangash lineage of the Senia Bangash School of Music, musicians to India’s royalty. Their famous family has nurtured the six-stringed sarod for several hundred years and it is thought that anyone playing the instrument in the world today has in some way been influenced by the ancestors of Amjad Ali Khan.

Moksha is the ultimate goal of Hindu religious life, attained when an individual becomes liberated from the birth/death cycle of life and reaches union with the divinity, and can be achieved through knowledge (gyana), devotion (bhakti), or right work (karma). Purity, self-control, honesty, and non-violent compassion are the pre-requisites for any spiritual path in Hindu dharma. Moksha is synonymous with the Buddhist “nirvana.”

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