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01/14/2016
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Sitarist Shujaat Husain Khan joins with the haunting nasal voice of Katayoun Goudarzi for a handful of songs that ring in traditional Indian sounds and rhythms. The rest of the team, Ajay Prasanna/fl, Abhiman Kaushal/table, Ahsan Ali/sarangi, Prabhat Mukherjee/santoor and Amjad Khan/perc, provide ample support. Most of the songs open with Prasanna’s brooding flute calling out into the wind, as the sarangi and santoori join in with taps and weaving bows. Khan’s sitar plays into the deep rhythmic grooves of “Adrift” and “Not Taken” with the percussion causing rivulets of drones. The tempo stays fairly constant throughout all of the songs, which either makes you feel like you’re on a long caravan ride, or slowly delving into a trance.