Lyra Raga 1: Puriya Kalyan (Lyra 8 synth + Strymon Big Sky + CBA Warped Vinyl)

Published on May 23, 2018 Modular Landing

"Lyra creator Vlad Kreimer says that the Lyra synthesizer was partially inspired by Indian ragas, a beautiful set of musical forms and moods. Reading that, I thought why not explore the Lyra as an instrument through raga? I know little about ragas (although I love listening to them) so this seemed like a good way of learning about ragas also. This is the first, inspired by the Indian raga "puriya kalyan." The Lyra is going into a Warped Vinyl (which is providing the very slow swells) and a Big Sky reverb unit set to "clouds."

A quick search revealed nothing on YouTube or Google involving both the Lyra synthesizer and Indian ragas, amazingly! So I suppose these are the first Lyra raga videos.

This track was inspired by the following raga performance: [below]

If you want to have fun, play that and this together at the same time or overlapping!"

Glory of Dusk - Raga Puriya Kalyan

Published on Oct 22, 2010 Bansuriflute

"Raga Puriya Kalyan is a melody that is traditionally played at the dusk (known as "sandhi-prakash"). It is a combination of two Ragas - Puriya and Yaman. Its mood is somber, meditative, contemplative, devotional and like many Ragas played at dusk, it makes one contemplate about life.

Here is a blog link explaining the philosophy behind Indian Ragas performed at dusk - http://www.bansuriflute.com/2012/02/0... [404 at the time of this post]

This is a recording of a live concert performed at Los Altos Public Library. On Tabla is Shri Ravi Gutala and on Bansuri, I was accompanied by my student, Akshay Naresh."