Ibaadat

This album is a beautiful combination of Sufi Qawwali/Kafi/Ghazals with a blend of Indian classical music and Jazz elements, where Udha Mazumdhar has presented the works of Sufi poets, like Khwaja Amir Khusrau, Baba Bulleh Shah, Khwaja Ghulam Farid, etc. in this style.

Udhai Mazumdar is a versatile tabla player of the Benares Gharana. He hails from a family of musicians and fine artistes in Allahabad. His father, Partho Sarathy Mazumdar, is among the first-generation of guitarists in the fields of Indian Classical music. Learnt from late Pandit Ashoutosh
Bhattacharya, and the world-renowned Sitar Maestro, Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar, Udhai has participated in many noteworthy Indian and international festivals, besides playing for and with Pandit Ravi Shankar on different occasions, like performing before the Royal Families of England and Sweden, accompanied Pt. Ravi Shankar together with Ustad Zakir Hussain in a concert to mark the Maestro’s 75th birth year etc.

Udhai also has credits on the CD’s “Echoes from India”, “Fulfillment”, “Reverberations - I”, “Musik der Welt Bern” , “ShankaRagmala”.

As a composer Udhai has created CD’s like “Geeta Govinda”, “Journey-An elaborated Raagamala”, “Kabir, Tulasi & Us”, “Singing Strings”, “Ibaadat” etc.

Udhai is Based in New Delhi and Basel, from where he travels for his concerts across the globe and teaches students privately at home, as in age old traditional teaching of Indian classical music.

Credits:

Music Composition & Tabla - Udhai Mazumdhar

Musical Arrangement - Shubhadeep Sarkar, Rupojjwal Majumder & Udhai Mazumdhar

Recording Engineers - Gaurav Chntamani, Rupojjwal Majumder & RBQ Sound Studios.

Vocals - Piu Nandi & Rupesh Pathak

Bansuri - Bhaskar Das

Sarangi - Murad Ali

Sitar - Fateh Ali

Bass & Guitar - Raja

Percussions - Joy Nandi