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Release Date: 23-07-2004
Label: Karuna / Triloka
Catalog Number: TRICD82039
Barcode: 801298203926
Musical Style: World
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hari Om | 6 | Love Of Ages |
| 2 | Raghuvar Tumko Meri Laaj | 7 | Jai Ram |
| 3 | Devi Stuti | 8 | Hey Govinda |
| 4 | Ganesh | 9 | Allah Tero Nam |
| 5 | Shri Ramchandra | 10 | Hari Krishna |
Description:
Sheetal's debut CD entitled Love of Ages is the result of her diverse influences, a recording that definitively captures and coalesces the range of musical inspiration that is Sheetal. This is an artist who stands astride two worlds apart to create a new tradition. Love of Ages finds Sheetal's perseverance, her dream, reach full fruition highlighted by her command of one of the most pure and transporting voices to be heard in a very long time. Sheetal succeeds in combining these very distinctive Raga scales, the beautifully melodic and linear lines of North Indian classical music, with the chord changes and harmonic depth of western music to create an exceptional blend of musical colors that both inhabit a very ancient tradition and move beyond it.
Biography:
Nurtured in a musical environment - both of Sheetal's parents are musicians and singers as well as deep reservoirs of knowledge regarding the devotional music of Gujarat - Sheetal began studying music at the age of 5 with a focus on western classical violin and Indian classical voice. She continued her studies throughout high school while the ever-present sounds of her Eastern roots filled the rooms of her childhood forming a constant aural connection to her ancestral home. It was upon entering the University of Michigan School of Music and venturing forth from the parochial setting of her Eastern upbringing that Sheetal enveloped herself in the study and performance of jazz and classical western music and became familiarized with western harmony.
