Pravin Godkhindi | Raag Yaman | Bansuri at Ravenna Festival | Music of India

#darbarfestival #Yaman #Bansuri Bansuri exponent Pravin Godkhindi showcases his unique style, exploring the versatile and ambiguous moods of Raag Yaman with Subhankar Banerjee on tabla live in Italy. Learn more about the music: Pravin Godkhindi is a versatile flautist, performing Hindustani music on the bansuri. His instrument is essentially just a tube of bamboo with holes bored through it, with no moving parts. The sound is thicker, breathier, and more versatile than the Western flute, blending long sustained tones with percussive slaps and swooping microtonal inflections. Pravin studied under his father Venkatesh Godkhindi, an exponent of the Kirana gharana, as well as Carnatic mridangist Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma. He incorporates Carnatic rhythm into his playing, and in 2015 became the first to perform Indian classical music on the 8-foot-long contrabass flute. Yaman is one of North India’s most famous ragas. Often the first taught to students, it brings a distinctly balanced set o