For some time now, I have been sampling a few moments of a project that family to the proGram, Janet Schiff had been thinking on and working through. It was a long distance, international dialogue between someone she had never officially met. We spoke on the tapestry that could be. Finally the project got thing wings it deserved and was released into the world. Janet of course, plays the cello. We have had her on the program to discuss some solo work and also with the beloved nineteen thirteen. But this new collaboration was a stretch she had never fully explored before, working with a sitar master in India to create that new bridge of togetherness that formed a healing creation. In our discussion, we learn how she and Ramprapanna Bhattacharya first found each other online and formed a friendship. As music does, that original handshake turned into a ‘hey why don’t we’ and within time a raga was born with sitar being sent over the webs of the internet. The cello parts were created with distinct numbers in mind, adjustments were needed, and what was once a track to be, turned into an EP’s worth of unity, combining the earthly sound of sitar with the looping of many a cello textured to a new mosaic – one that people can easily chill put to, or find their yoga space with or just be deep in or out of the many of this oneness. ‘A Dream For Cello And Sitar’ was born on December 22nd, which is Ramprapanna’s birthday and I for one, am proud to announce it has shown up!
A Dream for Cello and Sitar · Janet Schiff Ft. Ramprapanna Bhattacharya
