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Sounds From The East Vol 11: Ustad Sultan Khan
Sounds From The East Vol 11: Ustad Sultan Khan
Volume 11 in our Sounds From The East series looks at transcendental sound master Ustad Sultan Khan. He has worked extensively in traditional settings and in non traditional fusion settings over a course of over a half century. One of the few people alive today who still has ancient music knowledge, take a moment to read about his legacy and check out a video of him performing that is over an hour-long!
Bio on Ustad Sultan Khan From Wikipedia:
Ustad Sultan Khan is an Indian sarangi player and singer, who plays Hindustani classical music. He is one of the members of the Indian fusion group Tabla Beat Science, with Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian honor, in 2010.
Khan gave his first performance at the All-India Conference at the age of 11, and has performed on an international scale with Ravi Shankar on George Harrison’s 1974 Dark Horse World Tour.
He has won numerous musical awards including, twice, the Sangeet Natya Academy Award, also known as the President’s Award, as well as the Gold Medalist Award of Maharashtra and the American Academy of Artists Award in 1998. In 1997 he was requested to perform at Prince Charles 50th birthday celebrations.
Khan has taught music producers such as Sukshinder Shinda and Ram Gopal Varma (who provided the music for his film, Deyyam) to play the sarangi. Belonging to the Indore Gharana, Khan performs sarangi and sings. He has many students~ but very few true Gandha Bandhan disciple’s, notables are (Anand Vyas) who plays the sitar rather than the Sarangi. What makes him notable is his use of very Heavy Gauge Strings on his Sitar therefore allowing for more sustain. This makes his sitar ~ many times ~ more accessible to Western Audiences. Ustad Ikram Khan uses the same Type of Heavy gauge “non traditional” strings for his Sarangi as does his Guru. They are not “gut” strings as employed by other sarangi players which give him a very unique and rich tone indeed. He is also the teacher of Deeyah, a Norwegian born singer, and he performed on her debut album I Alt Slags Lys in 1992.
Recently Ustad Sultan Khan performed his sarangi talent through South Indian Tamil film Yogi. He played a solo Sarangi for Yogi’s theme and also for the song “Yaarodu Yaaro” from the same album.
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