Biography

Drawing upon traditional Indian ragas, while maintaining their pristine purity and simplicity, bansuri virtuoso Teredesai has masterfully and lovingly ventured down the Path of the Divine. An exquisite recording, suitable for meditation, yoga or restful repose.
Rajendra Teredesai beautifully blends and integrates the most significant aesthetic and technical aspects of the gayaki and gatkaari ang of Indian classical instrumental music, combining it with a rich, sonorously soothing tone and immaculate blowing technique, displaying an amazing virtuosity, vivid with creative imagination in terms of elaboration and improvisational technique and design, in his woodwind playing. The raga is elaborated and improvised with deeply meditative alaaps, intricate jod and jhala, sweeping movements of meend, spontaneous and complex layakari ideation and badhat that depict sheer architectural built-up phraseology of playing. It develops further with a keen sense of anticipation on rapid movements after the creation of a melodic edifice out of the raga notes, carefully carved an etched from the breath of his celestial flute. The expansive alaaps, dynamic phraseology and finely crafted taan patterns, coupled with intense, animated and cathartic percussion based melodic interplays are the breathing elements of his music and characterise it with the spirit, hues and design of a vitalistic form. The style of his flute playing encompasses the whole range of genres covering the dhrupad, khayal, thumri and natya sangeet, that are fluidly integrated and assimilated into a style that is at once traditional and innovatively progressive in approach and presentation. Quintessentially, his music is like a bird in flight, swooping, hovering and maneuvering deftly on a heady and exotic combination of notes and time balance, meandering in search of newer dimensions of melodic and spiritual fulfillment in the seemingly unfathomable skies of Indian classical music.