The Monsoon Festival 16 — Monsoon

To celebrate Monsoon 2021, we leave you with a playlist of Monsoon melodies - raag Malhar ke Prakar from the Hindustani tradition. Follow us on Spotify and watch out for more monsoon inspired playlists this season!      The festival logo this year is a visual representation of the musical phrase “Ma-re-pa” that is the characteristic signature of the Malhaar group of ragas. Hence, our opening playlist, celebrates the grandeur of the Malhaar.  The Malhar family of Ragas traces its genesis back to the pentatonic Shuddha Malhar, which is not very popular in performance today, but is considered the paternal raga of...

An inter-disciplinary, multi-sensory celebration of the varied awakenings of the Indian monsoon; Red Earth’s The Monsoon Festival is now in its sixteenth edition. Next week onwards, we unveil a sequential online curation of art and design; centred around some monsoon leitmotifs we have chosen to focus on for this edit: Water Goddess / जल देवी  Clouds / मेघ  Monsoon Man Krishna / सावनाधिराज कृष्ण Lovers: in the Rain, in the Pandemic / संप्रति प्रेम  Tie and Dye Waves / लहरिया  We present a fresh, breezy jam: the weathered classical notes of a Malhaar; new phraseologies; all concocted into a heady...