Somak Ghoshal in a piece in The Telegraph writes about a provocative, yet playful experimentation of Kishori in singing Yaman recently at Calcutta:
The allusive potential of Amonkar’s Yaman seemed not only to refer to other closely related ragas, but also extended to include singers from the past, whose eccentricities were appraised more fully, their originality revelled in and recognized in another time. A 78-rpm record of the mad genius from the Gwalior gharana, Ustad Rahmat Khan, made probably in the early years of the 20th century, captures a version of raga Yaman that is just a semblance of what is usually “correctly portrayed by all performers”, but far exceeds many of them in its capacity to delight and thrill.
Boy, would I have loved a link to an youtube video of that Yaman!
