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Darshan means 'vision' in Sanskrit: a mystical vision of the divine, or seeing one another in the world. Darshan is a five-movement Partita based on a different Hindustani raag, and this opening movement, set in the sweet, melodious raag Bihag, is associated with the deepest, darkest night.
This movement is a dream, a beginning in wisps of unreal imagination - the violin playing in stratospheric colors. Slowly, the raga is introduced as the violin descends into the realm of the real, eventually reaching the "bandish" (or "tune"), played on the lowest string with a drone - commonly played by the tanpura instrument in Hindustani tradition.
That drone turns into a pulsating, throbbing triplet, accompanying the bandish throughout the rest of the movement, reaching ecstasy, before climbing back to the heavens.

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from Darshan, released September 3, 2021
Recorded by Louis Ng at All Saints Church, Pasadena

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Vijay Gupta Los Angeles, California

Vijay Gupta is a violinist, speaker and citizen-artist dedicated to creating spaces of wholeness through music. He is the founder of Street Symphony, a community of musicians dedicated to engaging people in reentry and recovery living in LA's Skid Row. Vijay Gupta is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. ... more

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