A shorter evening sit with bansuri, santoor and a chant - a meditation on Bhupali, one of Hindustani music's simplest and most restful ragas.
Instrument: bansuri (bamboo flute) and santoor, with a wordless chanted passage - Om Shanti Om - woven in partway through. Style: a meditation on Bhupali, an evening raga built on five notes with no half-steps.
Mood: weightless, unresolved, floating - nothing pulls anywhere.
Bhupali has five notes and no half-steps anywhere in it - remove every one and nothing leans, nothing is unfinished, which is why the melody floats rather than resolves. Its Carnatic twin is called Mohanam, "the enchanting."
Suited to evening wind-down, flute and santoor appreciation, or unhurried background listening.
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