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Ronu Majumdar's latest album has just hit the stands
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Ranendranath Majumdar, popularly known as Ronu Majumdar, is once again all set to enthral the audience with his mesmerising strains of flute, in with his latest album Soul Raga.
He speaks with a childlike enthusiasm about the album, calling it a "pure album". It contains only his flute, with no fusion elements, and has been recorded on compact disc alone, to maintain quality, he explains.
Serene and soothing
This album is a soulful rendition of Indian classical music and with its serene and soothing quality, relaxes the mind, as it contains the inherent calmness of Indian classical music.
His brother Durga Prasad Majumdar has played the pakhawaj. Moreover, the tabla by Sudhir Pande is laudable for a balanced and thoughtful playing. Born in Varanasi, known for it's music and piety, he had his initial training under his father, Bhanu Majumdar, who himself was a senior disciple of the wizard of flute Pandit Pannalal Ghosh. He was also trained by renowned musicians like Pandit Vijay Raghav Rao and Pandit Laxman Prasad Jaipurwale, who taught him the intricacies and finer aspects of vocal renditions. All these factors contributed to the growth of the artiste in him.
Consequently, at 17 he got to perform for All India Radio. But it was The Flute Festival, Venu Naad Samaroh, in 1991, where he got to perform in front of some of the bigwigs of the wind instrument, that he got a good response and started going places. Long associated with film music — he worked with R.D. Burman in 1942: A Love Story as well as with Gulzar in Maachis. Besides, he has composed music for India's first I-Max film Mystic India. He has also composed music for the Hollywood film Primary Colours.
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