533 Souls Festival, Kirpal Panesar Surdarshan Chana, Raag Jog Kafi

, 533SoulsFestival, wellbeing In this gorgeously layered presentation, multiinstrumentalist Kirpal Panesar fleshes out Raag Jog as his main movement on the dilruba followed by a miniature in Kafi. Surdarshan Chana gives a fine accompaniment on the tabla. Filmed and recorded live at Englands premier venue The Curve Theatre, Leicester this video is part of the 533 Souls Festival. Curated exclusively with UKbased musicians, 533 Souls celebrates mental wellbeing in the postpandemic world through serene, contemplative renditions of ragas and yoga. Acclaimed widely for his soulful renditions, Panesars presentations carry an intense lyricism that he has earned with years of rigorous training in Varanasi, India, under the legendary Ustad Bismillah Khan (19162006). Within the first few movements, he captures Jogs heady, trancelike hook. Balancing the tug and release of its major and minor phrases, he intertwines and binds fine structures into a dazzling citadel of the raga. Th