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Live in concert at Café Resonance, Montreal

Shawn Mativetsky, tabla
Kaitlyn Raitz, cello lehra

Excerpt from a one-hour solo in Teentaal (16 beat time cycle). The Benarsi Theka mirrors the alap-jor-jhala's slow-medium-fast form that an instrumentalist or dhrupad vocalist might perform at the outset of a raga performance.