Vanraj Shastri from Ahmedabad in Gujarat is an up-and-coming player. He is unusual in that he is not from an hereditary sarangi lineage. He began with tabla and vocal music in childhood, which paved the way for a sweet vocal style on sarangi. He is also a very melodious singer. He learned sarangi technique from Dhruba Ghosh and recently has been continuing to train with Dhruba's brother Nayan Ghosh. He has wonvarious prizes and honours—for more details, see here. Vanraj, as we shall see, is well anchored in the fusion camp, and it looks like he's happy with that. Take a deep breath!
We start with rag Yaman:
Then a sweet rendition, both sung and played, of the Bhimpalasi bandish "jaa jaa re apne mandiravaa"
Now an interesting experiment "Handipan meets sarangi":
Now a Carnatic collaboration with nagaswaram and mridangam:
And then a Hundustani collaboration with santur and sitar:
The next piece is described as "#sarangi #instrumental #live #band #arrahman #roja #Chandare #hariharan #bollywood #bollywoodsongs"
Then two very flash pieces, the first entitled "#firstever #garba #sarangi Aaj Gagan thi Chandan - Garbo
The second called "Birdali Bahuchar Vali Garbo Vanraj Shastri #Garba #navratri #singer"
