Audio By Carbonatix
Keep Miami New Times Free
We’re aiming to raise $7,500 by April 26. Your support ensures New Times can continue watching out for you and our community. No paywall. Always accessible. Daily online and weekly in print.
No one so dominates association with a musical instrument as Ravi Shankar does with the sitar. But Ravi’s daughter Anoushka Shankar has made a profound effort to overcome the giant-shoes, long-shadow burden of being the master’s daughter. The best sitar music (call it raga roll) is like a powerful drug that manifests meditation. This is where Anoushka pulls off a neat trick — at least on her recent Grammy-nominated album Rise — by using modern sounds to set up the listener, she induces a sort of nodding state. Then she enters with her engaging, engrossing string work and leaves the audience with a rush, and a lasting sonic high. More dreamy than her father’s relatively aggressive approach, Anoushka’s pieces draw you in and hold you with a cosmic sound that’s as dizzying as it is dazzling. She sings too; critics have favorably compared her voice to that of her half-sister Norah Jones. She is the first female and youngest person to receive a House of Commons Shield and the first female to play India’s revered Ramakrishna Centre. Drop in and turn on at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts at 8:00 p.m. For more info on Anoushka visit www.anoushkashankar.com.
Sat., March 24, 8 p.m.
