World music & food; Travel (I've been to India, Spain, UK, Italy, Greece, Morocco, Paris, Brussels, Kuwait); Concerts; Theater; Music clubs; Swing dancing; Shakespeare authorship research; Museums; Old movies (silents & Hollywood Golden Age - yeah, that old); Developing an interest in Baseball. What's your team and why?
Music
Indian Classical; King's X; The Beatles;.. Pink Floyd Led Zeppelin Luka Bloom Asian Underground/Trance David Bowie Queen Da Blooz: Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters; The Velvet Underground Nico Classic Big Bands and Singers from the 30s & 40s; Early 80s Garage; Smithereens; Fuzztones; all 60s psychedelic; Rockabilly (Carl Perkins, Stray Cats, Robert Gordon, Link Wray); Nice old Lounge/Cocktail music: George Shearing,Henry Mancini.
Movies
Les Enfants du Paradis;
Shakespeare and Costume Dramas;
Merchant & Ivory films
Goodfellas (there's a switch from Shakespeare!);
Dracula (1931 Bela Lugosi Version);
Horror films from Universal & Hammer;
A Mid-Winter's tale;
Charlie Chaplin;
Laurel & Hardy;
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari;
Nosferatu (1921 version);
Television
I really do not like plopping down in front of the TV for very long, but if I do, I watch:
Monty Python;
PBS;
History Channel;
Discovery Channel;
Good Eats (Food Network);
Colbert Repor;
Jon Stewart;
Books
The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwll Concerning the spiritual in art by Wassily Kandinsky
The Late Mr. Shakespeare by Robert Nye (Novel);
Pollyanna;
Elizabethan literature (including plays);
History;
Biographies;
Autobiographies.
About me: Sitar: 1988 to present
Guruji: Pandit Krishna Mohan Bhatt - disciple of Ravi Shankar
Shehnai: 2000 to present
Ustadji: Ustad Fateh Ali Khan of Benares - he is the grand-nephew of the late Bismillah Khansaheb
Recordings:
2009 - Soundtrack for "Arranged" - Independent film
2008 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Dub Band - Easy Star Records all reggae version of the classic LP! Due Spring 2009
2007 - PBS "Nova" series - Saved by the Sun" 2007 - Raag Sphidey" - Soundtrack for Gallery exhibit by Tim Dubisky. See calendar (9/6/07) for details.
2006 - "Tipping Point" by The Cringe (see friends below) on Sony Records. (sitar on 2 tracks)
2006 - Soundtrack for Japanese Anime short film.
2005 - "Live at Pompanuk" 2 CD set of Hindustani Classical & Dhuns
2000 - "Raag Jog" Classical late night Raaga
I have performed in: California; Florida; Texas; Rhode Island; New York; Ohio; Kentucky; Connecticut; Massachusetts & Pennsylvania.
I have the honor and pleasure of performing with:
Glen Burtnik (Styx & "Beatlemania")
Ken Butler (creator of home made instruments)..
Steve Holley (drummer for Wings - ya know, Paul McCartney's other band...?)
Nydia Mata (percussionist for Laura Nyro's band)
Larry Russell (Billy Joel's bassist)
Shawn Pelton (drummer for Sat. Night Live for 11 years)
Joe Pecorino (original "John" in Broadway production of Beatlemania")
John Cameron Mitchell (Author & star of "Hedwig & The Angry Inch"
Dan Weiss (great tabla player and jazz drumming hotshot)
John Merjave (guitarist for "Liverpool" and countless other bands)
Dear Peacefullone, Hello/Namaskar, Thank you so much for your add me in your friends list in myspace. With best wishes ,and much regards.Happy to see your info. Keep in touch. Pt Hindraj Divekar.
Home: Pt Hindraj Divekar. 82,Budhwar peth, Ramsukh Tulsi build, 3rd Floor,Flat no 301-302. Ganapati chowk, Tulsibag Ganapati, Pune 411002.M.S.India. www.hindrajdivekar.org for audio and video recording. Rudra Veena Khayal style & Dhrupad style & Sitar Sadhak of Pune India. Tel:+91-20-24458026. M: +91-0-9371556801. M:+91-0-9923551095. Email: info@hindrajdivekar.org hindraj_divekar@hotmail.com hindraj.divekar@gmail.com pthindraj_rveena@yahoo.com
Thanks for the "add". Your website is lovely with the deep blue space feeling.
The video of the orchestra is amazing ... but wanted to hear the tabla or other instruments after seeing it ... any well recorded audio available of that presentation perhaps to put up in the audio section?
I hope one day my music will have a full live orchestra like that ... getting there :-)
Have been thinking of you a lot of late as have been listening to a lot of material specifically Oud from the mid-east (just ordered one). Let's def'ly find a window to do another shared bill or duo effort in 2008. Sorry my communication is always catch as catch can.
BBQ -- Hey, good to have you as a MySpace friend!! Glad to hear you caught one of our concerts. Hopefully, you'll be able to get to another one soon, if so, we'll meet up and say hi!
Roger, Thanks for the comment. I hope to knock 'em dead in LA! I did hear good things about the NJ Pepper show. Bet you were fabulous! I will be posting a blog about my time in LA... hopefully on a regular basis, depending on if I am given the time to do so! Wish me luck!
yes it's too bad -- especially since i have the absolute best cover of getting better all the time -- but it doesn't sound like the beatles by a long shot
tell dave he should get me to sing it. or fixing a hole.
Namaskaar, my peaceful friend! A much-belated "thanks for the add", and sincere thanks for your warm and friendly comment some months past. I am glad to have made your acquaintance! I couldn't 'HELP!' but notice that you are a major Beatles fan (as I am also), with a particular affinity for a good tribute-act. Here in Winnipeg we have a group called Free Ride, and while their 'scouse' is a little too Irish (and friendly), their sound --"George's" guitar especially-- just hits it...one almost gets "flashes". Re. your pics: what kind of violin-bass have you got? My own (a Höfner) comes from the late '80s; collectors say the hardware is "all wrong"...shows what they know! That's it a-thumpin' on all my tracks. I'll bet that Khansahib-ji album kicks a**, too. Let me say thanks again for adding my alter-ego Poor Andy the Skiffle-tramp. I began a project a couple of years ago that sought the root or essence of the Beatles' sound; those factors which set it apart from the past, and which it imparted to all popular music following. At first I wanted to record an album of covers & originals in a 'Beatles' style, but --through exhaustive archival analysis; Little Richard, Gene Vincent, Ravi Shankar, the Coasters, &c.-- I came at last to Lonnie Donegan. A favorite since my Art School days, I had nevertheless failed to grasp the significance of Skiffle music in the development of not only the Beatles' sound, but (by extension) of all the so-called 'Rock' music which followed... thus, the 'Beatles' project became the U.K. Skiffle project. (The 'Chaplinesque' is just 'cause I love the silent movies --the irony and subtlety; Charlie's
I still got my calender open after the first week in August. You can run but you cannot hide! Er . . you can walk as well . . .maybe even shuffle a little??
