This well-matched duo weaves moving improvisations and haunting lyricism around the melancholy Lake composition
edited by Dylan Thomas himself
and philosophical reflection with the same individuality and flair that Chaudhuri demonstrates throughout a uniquely wide-ranging
It blends elements of avant-garde jazz
recording eight distinct pieces
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music books (Penguin/Random House) circuitbent This well-matched duo weaves movingAmit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician, trained in the Indian classical vocal tradition but equally fluent as a guitarist and singer in the American folk music style, who has recorded his experimental compositions extensively and performed around the world. A turning point in his life took place when, as a lonely teenager living in a high rise in Bombay, far from his familys native Calcutta, he began, contrary to all his