Suron Ki Sayen

Avra Banerjee is an Indian composer and sarod player based in Australia and he’s got some impressive instrumentalist and vocalist guests here, notably the wonderful ghazal singer Hariharan. Suron Ki Sayen means The Shadow of Melodies and you get plenty of melodies here in a soft, easy-listening style from different vocalists plus sarod, sarangi, saxophone, bansuri, harmonium and more. The problem is that the dominant instrument is an over-florid piano played by Tamal Kanti Halder, although he’s unnamed in the material I was sent. I find the piano pretty hard to take in Indian music, although Banerjee himself describes this as ‘world music’, but it’s of a noxiously saccharine sort.