Raag Jog - Pandit Ramesh Narayan| Hanuman Lala

Pandit Ramesh Narayan has the unique distinctions of being one of the few vocalists from South India who has already carved a niche for himself in Hindustani music. Blessed with a soulful and sonorous voice, which traverses masterfully over all four and a half octaves, Ramesh Narayan’s vocalizing is characterized by a harmonious blend of the classic and opulent elements projecting traditional music as an intense spiritual expression, at once chaste and yet densely coloured. This gives his music a unique and sublime emotional quality, reaching out to the very soul of the listener. Perfect diction, clarity in sur (musical notes), and gayaki (creative musical progression), command in all aspects of laya and rhythm, depth of composition and an unmistakable interplay between notes and words to evoke the desired mood and emotion, are the hallmark of Ramesh Narayan’s music. This sensitivity, added to the pure classical approach, has given his singing a lyrical quality, the quintessential of the Mewati tradition of singing.