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Ananta Vol 1 in race for Grammy Awards

Bengaluru, Oct 13 (UNI) 'Ananta Volume 1 - Maestros of India,' the official submission of The Art of Living has been accepted for consideration for nomination in the upcoming 60th Grammy awards as a 'World Music Album.
Besides one of the tracks, Guru Stotra, composed by Pt Vikku Vinayakram featuring 3 successive generations, Selvaganesh Vinayakram and Swaminathan Selvaganesh featuring Siddhant Bhatia on Indian Classical Vocals has been entered for the "Arrangement -Instrumental and Vocals" category.
According to a Art of Living release here today, Ananta was recorded in just 33 days. Producer Bhatia, travelled across the country and single handedly employed traditional forms of live performance recording without electronic music production support.
The intention was to capture the magical moments in short studio sessions. Almost all music tracks were composed and created spontaneously. Ananta, while being experimental, maintains the sanctity of Indian music in its true, classical spirit.
Ananta (sansrkit for Infinity), is the world's largest compilation of original Indian music and featured 30 legendary maestros with 300 minutes of music.
The music album features Grammy award winning musicians such as Pandit Vikku Vinayakam on the ghatam (percussion), Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt; senior Violinist and Grammy winning composer Kala Ramnath and many Grammy-nominated musicians such as U Rajesh on the Mandolin, Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar on Sarod. Legendary exponents such as Pandit Jasraj, Aruna Sairam, Ustad Shahid Pervez Khan, Ustad Rashid Khan; Oscar winning Bombay Jayshree of the Life of Pi fame and young maestros like Purbayan Chatterjee on the sitar, Kaushiki Chakraborty on Vocals, Rajhesh Vaidhya on the Veena and Rakesh
Chaurasia on the flute; Bollywood magicians like Hariharan, KS Chithra and Javed Ali; all musicians present a taste that is hard to forget.
"The album offers music for every taste. From Rumi's couplets to devotional songs in praise of the mother divine, and intense meditative chants blending with heavy percussion. The music is set to take the listener to a state of bliss and that of inexpressible joy," according to Mr Bhatia.
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