Subhankar Chatterjee, voice
Daniel Schell, tiptar
Sandip Banerjee, tabla

The trio creates a 'Chamber Oratorio', a new music theater project on the life of Alexandra David-Néel(1868-1969) and her writings on Milarepa and Dattatreya's Avadhuta.

Alexandra, the famous first woman to reach Lhassa in 1924 was also a prominent writer. She analysed the writings of Yogi Poet Milarepa of Tibet and Vedanta famous text by Dattatreya.

The music is classical music from India, the lyrics are inspired by two
classical texts worked out by Alexandra.

The first is from Milarepa (10th – 12th century)  the yogi Buddhist poet
from Tibet, and his famous poem ‘The Hundred Thousand Songs.

The second is the Vedanta text Avadhuta Gita, attributed to the
legendary writer Dattatreya. A very old Sanskrit text appearing in the
10th century.

On those texts the trio creates classical music and more.

Subhankar Chatterjee is a great vocal musician with a culture ranging
from Vedic to Khayal songs, passing by Dhrupad.   He has a strong
baritone educated voice an great rhythmic agility.

Daniel Schell, plays the tiptar (tapping guitar) and has made a
specialty of accompanying classical Indian music.

Sandip Banerjee is an experimented tabla player  with outstanding
rhythmic force. He has played through the world, teaching and performing
in classical style and more

All three players are long time teacher in the Sangit Academy Brussels.

https://youtu.be/s2HIserMDjo?si=zz9BIyfh0e_gzEYq

The trio performing raag Brindabani Sarang.

Samples and videos

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