The Rain (album)

The Rain is a live album by the Persian-Indian hybrid ensemble Ghazal, comprising kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor^[1] vocalist and sitar player Shujaat Husain Khan,^[2] and tabla player Sandeep Das, recorded at a live concert at Radio Studio DRS in Bern on May 28, 2001 and released on ECM in August 2003.^[3] The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music Album in 2004.^[4]

Track listing[edit]

Kjell Keller – recording producer
Andy Mettler – recording engineer
Manfred Eicher – producer
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Kayhan Kalhor, Manfred Eicher – editing, remix, and mastering
- Edited, remixed, and mastered at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, Norway
Sascha Kleis – design
Gérald Minkoff, Cylla von Tiedemann, Ira Landgarten – photography

^ Billboard Sep 13, 2003 -Vol. 115, No. 37 Page 34 "GHAZAL The Rain PRODUCERS: Kjell Keller, Manfred Eicher ECM 1840 "and Iranian Kayhan Kalhor, a virtuoso of the kamancheh (a high-toned, spike-grounded fiddle) — has turned Western heads with a clutch of albums for Shanachie and several tours of the U.S. and Europe"
^ Jazz Times - Volume 37 p.72 2007 "Having worked with sitar player Shujaat Husain Khan in the Persian-Indian hybrid ensemble Ghazal (documented by ECM on 200 Is The Rain), Kalhor has now begun an exploration of Turkish musical traditions. The Wind places Kalhor in a ...
^ Journal of the Indian Musicological Society Volume 38 2007 p.21 "Shujaat Khan and Kayhan Kalhor, The Rain: Ghazal, ECM Records, 2003."
^ Peter Lavezzoli The Dawn of Indian Music in the West 2006 p.381 0826418155 "Ghazal released their debut album in 1997 entitled Lost Songs of the Silk Road, containing four tracks that limelight ... But the ideal introduction to Ghazal is their Grammy-nominated live recording from 2001, The Rain, with Sandeep Das on ..."