Music Is A Vehicle To Travel To Other Worlds: An Introduction To Dhrupad | Ramakant Gundecha | HITW Archives

About this episode

This episode features an interview with Indian music guru Ramakant Gundecha discussing the Dhrupad tradition.

Gain access to the full podcast archives, new ad-free episodes and more by becoming a member of the HITW Patreon community: http://patreon.com/howlinthewilderness This month, May 2026 marks the 8 year anniversary of the podcast. To celebrate this occasion, I thought it would be fun to reissue some early episodes from back when the podcast was called Medicine Path. Over the next few months I’ll be re-releasing some of those archival episodes that have previously only been available to paid Patreon members. This is my first episode featuring an interview with Ramakant Gundecha, an Indian music guru in the Dhrupad tradition from May 2018. I’ve recorded a short introduction before the original unedited episode that addresses the accusations against the Gundecha brothers after Ramakant’s death in 2019. References: Gundecha Brothers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundecha_Brothers Usted Zia Fariduddin Dagar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zia_Fariduddin_Dagar Information on Sadharani Giti: https://sreenivasaraos.com/2015/06/21/music-of-india-a-brief-outline-part-twenty-one-2/ ___________________________ 🔥 SUPPORT & SOUL WORK Join the pack on Patreon…

People in this episode

Host: Brian James

Guest: Ramakant Gundecha

Topics covered

• Dhrupad music
• Indian music tradition
• music interviews
• podcast archives
• cultural celebration

Keywords

• Dhrupad
• Indian music
• Ramakant Gundecha
• music tradition
• podcast archives
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HITW Patreon, Medicine Path, Gundecha Brothers

Books & works: Sadharani Giti

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