Al Gromer KhanAl Gromer Khan
Sitar Master
Al Gromer Khan is an internationally acclaimed sitar instrumentalist and composer who has pioneered in the fields of ambient and world music for over twenty years.
Al Gromer Khan was born April 8, 1946 at Castle Honenthann situated at the alpine foothills of Bavaria near Lake Constance. He spent his early years in England, Morocco and India, where his father worked in Foreign Office. As a young man his travels took him to India, where he was honored by the great Imrat Khan, who took Al on as his student of sitar, and eventually gave him the most venerated title a musician can have in India, Khan.
After a long journey of exploring and studying various layers of the experience of music, "the certainty started to arise in my mind, that there was roughly half a million people out there in the world, who, deep inside of themselves long for an emotional expression of exactly the type that I was so overpowered with. I decided, the only way to reach these kindred spirits in style and mood, was not only through performing sitar music in live-situations but through recorded music."
In 1985 Al Gromer Khan opened his recording studio "The Paisley Room," where he recorded numerous albums including "Paisley Melodies," "The Perfumed Garden," "After the Crash" and "Chad and Roses." Today he lives and works in Munich, and has chosen an understated lifestyle that goes with his style of music: Quiet yet persistent, leaving pauses that serve as resting spaces between the notes and which in turn serve as triggers for the listener's imagination.
More information about Al Gromer Khan on New Earh Records.
Sitar Secrets
Monsoon Point
Tantra Electronics
Sitar Master
Al Gromer Khan is an internationally acclaimed sitar instrumentalist and composer who has pioneered in the fields of ambient and world music for over twenty years.
Al Gromer Khan was born April 8, 1946 at Castle Honenthann situated at the alpine foothills of Bavaria near Lake Constance. He spent his early years in England, Morocco and India, where his father worked in Foreign Office. As a young man his travels took him to India, where he was honored by the great Imrat Khan, who took Al on as his student of sitar, and eventually gave him the most venerated title a musician can have in India, Khan.
After a long journey of exploring and studying various layers of the experience of music, "the certainty started to arise in my mind, that there was roughly half a million people out there in the world, who, deep inside of themselves long for an emotional expression of exactly the type that I was so overpowered with. I decided, the only way to reach these kindred spirits in style and mood, was not only through performing sitar music in live-situations but through recorded music."
In 1985 Al Gromer Khan opened his recording studio "The Paisley Room," where he recorded numerous albums including "Paisley Melodies," "The Perfumed Garden," "After the Crash" and "Chad and Roses." Today he lives and works in Munich, and has chosen an understated lifestyle that goes with his style of music: Quiet yet persistent, leaving pauses that serve as resting spaces between the notes and which in turn serve as triggers for the listener's imagination.
More information about Al Gromer Khan on New Earh Records.
Sitar Secrets
Monsoon Point
Tantra Electronics
