Sounds neat! I’m planning to get some new bluegrass CD’s when we’ve recovered from the shock of Anoreth’s auto insurance: The Infamous Stringdusters, and Dale Ann Bradley.
I don’t mind listening to sitar, but I don’t know enough to really appreciate it.
Oops! Guess I could'a warned you about that. Have you found that second job yet? (The one you'll need to pay the extra cost of the auto insurance ...)
I got hooked on it in the late 60s (part of my fascination with instruments that drone -- including mountain dulcimer and bagpipe), but didn't really start building my collection of sitar raga recordings until a few years ago.
Ragas are an interesting art form. There is a very tightly scripted ground upon which one improvises, to create a work that goes on for 10, 20, 30 minutes or more. (There is something similar with the Great Highland Bagpipe, its classical music called piobaireachd or "pibroch", that can go to 40 minutes or more -- but every single note, gracenote and run of gracenotes is written down, and played entirely from memory.)
In the hotel in Bangalore, they would play (recorded) music during breakfast. I enjoyed the times they played ragas.