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# The Soul of Sunset: Raag Marwa Aalap in Edinburgh by Pt. Ajay Prasanna

Raga Unison at Edinburgh: Wind, Drums and Strings | Double Bill Concert · Assembly Rooms · Edinburgh

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  ## Performance details

### Musicians

- [Pandit Ajay Prasanna](/en-gb/artist/ajay-prasanna)
    
     [Flute](/en-gb/instrument/flute)
 
 

  Raga  [Marwa](/en-gb/raga/marwa)  

   Event  [Raga Unison at Edinburgh: Wind, Drums and Strings | Double Bill Concert](/en-gb/event/raga-unison-at-edinburgh-wind-drums-and-strings-double-bill-concert)  

 Venue  [Assembly Rooms](/en-gb/venue/assembly-rooms)  

 City  [Edinburgh](/en-gb/place/edinburgh)  

   Recording format  Live Performance  

 Duration  19:31  

 Quality  4K  

 Resolution  3840x2160  

 Published  6 January 2026  

  

 ## Performance notes

[**Pandit Ajay Prasanna**](/artist/ajay-prasanna), a three-time Grammy-nominated bansuri player from the **Banaras Gharana**, performed this **Aalap** in [**Raag Marwa**](/raga/marwa) at the [Raga Unison at Edinburgh](/event/raga-unison-edinburgh-wind-drums-and-strings-double-bill-concert) double-bill concert, held at the **Assembly Rooms** in Edinburgh on 16 November 2025.

Raag Marwa belongs to the **Marwa Thaat** and takes sunset as its samay. Its defining characteristic is the strict omission of the Pancham (Pa), which removes the raga's natural anchor and sends the melody into a restless outward motion from Sa. The **Komal Rishabh** functions as the vadi, the raga's most-weighted note, and in combination with Shuddha Dhaivat, creates a friction that resists resolution. This structural absence, associated with the concept of **Tyaga**, accounts for the raga's characteristic outward pull.

In this nineteen-minute Aalap, Prasanna works through Marwa's characteristic phrases on the bansuri with the breath control this raga demands. He returns to the komal Re, reaching toward Nishad before descending through the sharp Ma, the raga's other distinctive note, and back toward Sa without resting there. Prasanna sustains the raga's tension across long, slow phrases, each one completing its arc before the next begins.



 

  ## Credits

  Flute Ajay Prasanna 

 Cinematography Sri Chowdary & Ibrahim Salah 

 Film Editing Mukul Kumar 

  

 ##   Featured Raga 

###  [ Marwa ](/en-gb/raga/marwa) 

 मारवा

 S r G M# D N S' | S' N D M# G r S

 

   [Marwa](/en-gb/thaat/marwa)    Early evening   Shadava-Shadava  

A profound twilight raga of the Marwa Thaat. Defined by its unsettling Vadi of Komal Re (r) and the omission of Pancham (Pa), it captures the spirit of Tyaga (renunciation). Performable at sunset, it is known globally for its "Centrifugal" geometry that pushes away from the tonic, creating a restless, mystical atmosphere.

 

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