Deekshant Malvi

The music that moved me was easy to hear and surprisingly hard to follow. A recording would lead to a name, and the name would lead nowhere in particular — no sense of who taught this person, what instrument tradition they came from, or which other musicians they shared a stage or a lineage with. That context is what turns a recording into something you can understand.

So I began putting it in one place. Contributing through my technical skills felt like the most honest thing I could do for an art I love but do not practise professionally.

The archive helps people discover musicians, their music, their teachers, their lineages and the traditions they belong to. Every musician has a permanent page, and those pages are joined to the instruments, gharanas and schools around them, so one page leads naturally to the next.

Facts are sourced and referenced, gaps are left visibly open, and where reliable sources disagree the page says so rather than choosing a tidy answer. It is a slow project, and deliberately so.

This is an independent project and it gets better when people who know more than I do get involved. Corrections, missing names, a properly credited photograph, a link to an authorised recording, or a memory of a concert — all of it is welcome.

If you are a musician here, or close to one, you can also ask to look after your own page. Access is by invitation to a named email address, page by page.