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“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”. (Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882), German poet and author)
I tried several times to make a portrait of my friend Gopal but I was never really satisfied with what I was getting.
However last morning something worked out well, maybe it was because of the turban, or the heat which didn’t allow him to control his expression, I can’t really tell.
Anyway I was talking to him since a while and I started to take pictures.
Gopal has a small music shop at Dasaswamedh Ghat, along the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras) called “Ganges C.D. Gallery”.
Several years ago I met him as I was walking there in the mist, early in a winter morning before sunrise, he was playing the mesmerising music of Prem Joshua which was connecting to the place and the hour so well.
Ever since he has been teaching me many things about Indian music, classical, sufi, fusion, rock, and most of all Shujaat Husain Khan whome I became addicted to.
He is also proudly showing the last album of Erik Truffaz, “Benares”, which he doesn’t sell but leaves in the middle of the wall in order to show people what means an Indo-Western fusion.
“Without music life would be a mistake”.
(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
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