General

In this C.D., I have experimented in 2 ways:

• I have shown the any range of the human voice can produced on the sitar.
  In playing Premasiri Khemadasa’s film songs on the sitar, I have shown that whatever the pitch singers sing in, I can play in the same pitch. It is very difficult task on a sitar: for example, Nanda Malini’s song, ‘Amma warune’ (song number 2 on CD) is singing on E flat and I play the song in the same scale. Then again, she sings the song ‘ada pamanak nowe apata hetak tiyanawa’ song (song number 4 on CD) on B flat and I played the same song on the same pitch.
• Only the tabla, flute and bongos are the acoustic instruments used here. All else has been played by me on the computer. I wanted to show that popular music can be played well through technology if used well.

Pradeepanjalee concert at the International Labour Organization Auditorium in Geneva, Switzerland, organized by the Sri Lankan Mission in Geneva.