Bachchan releases Rahul Sharma & Richard Clayderman’s new Convergence
IMP News Wire

May 12 2008, J.W. Marriott, Juhu, Mumbai: The iconic Big B, Mr. Yash Chopra, Adnan Sami, & other distinguish guest including the audience experienced a fascinating exotica, a mystical marriage of the elements of melody and rhythm that took the entire auditorium to a mesmerizing journey of global music that blended the strings of classical, jazz, & pop, creating a perfect balance of cultural ideas.

After the stupendous success of Confluence, the magic duo of Rahul Sharma on Santoor and Richard Clayderman on piano came with another magical offering in their second collaboration ‘Confluence II’.

The album produced by India’s flagship music company Saregama India Ltd. was unveiled by the iconic Big B (who as a ritual came on time but still had to wait for Adnan). Anyway without waiting much longer, Big B unveiled the album and said, “Confluence II is the upbringing of the classical tradition of music in Rahul by Panditji’ Speaking on the lack on interest in Indian traditional music amongst today’s generation, he congratulated Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma and his disciple and son Rahul Sharma and said, "It’s good to see that Rahul has been brought up to follow his father's (Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma) footsteps, when young people get so easily distracted. I congratulate his parents for ensuring that musical heritage has been carried over by their son,".

The release was attended by film producer Yash Chopra, RPG, Chairman, Harsh Goenka, singer Adnan Sami and Rahul's father and Santoor maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma.

The album features the same combination of fusion music as its predecessor -- Confluence -- which stayed at the World Music charts for six years with Sharma on Santoor and Clayderman on piano.

The sound is more contemporary with a remix track added to entice the Club and House music listeners.
Seven of the nine tracks have been composed by Sharma and will be promoted by the video of the album's single 'The Chase'.

"Speaking as a guru, my biggest satisfaction is seeing Rahul take the instrument and try out something that I had not tried," Shiv Kumar Sharma proudly said.

Later Rahul Sharma mesmerized the entire auditorium with his strings, his santoor's range is much wider (Rahul's santoor has 89 strings), and that’s the reason it sounded sweeter.