This album features yet another innovative and exciting event representing a cross-cultural meeting, bringing together of musicians and instruments from worlds apart, from the East and West. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and his sons Amaan and Ayaan have worked with Matthew Barley for the past few years to bridge the two systems and cultures by understanding the nuances of the two genres and expressing them in a way that adds to the beauty of the two instruments and makes for a most pleasing experience. It is almost certainly the first time that these two instruments have been paired on a recording. This album features performances from two concerts; the first part, Raga Kirwani, from a concert at London's Royal Festival Hall (September 2002), is a trio performance between Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash on Sarod and Matthew Barley on the Cello, while the second part of the album features the same trio, now joined by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, also on Sarod, at a concert at New Delhi's Sirifort Auditorium (November 2002) playing Raga Bhairavi.