Anuradha Paudwal.

Anuradha Paudwal — “Om Jai Shiv Omkara - Shiv Aarti”

A devotional single rooted in the classical Shiv Aarti tradition, "Om Jai Shiv Omkara - Shiv Aarti" is Anuradha Paudwal in her element: a lead female vocal ornamented and clear, answering and being answered by a male chorus, the whole thing riding a steady tabla pulse and the resonant lines of what sounds like sitar. The thesis is restraint as devotion — nothing here reaches for effect, and that discipline is the point.