I took all my gear and head to Sindhology. After setup we waited. I hoped that the electricity would not go. We were recording sur Sorath, the longest piece of music in “Risalo”. Hasan Mohammad, the Surando player was coming from far away with his Banjo player as was Abdur Rahman Abroe, who would once again sing the Urdu verses. The surando is increasingly becoming a rare instrument. Master musicians like Hasan Mohammad are rare and this much loved instrument is at risk of vanishing.It does not take that much to support these musicians. If only the organizations, receiving government funding in Sindh allocated the designated funds to benefit them. If only the Sindhi tv channels created programming that gained a wide enough audience on the merits of their quality to pull in advertising money, rather than making musicians pay to have their music aired. If only the general public placed any kind of importance on their cultural heritage in monetary terms. I’m doing what I can, but I am not an organization.The recording session went really well. It was more difficult to judge how the bits we recorded would come together, but I feel like there were many special things about today. The mere presence of the surando brought a lot of excitement to everyone in the room. It is an all too rare and cherished treat to listen to this beautiful instrument these days.Today, I was even able to get overtime which helped us finish this long piece of music in a day. That was a huge win. Though I was exhausted at the end of the session and a bit unsure of how all of it would come together for the film, this was a much needed bit of success.After the session, we all had a meal together at a local dhaba. It was such an effort and stress to get to this point, that my feeling after recording was more of just exhaustion than even joy. Thanks as always to by friend Saqib Syd for the session photos and for just being there to help.