German sitar player and composer Al Gromer Khan, born in 1946, dedicated his life to the instrument after hearing Ustad Vilayat Khan perform at Westminster Abbey in 1968. He studied for three years in India under Ustad Imrat Khan, and in 1975 became the first outsider ever accepted into the Khan-i-Gharana lineage of sitarists. Since the 1970s he has released roughly two dozen solo albums, and in 2015 received the Rabindranath Tagore Cultural Prize for lifetime achievement.

Mood and energy: Devotional, intricate, timeless. Recommended uses: meditation, reflection, nature immersion.

Sacred Ground Confidence Score: 5 out of 5 stars   Final recommendation: Approved.

Why this artist belongs in Sacred Sounds: A sitarist of rare lineage-level authenticity and international recognition, whose decades-deep catalog gives Sacred Ground genuine classical Hindustani credibility within its Meditation and Reflection collections.