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a very short sketch of the raga Arabhi. Played quite a long time back for my dear friend and lil sis @justsomeone .


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Other Works

http://soundcloud.com/indian_music_fan_2/basanthi-raga-flute-harp : Alaap of raga bAsanthi / vAsanthi

http://soundcloud.com/indian_music_fan_2/keeravani-raga-flute : Alaap of Keeravani raga

http://soundcloud.com/indian_music_fan_2/ranajani-raga-carnatic-flute : Alaap of Ranjani raga

http://soundcloud.com/indian_music_fan_2/thodi-raga-carnatic-flute : Alaap of Thodi (carnatic) raga

http://soundcloud.com/indian_music_fan_2/raga-darbari-kaanada-vocal : attempt at singing Darbari kaanada

A breeze of Arabhi

http://karthickiyer.com - Presenting you one of Gandhiji's favourite bhajans in our own style. Ram and I created this track a couple of years ago when we were jointly producing music for ads and films. Hope you like it! :) 


Karthick Iyer Live’s 1st album "IndoSoul - Looking Within To Look Beyond" is now available on
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Amazon: http://hyperurl.co/IndosoulAmazon

Violin, vocals - Karthick Iyer
Arrangement, programming, mix and master - Ramprasad Sundar

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Vaishnava Janato feat. Ramprasad Sundar - A contemporary version

At the Theatres is Karthick Iyer Live's first ever vocal based track. This song is about a day in the life of some people who go to the theatre to watch a play. This play explores relationships between a man and woman leaving the audience with an imprint of the similar situations they face in their lives everyday.  

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Karthick Iyer Live’s 1st album "IndoSoul - Looking Within To Look Beyond" is now available on
OK Listen: https://www.oklisten.com/album/indosoul
iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/IndoSoul
Amazon: http://hyperurl.co/IndosoulAmazon

Composed and written by Karthick Iyer

Vocals, violin - Karthick Iyer
Lead Guitar - Vikram Vivekanand
Bass Guitar - Naveen Napier
Percussion/drums - Allwyn Paul
Mridangam - Sumesh Narayan

Recorded at Aura Studios, Chennai
Mixed by Bob Phukan(Aura Studios)
Mastered by Andy Bartow

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At the Theatres - IndoSoul by Karthick Iyer Live

Something I composed today. 

As always, if you liked it please do share it with your friends too. ;)

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Redemption - A short theme

The genius Carnatic vocalist Madurai Mani Iyer (1912-1968), possibly the greatest exponent of live improvisation in Carnatic classical music, popularized this "English Note" composed by Harikesanallur Mutthiah Bhagavathar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNjl5w8Prw0) to showcase his autodidactic (self teaching) talent in expanding beyond his strictly classical training. This piece was extremely popular with an independence era audience that felt pride in one of their own "getting" western music while no Englishman could perform a Thodi alapana. 

Obviously as a Indian classical musician, Mutthiah Bhagavathar only composed the main melody, an incredibly catchy and hummable tune that would have worked in the best courts of Vienna. But Western classical music is about harmony layered over the melody and I was surprised that no one had taken a crack at taking this really catch melody and writing a String quartet around it. 

There were some interesting challenges. Mani Iyer clearly did not keep harmony in mind when he wrote the piece so there are places where the melodic sequence presents quite a hard challenge to harmonize, but all in all, I think it turned out okayish. 

Again, I am quite an amateur and It will be great if more talented musicians take this melody and set it to even better background scores :)

English Note (by Madurai Mani Iyer) - String Quartet

It's Republic day and when I heard Nigel Britto's beautiful classical guitar rendition of Jana Gana Mana (https://soundcloud.com/nigel-britto/jana-gana-mana), it struck me that @hariramnarayanan and me had done a minor key version of this song almost 4 years ago. 

Considering how touchy and armchair-patriotic many of us can be, I am loath to call this a "cover version" of the National Anthem. Just think of it as a minor key cover version of a major scale melody that happens to be used for our national anthem. 

The idea was that a minor key captured, with its natural sombreness, the less uplifting aspects of our country. 

Piano: Hari
Violin: Me

Jana Gana Minor

A small tribute to Pete Seeger (1919-2014). I grew up singing Hum Honge Kaamyaab in school and the song's simple, yet powerful ability to move people who are singing it together has always fascinated me. 

ps: I am still very amateur with the Cello so forgive the bowing errors. 

We Shall Overcome (Hum honge Kaamyaab)

A Carnatic classical remix of Daft Punk's Get Lucky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I).  The raga is Karnaranjani (well, approximately). 

Daft Pankajam

Composed by @hariflute as a memorial tribute to our friend Balachandar's Dalmatian Tommie, who passed away recently. (http://vimeo.com/28183556)
Piano - Harish
Violins (One acoustic &amp; one electric) and Cello - Krish Ashok
The Cello presented a few recording challenges, primarily one of mic placement. But since the notes being played were in the lower registers, it turned out OK. It will be interesting to see how higher pitched notes sound with this placement because they sounded quite nasal when I tried it out.
For the acoustic violin, I used a Samson condenser mic but I'm not altogether sure the placement was right. A 100 year old German violin really ought to have a brighter, heavier sound without any fancy processing. But well, I suppose one has to keep trying. To avoid background noise, I had to switch off the fan and the A/C, which made it quite uncomfortable in the room.
The Electric violin of course is quite simple. Just plugin straight into the sound interface and one is good to go, but unless the instrument is quite high end, it's impossible to get that particular natural violin sound. I'll need a few more promotions at work to afford a better electric violin though.


Missing Tommie

An alaap of a Raga Bindumalini/Ahir Bhairav/Chakravaham on my Indian Bamboo flute. 

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Ahir bhairav/chakravaham/bindumalini Flute/Bansuri

I have played different styles of music from traditional carnatic to film-pop. However something that I've always leaned towards is to explore the idea of propping up our beautiful classical music against various genres like pop, rock, jazz etc. So here is a song from my outfit Karthick Iyer Live. We have played Thyagaraja's krithi Manavyala in the raga Nalinakanthi.

Do share! :) 

Covers music got a lively twist with the entrance of Karthick Iyer Live. Karthick Iyer who has played with bands and in festivals spanning almost all the continents in the world, has contemporized the existing format to suit the ever changing needs of the audiences. His concerts are known to touch every single person in the crowd, from old to new and from the laymen to the learned. He spices up his concerts with medleys of English, Tamil and Carnatic songs rolled into one. Dressed in a dazzling Moghul costume, holding a blue electric violin and armed with a compelling selection of Tamil, Hindi, English and Carnatic songs, Karthick is ready to cast a spell!

For wedding, corporate and other gig bookings please email karthickiyer.music@gmail.com

Musician Credits
Electric Violin - Karthick Iyer
Guitars - Akshay Chakrapani
Mridangam - Sumesh Narayanan
Percussion - Varun
Live Sound - Ramprasad

Karthick Iyer Live’s 1st album "IndoSoul - Looking Within To Look Beyond" is now available on
OK Listen: https://www.oklisten.com/album/indosoul
iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/IndoSoul
Amazon: http://hyperurl.co/IndosoulAmazon

For Concert Bookings:
Email:  karthickiyer.music@gmail.com
Mobile Number: +91 77009 08966

Carnatic fusion music- Manavyalakim by Karthick Iyer Live

Karthick Iyer Live’s 1st album "IndoSoul - Looking Within To Look Beyond" is now available on
OK Listen: https://www.oklisten.com/album/indosoul
iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/IndoSoul
Amazon: http://hyperurl.co/IndosoulAmazon

A Contemporary violin adaptation of Brovabarama(Thyagaraja krithi)

I have played different styles of music from traditional carnatic to film-pop. However something that I've always leaned towards is to explore the idea of propping up our beautiful classical music against various genres like pop, rock, jazz etc. So here is a song from my outfit Karthick Iyer Live. We have played Thyagaraja's krithi Brovabarama in the raga Bahudari

Do share! :) 

Covers music got a lively twist with the entrance of Karthick Iyer Live. Karthick Iyer who has played with bands and in festivals spanning almost all the continents in the world, has contemporized the existing format to suit the ever changing needs of the audiences. His concerts are known to touch every single person in the crowd, from old to new and from the laymen to the learned. He spices up his concerts with medleys of English, Tamil and Carnatic songs rolled into one. Dressed in a dazzling Moghul costume, holding a blue electric violin and armed with a compelling selection of Tamil, Hindi, English and Carnatic songs, Karthick is ready to cast a spell!

For wedding, corporate and other gig bookings please email karthickiyer.music@gmail.com

Musician Credits
Electric Violin, vocals - Karthick Iyer
Piano - Leon James
Mridangam - Sumesh Narayanan
Kanjira - Kishor
Live Sound - Mahesh


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Brovabarama - Release the burdens - Free Download

Was in mood for thodi and ranjani yesterday....very freestyle....forgive if u spot some blemishes.... ranjani also uploaded separately...

pic from google images...btw thats not me.. :-D

Thodi Raga - Carnatic - Flute

Recorded at 7:30am on a Wednesday at Alok's place in a state of grogginess :P
The vocals were taken in one take and have not been touched. So please forgive mistakes!
Hope you enjoy this! It's my 1st internet upload! :D

Credits:
Alok Merwin - For recording me :)
Roshni Maria Vincent - For making me believe I could pull this song off :)
And every one of my friends who made me put this up :)

If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys (Cover)

Karthick Iyer Live’s 1st album "IndoSoul - Looking Within To Look Beyond" is now available on
OK Listen: https://www.oklisten.com/album/indosoul
iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/IndoSoul
Amazon: http://hyperurl.co/IndosoulAmazon

For Concert Bookings:
Email:  karthickiyer.music@gmail.com
Mobile Number:+91 77009 08966
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Madurai Mani Notes - Indian Violin

Piano score recorded through a MIDI keyboard and heavily corrected for mistakes. 

Ave Maria

♫♫ للمزيد من الموسيقى العالمية ♫♫ 
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Aksarayin Hüznü-noota music

Raga: Panthuvaraali (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamavardani)
Composer: Swati Tirunal

Lyrics & Notation: http://www.shivkumar.org/music/sarasaksha.htm

Thanks to an earthing problem at home, I had to do quite a bit of jugglery to marginally mute an ugly droning sound that crept into the recording. For those interested in sound engineering, I used a high pass filter that removed the annoying bassy part of the drone. 

Saarasaaksha Paripaalaya

Now available on :
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Google Play Music : https://play.google.com/music/m/Ashewzagys2pcr7jzma4lpbmsxa?t=Indosoul_by_Karthick_Iyer

Prelude in Bilahari is IndoSoul's take on the Indian classical song Paridana Meechite, originally composed by Patnam Subramaniya Iyer in the 19th century. This violin and piano duet performed by Karthick Iyer and Dondieu Divin brings together the rich tradition of Indian and Western classical music with the violin melody in Raga Bilahari interwoven with Bach inspired lines on the piano.

Audio Credits:

Violin : Karthick Iyer
Piano : Dondieu Divin
Original song composed by : Shri Patnam Subramanya Iyer
Arranged by Dondieu Divin
Recorded and mixed by Biju James(VGP Studios, Chennai) 
Mastered by Madhu Viswanathan

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Prelude in Bilahari | IndoSoul by Karthick Iyer | Dondieu Divin

A violin and guitar adaptation of the song from Maryan

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Divya Kadambi