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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! :) 


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

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Vaishnava Janato feat. Ramprasad Sundar - A contemporary version

" Brovabarama " , Violin Cover by Durai Srinivasan, an excellent talented person i have ever met :) and a Uyir nanban. Here is our recording take on one of the finest Carnatic Compositions "Brovabarama " 

Violin by Durai Srinivasan

Arranged and recorded by Raghav

Brovabarama - To The Soul

After a long time a good and fast recording session with durai srinivasan. Raaga Abheri Handled initially and towards the end ,watelse. Raaja SIr song dhaan :D :) 

Violin solo : Durai Srinivasan 
Strings and arrangement by Raghav Avinash 
RaghavMusical2014

The Magic of Raja Sir and Violins - Abheri

This past weekend, I tried recording my first video. 

-> Here is the video: 
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=218111615053468&set=vb.200260370171926&type=2&theater&notif_t=like
(Do like, share, subscribe and what not and show your love as always :-)

I played out Ilayaraja's masterpiece from the movie 'Olangal' Thumbi vaa and merged it into A R Rahman's Masterpiece from Roja. It was meant for two things.
1. To see whether video came out well - Turns out it did :P ;)
2. Just that I love both these songs and wanted to do it.

After people listened to this, I have got a lot of requests for enabling it for download, for making a longer version. I will definitely try and do it. But for now, here is the version as it stands. :-D

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My Previous works
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Cheerio!

Vijay

Kaapi - Ilayaraja and AR Rahman - My first Video

A Short Breezy clip played in The Ragam Nalinakanthi , Mixed awesomely by my talented Guruji / Music Director / Composer / Lyricist - Raghav Avinash.....A Serene feel indeed.

Journey with Nalinakanthi

This was a recording of raga karaharapriya that I had played I suppose more than three years back. I think I can play better now but felt some of the phrasings that I did play in this were quite decent enough to be shared with all of you... so here you go.... a breeze of Karaharapriya (in the same lines of https://soundcloud.com/indian_music_fan_2/arabhi) forgive any flaws etc.. :)

A breeze of Karaharapriya

Raga Surabhi completes 375 weeks! Coinciding with this milestone, we are happy to present a fusion of Thyagaraja's popular composition "Brovabarama".

Please do listen in to this groovy number, we are sure Vijay Kannan's magical Bahudari, will keep you captivated for a while! And please do feel free to share it with your friends and other music lovers :)

Song Credits -

Original melody and lyrics by Sri Thyagaraja Swamy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyagaraja)

Vocals: Uma Ram
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Music Conception, Arrangement and Flute: Vijay Kannan
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Mridangam: S G Balakrishna Rao
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Thanks to Balamurali Balu for support and inputs.
(https://www.facebook.com/balamurali.balu)

Recording Engineers:
Rakesh and Manikandan (Sonic pro studios, Chennai, India)
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Robert Graser (Unicorn Studios, Stuttgart, Germany)
http://unicornstudio.de/

As always, comments are welcome! :-)

Lyrics and meaning (from karnAtik.com (http://www.karnatik.com/c1002.shtml))

pallavi:

brOva bhAramA raghurAmA bhuvanamella nIvai nannokani

anupallavi:

shrI vAsudEva anDakOTula gukSiNi yuncakOlEdA nannu

caraNam:

kalashAmbudhilO dayatO namarulakai adigAka gOpi
kalakai koNDa letta lEdA karuNAkara tyAgarAjuni

Meaning:
Oh Karunaakaraa (a name for Vishnu), is it a heavy burden for you to protect a single soul like me? You are the whole universe itself and as Krishna showed it all to be in your stomach. Have you not lovingly borne for the sake of the Devas the whole weight of Mount Mandara when the ocean was churned, and have you not lifted Mount Govardhan for the sake of Gopis?

Brovabarama - Vijay Kannan Ft. Uma Ram and Balakrishna

EDIT: (11/11/2017) The reception towards this piece had motivated me to start the Beauty of Ragas series.  I have re-recorded and remastered the original track as I was never happy with the quality of the flute recording. I hope you all like it as well now.. :)

A sequel to my previous composition for my blog posting on the raga Nalinakanthi : http://aboutindianmusic.com/2012/03/raga-nalinakanthi-part-2/ 

I hope unlike the usual way in which sequels suck, this is better than the previous. 

Do use headphones please :-)

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Beauty Of Nalinakanthi - REDONE - (REMASTERED)

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

Recorded at My Friend; Music director Mr.Raghav Avinash's house.

Carnatic Violin Solo

Here's a medley of A.R.Rahman's Vellai Pookal and Vatapi Ganapathim, one of my favourite songs to open a concert with! :)

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

KARTHICK IYER LIVE
Contemporary 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. Dressed in a dazzling Moghul costume, holding his 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 srinivasan.karthick@gmail.com

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


YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Thekarthickiyer
Official Website - http://www.karthickiyer.com


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

Vellai Pookal - Vatapi medley

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

Always a favourite at wedding and corporate concerts! :)  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

Credits
Violin - Karthick Iyer
Programming - Ramprasad Sundar

Originally composed by A.R. Rahman for the film Indira


Check our youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/Thekarthickiyer

Karthick Iyer links
Official website - http://www.karthickiyer.com

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

Nila Kaigirathu - A Violin 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

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


Check his youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/Thekarthickiyer

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

Brovabarama - Release the burdens - Free Download

Ye Jo Des - A.R. Rahman |Unplugged|

For a class project, I had to come up with an artistic mission and a project that reflects that mission. Over the last few years, I have been very interested in mixing different styles of music; this is the basis for my world fusion band, Jugal Vandy, and the remixes/mashups that are on my SoundCloud page. For the demo portion of my project, I composed an original refrain in Bilahari Ragam and, with a few friends, I recorded a song that fuses elements of Carnatic music and Jazz music. 

This is my very first recording where I am both a performer and the producer. All the recording, mixing, and editing was done by me. I would like to especially thank Shelby for writing the Jazz chord progression. Also thanks to Richard and Vinay for helping me out with this project.

Saxophone: Shyam
Piano: Shelby Flowers
Guitar: Richard Droghini
Drumset and Congas: Vinay Shroff

Hope you enjoy it!

Bilahari Blues

Bantu Reethi Kolu - Carnatic Instrumental - Nadashwaram

http://karthickiyer.com - 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!


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

Credits
Violin - Karthick Iyer
Guitar - Vikram Vivekanand
Percussion - Allwyn Paul
Bass - Naveen Napier
Mridangam - Sumesh Narayan

For Concert Bookings:
Email:  karthickiyer.music@gmail.com
Mobile Number: +91 77009 08966
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/karthickiyerlive
Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/karthickiyer