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


"The carnatification", a carnatic musical presentation on a electric guitar is what makes the album entirely different from the others in the market. The  carnatification is nothing but CARNATIC MODIFICATION . The album is filled with pure essence of carnatic music of highest order, comprising of high standard and popular krithis by the greats such as muthuswamy dikshidar, thyarajar, periyaswamy thooran , patnam Subramaniayam Iyer, madurai mani Iyer and purandaradasar. And as a highlight have my first composition too, a peppy ragamalika number. 
               
                   THE UNIQUENESS 

               The album is distinctly unique for the style of playing with double octaves , harmonies, and artificial harmonies and highly grooved swara sections which are completely new to the audience of carnatic. . I LL assure it to be a youth favorite because of the electric guitar factor and the recording quality and the brand names in the album.

              BIG SHOTS IN THE ALBUM

            THE CARNATIFICATION  has some real big names who are currently at the peak in the carnatic feild. I have been accompanied by my dad and percussion maestro Prapancham Ravindran on the mridangam , kanjira maestro B.S.Purushottam and hugely reputed DR.S. Karthick on the Ghatam. The 3 rhythm heroes have provided some brilliant grooves with the electric guitar , thus making it sound epic. 


Raghuvamsa Sudha

Vocals and music arrangement : @bharadwaj-cv ( #bharadwaj-cv )
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Hamir Kalyani | Sharadhe Karunanidhe | Carnatic fusion

Annapoornae - Sama

Composed by Shri Andal, an 9th century Aalwar saint

Copyright © 2016 Vinod Krishnan

Vocal and background score: Vinod Krishnan
Mixing and mastering: Nick Dawes


karupUram nArumO kamalappU nArumO
tirupavazhach chevvAi tAn tittirukkumO

maruppositta mAdhavan tAn vAiccuvaiyum nATramum
viruppuTruk-kETkinrEn sollAzhi veN shangE

uNbadu sollil ulagaLandAn vAi amudam kaN paDai koLLal kaDal vaNNan kaittalattE
pEN paDaiyAr un mEl pErum pUsal sATruginrAr paNpala seiginrAi pAncajanniyamE

Copyright © 2016 Vinod Krishnan

Karpooram naarumo

the ragam - Vaagadeeswari, Something which haunts without any reason . ;) !!


Relaxing with Vaagadeeshwari

A western classical version of an Indian Carnatic song, Mokshamu Galada, played on Indian bamboo flute, inspired by the Madras String Quartet of VS Narasimhan.

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Mokshamu Galada

Small recording with my new Yamaha Yev violin and my New Lightning Bow !! :)

Pudhu Vellai Mazhai - From the ' LIGHTNING BOW ' - Durai Srinivasan

Over the past year my increasing interest in Electronic music(EDM, House, etc) has led me to envision the interplay between Carnatic ragas and EDM synths and grooves on track. I came up with this track when I was playing some synthesizers in a western melodic scale called Phrygian. I found myself humming an alaap in Raga Sindhu Bhairavi soon as a couple of synth phrases were done. There seems to be such an irresistable pull between the beautiful variations of the raga and the repetitive nature of the electronic part underneath. Here is a version of me playing a violin alaap and swaram in Raga Sindhu Bhairavi as the first video of a new series, House of Carnatic.


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Sindhubhairavi - Flow

The first track from a new series - Carnatic Projekt, here I present Alaipayuthey.

Song: Alaipayuthey
Ragam: Kaanada
Talam: Adi
Oothukkadu Venkata Kavi

Arrangement, Flute, Video: Vijay Kannan
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Carnatic Projekt

Alaipayuthe

Carnatic Projekt - Ep 1: Alaipayuthey

Presenting my next original composition 'Dreams In Tune' set in Ragam Kanada. The track portrays various emotions and explores the nuances of this soulful ragam. Sit back and experience this kanada contemporary. 

Composed, Arranged and played on Violin - Durai Srinivasan
Percussions - Martin.

#kanada #dreams #contemporary