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

A Saranga Convergence started out from a quest initially to make a psychedelic song. However what came about was a song that had strong influences of progressive rock and time signature experiments along with a carnatic 'thillana like' melody . This whole song came about within a few hours of jamming with the musicians and remains one of our favourites. 

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Karthick Iyer Live’s 1st album "IndoSoul - Looking Within To Look Beyond" is now available on
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Performed by Karthick Iyer Live
Violins/Vocals/Lyrics - Karthick Iyer
Guitars - Vikram Vivekanand
Bass guitar - Naveen Napier
Mridangam/percussion - Sumesh Narayanan
Drums - Ramkumar Kanakarajan

Mixed by Biju James
Mastered by Andy Bartow
Recorded at VGP studios, Aura Studios

IndoSoul
The Indian civilization has stood the test of time, welcoming and absorbing numerous cultures along the way. It has reinvented itself with every addition, but never lost its depth. In a similar vein, IndoSoul goes beyond the confines of genre, seeks out and welcomes other musical influences, while retaining its core identity of Indianness. It breaks down superficial barriers between genres, instruments, cultures, languages to bring out deep commonalities that define great music everywhere.

A Saranga Convergence - IndoSoul by Karthick Iyer Live

My journey to choosing the narrow path as I hear it in music. Beautiful chaos. Lifts and falls, ebbs and flows, peaks and troughs but finding my way home.

Journey to the Narrow Path

Vocals and music arrangement : @bharadwaj-cv ( #bharadwaj-cv )
Do hit the small like button if you like it. Earphones recommended :) Learnt this song from Bombay Jayashree mam, 2 years back. Thought would give it a shot. This is my tribute to her :)
You can also check my other works on youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/ganeshbharadwaj?sub_confirmation=1

Hamir Kalyani | Sharadhe Karunanidhe | Carnatic fusion

Sita Kalyanam

An Asha Bhonsle number. Excuse the pronounciation. Was recorded right after Kanne, again as a voice sample. Programmed and recorded by Sindhu :)

Ghazal - Bhini Bhini

Late night Ramblings - KI Live

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

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

Own Comp

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

An orchestral adaptation of Naadaloludai by Thyagaraja in Raga Kalyana Vasantham

Naadaloludai

I asked my 80 year old grandaunt (Saraswathi Sankaranarayanan) who is stuck in my place due to the Covid-19 lockdown to record a simple song that my 8 year old son could learn to sing. She picked this 500 year old Tiruppugazh 1328 (Erumayil Eri), and I played the violin accompaniment and added an ambient guitar background
Lyrics/Translation: http://kaumaram.com/thiru/nnt1328_u.html#english

Erumayil Eri

http://karthickiyer.com - Adamodi, a collaboration with the awesome Tony Das﻿, rock guitarist from Bangalore a couple of years ago! We recorded this casually at one of our jams and remains one of my favourites! 

Cheers to Willy Demoz﻿ for being part of this project!  :)

This song is an adaptation of Adamodi Galada, Thyagarajar krithi in raga Charukesi.

Violin - Karthick Iyer
Lead guitar, bass - Tony Das

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Adamodi Karthick Iyer ft Tony Das

Singer, violinist, composer. Creator of IndoSoul. Bridging cultures by bringing out deep commonalities that define great music everywhere. The band, Karthick Iyer Live is a collaboration of musicians from diverse musical backgrounds. An electric violin, mridangam, guitar, bass and drums along with vocals form the core. The band breaks down superficial barriers between genres, cultures and languages to bring out the deep commonalities that define IndoSoul.

Karthick Iyer Live is a collaboration of musicians from diverse musical backgrounds. An electric violin, mridangam, guitar, bass and drums along with vocals form the core. The band breaks down superficial barriers between genres, cultures and languages to bring out the deep commonalities that define IndoSoul.