Hi Kenny, no clue if you ever read the comments on here, but just wanted to ask what're your views on the Gen Z vs  millennial take? And how do you feel the future is going to be when the "TikTok" age teens become adults?

Vivek Sagar - Writing/Arrangement and Guitars
Meghna Dundhi - Vocals
Sanjay Das - Drums and Mix
Varun Venugopal - Electric Bass

Out of control

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 lovely song by The Great Big World feat Christina Aguilera. Even though i love over-recording harmonies, I decided to this cover super clean with just me sitting in front of my keyboard and singing it. Hope you like it ;)

Say Something Cover By Kenneth Sebastian

A song that took three years to finally be complete. Written by Kenneth Sebastian and Siddhanth Sundar.

The video is footage I shot while travelling for my shows. They include Dubai, Amritsar and Bangalore. See here :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk5fd33kCy0&feature=youtu.be

Soulfully reimagined by Prashanth Mathias (AudioKraft Bangalore).

ADHURA "INCOMPLETE" ORIGINAL SONG BY KENNY SEBASTIAN

An adaptation of Ilayaraja's "En Iniya Pon" from the film Moodu Pani with fellow Raja enthusiast @mediumcoffee . This project is called "Le Rogeur" and the idea was not to do a literal cover but improvise liberally while still retaining the semblance of the original song. Here we take Raja's original harmony/chord structure & use more jazzy variants. The other improv happens in the interludes, where we start out sounding like the original interlude but wander off into different territories. We hope to do a few more of these under the "Le Rogeur" moniker over the next few weeks. And oh, another thing. For this project, in recognition of the technical challenges of Ilayaraja's golden years (the 80s), we will only use real instruments live-recorded without any software programming. 

Piano, Tonewheel organ - @Mediumcoffee
Vocals, Cello, Guitar, Bass - @krishashok

En Iniya Pon

Iruvar BGM - Kalpana's Theme

Iruvar BGM from thalaivar ARR. Who else can create this masterpiece...

Kalpana's theme

A minimalist Flute and Piano adaptation of Ilayaraja's Kannan Vandhu from the soundtrack of Rettai Vaal Kuruvi
Flute: @indian_music_fan
Arrangement: @mediumcoffee & @krishashok

Kannan Vandhu

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I am really happy with the questions I got for this episode, Also due to my DIY shooting of this episode outdoors, a helicopter was almost successful in delaying my shoot. From topics ranging to tolerance, to clarity from retrospecting and the audience interpreting what you say. 

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Lost Confidence - Simple Ken | EP 15

Simple Ken is hosted by Kenny Sebastian, A stand up comedian known for his observational humour and quirky stage presence.

A simple podcast about tackling the weekly conflicts of a comedian. 

A strictly "no advice" podcast.

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Hope you had a good week! Apart from students across India facing exam stress during the worst possible time, I got questions recording the dilemma of being a doctor during this period, seeing the worst in others and why facing negativity on your path towards betterment isn't necessarily a bad thing. 

You can Tweet/Youtube/ Instagram your questions/topics/queries discuss for the next week episode using the hashtag #simpleken.

Simple Ken is available on all major podcasts platforms for free including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Gaana and Soundcloud.

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Navigating Negativity - Simple Ken | EP 16

Simple Ken is hosted by Kenny Sebastian, A stand up comedian known for his observational humour and quirky stage presence.

A simple podcast about tackling the weekly conflicts of a comedian. 

A strictly "no advice" podcast.

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I tried something new this week. Got a guest! I mean with the trend of having zoom calls, I was a little apprehensive of the inherent lag it entails but surprisingly it wasn't that bad. Also, It's about time I accepted the fact that things aren't gonna change for a while. I was eagerly waiting to do another episode with Kanan and it was so great to have him back on the show, especially when the show has come so far from its humble beginnings. We covered topics from defining what is home, why movie structures are weak and why activas are amazing. 

You can Tweet/Youtube/ Instagram your questions/topics/queries discuss for the next week episode using the hashtag #simpleken.

Simple Ken is available on all major podcasts platforms for free including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Gaana and Soundcloud.

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Creative Sanctuary (Feat. Kanan Gill) - Simple Ken | EP 17

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

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Lost Confidence - Simple Ken | EP 15

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