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Inspired by user mjs538's take on this.

The early '50s through 1993 can be found here: 
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5 Seconds of Every #1 Billboard Hot 100 Hit From 1993-2011

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
OK Listen: https://www.oklisten.com/album/indosoul
iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/IndoSoul
Amazon: http://hyperurl.co/IndosoulAmazon

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

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

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.  

http://www.karthickiyer.com

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

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

At the Theatres - IndoSoul by Karthick Iyer Live

Music Video by @Ratkrish - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUVpJ3NwYh8
Alternate Download Link: http://www.box.net/shared/4jidqdl8dh

Surely you would've heard of the power of state of the art ceiling fan music by TR - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aYLMlCrjBk#t=052s

In Tamil, the "broken fan" is a metaphor for folks who say the same things again and again. These broken fans have blades, and they also blade everyone. 

So TR presents to you a series of such broken fans, featuring Ravi Shastri, Navjot Sidhu and Krish Srikkanth

Thanks to @cornerd and @naresha for pointing us to the necessary commentary clips and to @azaxacavabanama for providing the inspiration to make this song with his tweet - http://twitter.com/azaxacavabanama/status/42054249521233920

Guitar solo: played on a Fender Stratocaster connected to a GNX3 processor (used the default setting Tuned Cab)

TRacer Bullet

When I first heard Lungi dance from the movie Chennai express, it's incredible peppy catchiness only meant one obvious thing - someone needed to make a Western classical remix version. Imagine frilly dresses, wigs, Austrian nobility and state-of-the-art Erode lungis. 

The Violin and Cello were recorded on the really impressive Yeti Blue microphone, which is so sensitive that if you listen really hard, you can occasionally hear the pigeon on my window sill making enquiries about the local availability of pretty single pigeonesses. 

In addition to the tracks I recorded on my instruments, some software layers were used to expand the soundscape to do justice to this most excellent song. 

Danse Macabre De Lungi

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

A Chennai recontextualized version of The Doors' Riders on the Storm, with lyrics by Gurunarayana Ravi (https://twitter.com/raghuthaatha). This song is about the Auto drivers on the Chennai storm, wreaking havoc on the roads but they too have their side of the story to tell, a story of poverty and exploitative usury. 

It also features a Carnatic violin lead in the Raga Karaharapriya (Dorian mode) and the quintessential sound of a Chennai auto recorded by @mdeii 

Guitar - Fender Stratocaster recorded through a Boss ME-25 with a vibrato effect
Violin - Electric violin through Boss Me-25 with a delay
Percussion, bass and Wurlitzer organ - programmed on Logic Pro X

Lyrics (with translation)

Autokaran naan (I am an auto driver)
Chennai Autokaran naan (A Chennai autodriver I am)
MGR peran naan (I'm MGR's grandson)
Baasha machaan naan (I'm the Badshah's brother-in-law)
Auto tune thaan (the pitch perfect sound of the autotune)
Enga engine sattham thaan (is the sound of our engine)

I'm a terror on the road 
Vaanga come aboard (Please come aboard)
Anna Salayil (On Anna road in Chennai)
Seerum morattu kaalai naan (I'm the rampaging wild bull)
Police paathaakka (If the police happen to see me)
padhugum paambu naan (I'm the slithering snake that evades them)

Rendu pullakutteenga (I have 2 young children)
Saettu vaddi thollainga (the local pawn broker bleeds me with high interest loans)
Petrol velai thaan (The price of petrol)
eri pochunga (has risen skyward)
Meter pottaakka (if you insist on metered fare)
Vootla patnithaanunga (my family will starve)

Manja colouril (Of yellow hue...)
senja thanga therunga (is my golden chariot)
Ulagam pooraga (all over the world)
namma vandi odumga (my auto will run)
Ella oorilum (in every town)
namakku nalla perunga (I have a good reputation)
Nambi erunga (believe me and let's go for a ride)

Riders On The Auto

As a tribute to the utterly wonderful HBO series True Detective, this remix explores the similarities between the show's underlying theme of time being a flat circle and the Indian idea of Moksha, the release from that very circle of vicious repetition. 

So I took Thyagaraja's hauntingly brilliant "Mokshamu Galada" where he wonders if there is ever going to be Moksha without knowledge, and blended The Handsome Family's "Far from any road", the theme song of the show with it. 

Played on the following instruments
1. Yamaha C40 Classical guitar
2. Hofner beginner Cello
3. Electric violin

The raga is "Saramathi" which well into fits into the A minor key of the theme song

Far From Moksha

Alternate Song Title: What the day has soul / Imagine reprise

This song is based on the famous "Angry Bangladeshi Cricket Fan Rant" that has now been removed from Youtube. It features, apart from said fan, Goundamani and Vadivelu sharing their considered opinion of Navjot Singh Sidhu

Alternate Download Link: http://www.box.net/shared/g5uen62uvk





Sidhu Crap

A kutthu remix of the Game of Thrones theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53c8reh_uh0)


Game of Thrones Theme- Kutthu remix

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Intriguing Possibilities

A calm jazzy cover Version of the Sherlock Theme I played live on the e piano.

Sherlock Theme Cover (Calm Jazz)

A little something I improvised on the piano. It's the sherlock theme as a ballad.

If the soundcloud download doesn't work, download it via a downloader from my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftIQtWnhn8U

BBC Sherlock Ballad

Sherlock Holmes Cover (Blues)

On popular demand, the HJesque song from the podcast - http://soundcloud.com/parodesynoise/harris-jayaraj-for-dummies

@saffrontrail - Female vocals
@hariflute - Music, programming, male vocals
@krishashok - violin, male vocals

Mudhal Iravu

Darth Vaadhiar Theme

DragonBall Z - SSJ 3 Ascension

A hard rock rendition of a popular song featuring Madhuri Dixit

Behind the Corset

I had played the flute for a composition by http://soundcloud.com/balamurali-balu for a temple based romantic theme :-) do listen and leave off your comments shares etc. Its based on the raga Reethigowlai
Please do use headphones if possible...

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Temple Romance - Balamurali Balu - Featuring Flute

'Vathapi Ganapathim' - Hamsadhwani

'Jashn-e-bahara' (Flute Cover) - Bharathwaj ft. Mahesh, Ajay and Shreyas

Titanic OST Carnatic mashup - Bharathwaj ft. Mahesh, Ajay & Narayanan

Social Network OST - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - 02 - In Motion

Titli Dubstep Version (Full Audio Song) Chennai Express [2013]

I take the ridiculous and the sublime, add cellos, violins, guitars and random internet collaborators to make music of sorts

Far From Moksha

Krish Ashok