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A western instrumental based on the scale of the carnatic raga hemavathi

Ethereal Gypsy on Route Fifty Eight

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
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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

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

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At the Theatres - IndoSoul by Karthick Iyer Live

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from "Wedding Bells EP" out January 2014 on LuckyMe 
Premiered on Zane Lowe BBC Radio One & Pitchfork, Monday 25th November
Piano and Add Prod by Lido
Vocals by Ryn Weaver

Wedding Bells EP

iTunes

With Me

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 violin and cello version of AR Rahman's "Raasaathi" from the movie Thiruda Thiruda. There are 6 violin layers and 3 cello layers recorded separately. The accompanying violin layers were recorded on an electric violin but the lead melody was done on an acoustic violin to give it that folksy feel. 

Raasaathi

A collaboration with the brilliantly talented @rvijaynarain, this is a mashup of a Marwari dialect thumri Senraan Ra Baairya (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h7p4-15ZNU) and Kailash Kher's rendition of Kabir's Naiharwa. 

Both are love songs, but go deeper than just physical desire. The first one asks to be carried away by the sweet breeze while the second one uses the metaphor of a bride separated from her beloved to hint at the fallacy of duality (advaita, if you will)

Vocals: @rvijaynarain
Guitar, Violin and Arrangement: @krishashok
Key: F major
Beat: 7/4

Lyrics

سینڑاں را بائریا دھیمو مدھرو ری باج
senṛaan ra baairya dheemo madhuro ri baaj
listen, O breeze, softly and sweetly blow
دھیمو دھیمو مدھرو ری باج رے بائریا
dheemo dheemo madhuro ri baaj re baaireeya
softly, softly, sweetly blow, O breeze
سینڑاں را بائریا دھیمو مدھرو ری باج
senṛaan ra baairya dheemo madhuro ri baaj
listen, O breeze, softly and sweetly blow

تنری بنڑاؤں ڈھولا راجی تانسلی اے لو
tanri banṛaaoon dhola raaji taansali e lo
I make a serving dish, sweetheart, of my physical being
منڑے ری کروں من وار رے بائریا
manṛe ri karoon man waar re baaireeya
and following my heart, I offer up my heart to you, O breeze
سینڑاں را بائریا دھیمو مدھرو ری باج
senṛaan ra baairya dheemo madhuro ri baaj
listen, O breeze, softly and sweetly blow

साई कि नगरी ...परम अति सुन्दर,
Saai ki nagari...param ati sundar
My Beloved’s Town is Most Beautiful

जहाँ कोई जाए ना आवे
jahaan joi jaaye naa aavey
However, Nobody Goes or Comes from There

चाँद सुरज जहाँ, पवन न पानी,
chaand suraj jahaan, pavan na paani
There is no Moon, Sun, Wind or Water There

कौ संदेस पहुँचावै
kou sandes pahunchaavey
Then Who Will Take My Message There?

दरद यह... साई को सुनावै
darad yah...saai ko sunaavey
Then Who Will Tell My Pain to My Beloved?

नैहरवा हम का न भावे
Naiharwa ham ka na bhavey
I Don’t Find any Interest in My Parent’s House


Senraan Ra Baairya - Naiharwa Redux

Release -> 26.5.2014 Beatport // 09.06.2014 iTunes,Amazon etc.

Label-> der Turnbeutel

Lexer is back on "der turnbeutel" ! After "My Princess" in 2013 here comes the brand new Single "Gatherer"

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Gatherer (Original Mix)

Free Download

LH4L - Erogene

A cover of a beautiful Hindi song composed by Monty Sharma for the film Saawariya (2007) - Originally rendered by Shreya Ghoshal

Created in December 2008
Posted in October 2011

Thode Badmash - Cover of a Hindi number by Monty Sharma from Saawariya

A R Rahman-Rockstar-tum ho on flute by Himanshu

A cover of a Hindi number composed by Salim - Sulaiman for the film Luck (2009)
Lyrics by Shabbir Ahmed
Srikanth Srinivasan on the keys
John Praveen on guitars and bass 
Navneeth Balachanderan on the mixing console

Created & posted in March 2012

Khudaya Ve (Cover) - Vandanam feat. Srikanth Srinivasan & John Praveen

Jesper Kyd - Ezios family

A cover of a Kannada number composed by Manikanth Kadri for the film Savvari (2009)
Acoustic guitars & programming - Bob Phukan
Recorded at Aura Studios (Proprietor - Girinandh Vidyshankar)
Bob Phukan on the mixing console

Created & posted in May 2012

Marali Mareyagi  - Vandana Srinivasan & Bob Phukan

Rg Jam

Please enjoy these official :90 clips from the THE DARK KNIGHT RISES soundtrack - I will be sharing more here as we near the release on July 17!  

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or itunes here: http://smarturl.it/TDKR

Death By Exile

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Hosanna - (Instrumental Cover)

A little cover I did for Dash Berlin's Disarm Yourself

Disarm Yourself (Clinton N Cover)

IKTARA Reprise

Tak Dheen |Bombay Dreams|

Tumse hi mohit chauhan

Mogathirai Prelude feat. Phil Hartl and Quartet - PIZZA OST (2012)

'Vathapi Ganapathim' - Hamsadhwani

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

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

Here is a shorter version of a recent upload on Youtube from The Krimson Blend - In collaboration with Prithvi Chandrasekhar and Allwyn Jeyapaul. Beautiful percussion from Allwyn and amazing production, arrangement, mix and master (phew!) from Prithvi of Krimson Avenue Studios! 

This was originally composed by Shri Madan Mohan and the lyrics were penned by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan for the movie Anpadh (1961). Lata ji's rendition brings tears to my eyes every single time and this is an attempt at creating that kind of magic. 

Here is the link to the longer version on Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emf4_cS_QG0 and there's more where this came from. Happy listening! :)

Aap Ki Nazron - The Krimson Blend

Melt With You (Modern English Cover)

Version personnelle avec mon Virus Ti2 keyboard

Isolated System - Muse - World War Z theme

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

Raasaathi

Krish Ashok