Name: Enthamuddo- Bindumalini - Bedham by Manjusha Pisharody in Srinivas Collection
Duration: 3 min 9 s
Description: A part of U Srinivas' rendition of the song Enthamuddo from the album Sangeet Sartaj. Towards the end, he deviates from Bindumalini raga in which St. Thygaraja composed Enthamuddo and beautifully transitions to and blends in ragas like Nalinakanthi, Kalyanavasantham, Nagaswaraali, Abheri, and so on, and then returns to the beautiful Bindumalini.

Srinivas Collection

Ilayaraja's Music - A research by Dasarathi (Part 1)

Recorded with permission of performers by Richard K. Wolf in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, March 19, 1983.

"Kamakshi Amba," Svarajati in Bhairavi Raga, sung by Voleti Venkateswarulu

N. Ramani-flute
T. Rukmini-violin
Gurvayur Dorai-mridangam
Recorded with permission by Richard K. Wolf, March 9, 1985, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
Pallavi in Todi raga, Khanda jati jampa talam, arai idam. Ragamalika: Begada (break in recording), Ganamurthy, Brindavana Saranga, Bagesri.  Part of Richard Wolf collection at the Archive of World Music, Harvard University

N. Ramani, flute: Ragam-Tanam-Pallavi in Todi with ragamalika

Tribal and modern voices in south Indian Kota society will be published in Asian Ethnology, 2014.

Example 1: Sivan imitates sounds of penpacols

3 - Subramanis Oppari

A union between India's premier mandolin player and a renowned Canadian guitarist/producer, U Srinivas and Michael Brook's album 'Dream' (Real World Records) was constructed from recorded performances at Real World Studios.

U. Srinivas - Dream (Edit)

A part of U Srinivas' rendition of the song Enthamuddo from the album Sangeet Sartaj. Towards the end, he deviates from Bindumalini raga in which St. Thygaraja composed Enthamuddo and beautifully transitions to and blends in ragas like Nalinakanthi, Kalyanavasantham, Nagaswaraali, Abheri, and so on, and then returns to the beautiful Bindumalini.

Enthamuddo- Bindumalini - Bedham

Entha Muddo - Bindumalini - U Srinivas

This was a speech by my Revered Guru,  Sangeetha Kalanidhi Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan sir after a concert of Mandolin U.Srinivas.

Speech by Sangeetha Kalanidhi Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan sir after a concert of Mandolin U Srinivas.

Tamil song upon which Example 9: “Ayṇōr ninne kāṇāde neynje” is based. Tribal and modern voices in south Indian Kota society will be published in Asian Ethnology, 2014.

Example 10 Rasathi Unna

Oyilāṭṭakkummi: "Kuṇṭamalai mēl"
Singer: Kaṇṇiyappan
Home village: Paṭṭūr
Recorded by Richard K. Wolf
20 March 1983, Madurai, Tamil Nadu


Oyillaṭṭakummi

Musical examples for the book The Black Cow's Footprint: Time, Space and Music in the lives of the Kotas of South India, by Richard K. Wolf. Permanent Black 2005, University of Illinois Press 2006.

Enthamuddo- Bindumalini - Bedham

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