Fusion

Desolated Extended(Original Composition)

Singer: Haricharan; Keys: Navneeth Sundar; Recordist and Motivator: Shweta Mohan ;)
Hari, Shwe and I met at my studio a year ago and decided we'd jam something. Hari sang Pakkala Nilabadi composed by St Thyagaraja and I played the keys. Shwe was our audience cum recordist cum motivator. We had total fun that day. Audio captured on a single mic in addition to my keyboard's line.

Pakkala - Navneeth & Haricharan Jam


"The carnatification", a carnatic musical presentation on a electric guitar is what makes the album entirely different from the others in the market. The  carnatification is nothing but CARNATIC MODIFICATION . The album is filled with pure essence of carnatic music of highest order, comprising of high standard and popular krithis by the greats such as muthuswamy dikshidar, thyarajar, periyaswamy thooran , patnam Subramaniayam Iyer, madurai mani Iyer and purandaradasar. And as a highlight have my first composition too, a peppy ragamalika number. 
               
                   THE UNIQUENESS 

               The album is distinctly unique for the style of playing with double octaves , harmonies, and artificial harmonies and highly grooved swara sections which are completely new to the audience of carnatic. . I LL assure it to be a youth favorite because of the electric guitar factor and the recording quality and the brand names in the album.

              BIG SHOTS IN THE ALBUM

            THE CARNATIFICATION  has some real big names who are currently at the peak in the carnatic feild. I have been accompanied by my dad and percussion maestro Prapancham Ravindran on the mridangam , kanjira maestro B.S.Purushottam and hugely reputed DR.S. Karthick on the Ghatam. The 3 rhythm heroes have provided some brilliant grooves with the electric guitar , thus making it sound epic. 


Raghuvamsa Sudha

Navneeth Sundar, pianist and world's first iPad Carnatic musician and Ramakrishnan Lakshman, ace Carnatic violinist, jam for a few minutes, exploring the raga Yamuna Kalyani
Captured at Navneeth's studio "Living Room Studios, Chennai"

Rama & Navneeth jam YamunaKalyani - Violin, iPad, Piano

Swaminatha paripalaya(Chithram) -Violin by Padmaraj Payyur

This is the original recording of the song "Sajan Ke Pyar Mein" (2010), composed by Navneeth Sundar, written by Aarthi Santhanam and sung by Amruta Kale. Navneeth Sundar Ensemble band, performed this song LIVE, once again in 2014, for Music Mojo, Kappa TV, which was aired on television. 

Sajan Ke Pyaar Mein - Navneeth Sundar, Amruta Kale - Original Recording

Ramakrishnan Lakshman and Navneeth Sundar explore the ragam Kannada on the violin and kalimba respectively

Ragam Kannada - Ramakrishnan Violin - Navneeth Sundar Kalimba jam

Again all track are scratch as usual......great playing by my dear friend Nilanjan ghosh!!

Mahaganapathim full with Tabla (Feat.Nilanjan ghosh)

A 'Funk-Carnatic' live jammin by Mandolin Prakash & Nivas Prasanna.

Funkernatic (Live Jammin)

Voiceover for Budweiser by Prakash Hariharan.

BUDWEISER (VO)

Worldspace (ARR) - cover by Mandolin Prakash Live!

JOEL PORTER: MOUNTAIN TWIN EP
Written by: Joel Porter
Produced by: Eric Hillman
Mixed by: Joe Visciano
Mastered by: Chris Gehringer

www.joelportermusic.com

Mountain Twin

Sri U. Shrinivas ji playing Sri. Muthuswami Dikshitar's compostion, Swaminatha Paripalaya in the Raga Naata set to Adi talam.

Durmaargachara

Swaminatha Paripalaya - Raga Naata

A Carnatic fusion track.....Balaji Sivasubramanian a.k.a Lobo on the violin
Based on the song 'Nagumomu' in raag 'Abheri'.


Abheri CinCed

Check out my entry for the Furtados Dimapur, Acoustica online contest. Do like the post on the Furtados Facebook page link given below to give me a chance to win a lovely Guitar :) and a concert tour. Each like on the below post/thread counts as a VOTE! 

Please note, it is NOT the LIKE button on the top right corner of the page. Youtube LIKES also DO NOT count. Kindly VOTE on the post in the link at the place where your name comes in the list of LIKES.

https://www.facebook.com/furtadosdimapur/posts/224714670980639

Voting open till June 10th!

I've used a Nylon Guitar here with Indian tuning system and the improvisation phrases comprising styles of Carnatic, Blues & Jazz.

Thanks to P.C.Shivan & Natraj for all the help and support. :)

And to all of you for the Love and keep sharing :)

Furtados Dimapur Acoustica online entry "The Feeling" perfomed by Mandolin Prakash

I have played different styles of music from traditional carnatic to film-pop. However something that I've always leaned towards is to explore the idea of propping up our beautiful classical music against various genres like pop, rock, jazz etc. So here is a song from my outfit Karthick Iyer Live. We have played Thyagaraja's krithi Manavyala in the raga Nalinakanthi.

Do share! :) 

Covers music got a lively twist with the entrance of Karthick Iyer Live. Karthick Iyer who has played with bands and in festivals spanning almost all the continents in the world, has contemporized the existing format to suit the ever changing needs of the audiences. His concerts are known to touch every single person in the crowd, from old to new and from the laymen to the learned. He spices up his concerts with medleys of English, Tamil and Carnatic songs rolled into one. Dressed in a dazzling Moghul costume, holding a blue electric violin and armed with a compelling selection of Tamil, Hindi, English and Carnatic songs, Karthick is ready to cast a spell!

For wedding, corporate and other gig bookings please email karthickiyer.music@gmail.com

Musician Credits
Electric Violin - Karthick Iyer
Guitars - Akshay Chakrapani
Mridangam - Sumesh Narayanan
Percussion - Varun
Live Sound - Ramprasad

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Mobile Number: +91 77009 08966

Carnatic fusion music- Manavyalakim by Karthick Iyer Live

Nila Kaigirathu (ARR) - cover by Mandolin Prakash Live!

Alaipayuthe by Mandolin Prakash Live!

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Fusion

Navin R