RAJHESH VAIDHYA  - VEENA VOYAGE 03 - RAGHUVAMSA

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

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Thaye Yashoda - Morning Raaga remix

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An original background score composted by Hamad Majeed for The Script, a short film.
Vocals by Hamad Majeed & Vandana Srinivasan

Recorded & released in September 2011
Posted in October 2011

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Next up from my Beauty of Ragas album, Beauty of Kaanada. This is one of my favorite ragas and well I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed composing and recording it =)

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Vocal: Vinod Krishnan, Bushra Jabeen
Sarod: Souryadeep Bhattarcharyya
Music: Vinod Krishnan

https://www.facebook.com/vinodsmusic/videos/1566230636755671/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D01yE8lwZpw

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RAJHESH VAIDHYA - VEENA VOYAGE 03 - RAGHUVAMSA

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