Global Music Fusion

Check this awesome vidoe by Dr.L.Subramaniam performing Global Music Fusion with different Musicians from all parts of the Globe.Among his pioneering efforts are Reflections (Subramaniam prefers to call it Global Fusion), a symphony which combines various elements, traditions and instruments, including some rare ones, from different parts of the world.I could see almost all indian and some of the westren instruments....you can also see Siva Mani perfoming the percussions.

Such a nice orchestra ,medley of indian and westren.Do check it.

Melakartha Chart-II

The Melakarta Ragams The Melakarta Ragams are the 72 basic Janaka (parent) ragams for all of the infinite others in Carnatic Music. All of these ragams are saptaswaras, that is that they have all seven notes - Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Da, Ne, and Sa. The system is divided into two sets of 36 ragams - one set with the first Ma and the second Ma. This is very similar to the Western concept of scales and the circle of flats.

source:- carnatic

Remember "Shakti"

Remember Shakti is a quintet which combines elements of traditional Indian music with elements of jazz. The band consists of English guitarist John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain (tabla), U. Srinivas (mandolin), Shankar Mahadevan (vocals), and V. Selvaganesh (kanjira, ghatam, mridangam), who are all of Indian descent. The band's name is derived from John Mclaughlin's acoustic Indian fusion band Shakti which was active in the 1970s. This band consisted of John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, L. Shankar, T.H. "Vikku" Vinayakram, and R. Raghavan. The word "Shakti" translates in Sanskrit to "female creative power" or "goddess."
More details about shakti can be found here.

These are few of my favourite shakti concerts,of which i am very big fan of Mandolin srinivas mellifluous flow of swaras.I attended one of their concerts in bangalore in which i had a chance to listen to the below songs.

Girirajasutha(tyagaraaja sankeethana) :- listen to the swarakalpana played by srinivas its awesome in the higher notes.



Sunarii Sakhi (Hindustan) :-

బాపు గారి బొమ్మల వీడియో

యూ టుబ్లో వెతుకుతుండగా నాకు ఈ లింకు దొరికింది..బాపు గారి బొమ్మలని వీడియో తీసి పెట్టారు..అన్ని బోమ్మలు ఉన్నాయి నాకు తెల్సినంత వరకు...మీరు చూడండి. చాలా బావుంది.