Monday, March 31, 2008

ShEnkar + electronica


Few days ago, I was sent a piece called "open the door". I was told that I am great fan of the artist and I had to guess his/her name. I took a couple of days but still couldn't identify him/her. There was a tinge of tamilian accent along with american. I could pin point on the genre, being "techno/electronica".
After much effort, I finally was told that it was the violin maestro L Shankar's new album. You can check out his "new" but no so new music here on my space -
I was truly amazed and got a kick out of listening to his "Misery" track.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Cleveland - tyagaraja Festival ' 08

mar 26' 08

Cleveland Tyagaraja festival, is serious for carnatic musicians.  I got to see why this March of '08.Besides singing the pancharatna kritis, also known as the five gems of the composer tyagaraja, i gotto see and interact with great musicians such as sri. r.k srikantan, chitraveena ravikiran and sri. guruvayoor dorai. There were lecture demonstrations, kutcheri's and intense music competitions....read more...