Music

Dr Funkenstein

Any specific CD in mind, Nick?

I also got 'Sitar Concertos and Other Works' from the library (Great CD collection in Penzance library!) and I like that a lot. I tend to prefer the ragas without a full orchestra as backing. Sitar, tablas, flute, maybe a bit of violin.

Can anyone recommend me another CD to get?

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machadinha

That's great Ramalaka but there are existing threads about Indian pop music (probably about classical too), the OP at Fun Indian Dance Music would probably love to hear from you. The OP here asked about religious music and then someone chimed in asking about traditional Gujarati music. It's true though that the boundaries are not always so clear which makes for so much more of a vibrant scene, the list is probably endless. Thank god -- or, ehm, someone. I mean I wish more of our church organists got to boogie every now and then

ps Hussain was brought up on Carnatic music it seems, it's just not the style I would immediately associate him with. He's played with carnatic master Kunnakkudi Vaidyanathan on the album *Colours* at least which is more of a modern fusion kind of affair, really great though.

I just played the Gujarat tape again, I don't listen to it a lot as like I said it's um well something different, and of course the "flutes" I mentioned are the typical Indian pipes as seen on the cover picture, I'm not sure what they're called.

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ramalaka

I will be more circumspect in the future when posting.

artwallah

Last month in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, I heard incredible chanting every morning at dawn coming from the biggest temple in town. It was obviously recorded (same every day) and it sounded like a small chorus of women singing in unison, with no musical instruments. I would love to find what it is and get it, but I doubt that its possible to do so. I too have had trouble finding music that I've heard being broadcast from temples. In Mahaballipuram we were walking past the shops by the main temple there and I heard some music I liked coming from a stall selling religious items and other stuff and bought it from the guy there (I assume he had a replacement), so the best thing is probably to ask while you can hear it being played.
In Thanjore, we heard chanting again being played over the speakers and this time the refrain, endlessly repeated, sounded just like "Heighdy Heighdy Hody". Couldn't get it out of my mind for weeks!

On a different note, Nimbus, a British recording company now defunct, alas, published a great great series of classical discs, pretty much all No. Indian music. Ravi Shankar didn't record for them, but my personal favorite guy the flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia made an astounding recording of Rag Lalit that opened wide the door to Indian music for me. Nimbus also published a wonderful guide to the Ragas, with good, easy to understand explanations of how all that works. It included a CD of examples, I think. I don't know if it is still available but a google search might find it.

Digital Drifter

I think you most likely heard
Venkatesa Suprabhatam- M.S (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.S._Subbulakshmi)

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...amam& spell=1 in the first case

you WILL be able to get the cassette/CD anywhere in an Indian shop anywhere in the World.

In Tanjore, if you had been to a shaivite temple, maybe you heard
'Rudram'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri_Rudram

Again, you should be able to get a CD of this. I do seem to recollect having them at home.

http://www.koelmusic.com/rudcdbookcom.html is one place ot check to see whether you want to buy them( No, i don't know anything about it, it's the first hit on google)

But I'd suggest you listen to them before plonking money down to buy them.

Nick-H

A classical sitar concert/CD will be sitar and tabla only. Anything else is contemporary or fusion stuff.

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hanu-man

I just played the Gujarat tape again, I don't listen to it a lot as like I said it's um well something different, and of course the "flutes" I mentioned are the typical Indian pipes as seen on the cover picture, I'm not sure what they're called.[/quote]

Thanks for the cover! now i just have to find the gujarati font on my p.c. though the music wasn,t being made in temples it did sound fairly devotional to me. I guess the whole of Indian music is a big topic-thats the first thats really grabbed me though. maybe have to look up the rough guide.

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Ikuru

I think I Know what your looking for... Her name is Anuadha Paudwal... And the two "hit" songs (theyre more like mantras or chants) are He Ram He Ram Dhun and Ohm Nama Shiva, this reccordings are beyond anything Ive heard in India and full ON Powerfull stuff! Going on and on and with some violin in it that takes you to unearthy corners of the mind.

You will hardly find them in Finland but its fairly easy in India and maybe on the net too.
This is what she looks like and what the cover for He ram He ram Dhun looks like.

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artwallah

Wow, Ikuru! That's the record I bought in Mahaballipuram near the temple! Its great, but I was surprised to find that it was basically the same thing repeated for over an hour. Still, I listen to it a lot and am glad to know her name!

usha

Well Nick in classical termnalogy u r right. Bhajans are light devotional songs and Kerratanams part of classical repertoire. But in kerala in local lingo we do call devotional songs as keertanams ( or bhajana pattu). The pure carnatic, most of the Kritis are based on worshiping some gods, may be that is why it is called keertanams. Anything which contains the words to worship god \ expalain about god's good deed etc can be called keertanams. .
Not necessary all Kritis are Keertanams.
cheers
ush

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Ikuru

Good stuff! Its supposed to be repetative, its a chanting reccord.

Nick-H

Thanks for explaining the local usage
Keertana = simpler form of kriti, as I understand it.

<Just noticed my mispelling; allmost a year late!>

Lotus-Flower

yes Indiafun i can help u!!! theres a lot of nice Bhajan and Kirtan music like the one u r searching!!
Also if u r close to some ISKCON hare krishna temple go there in the morning u would hear a lot of good music!!

heres one site where u can find something its really nice! http://www.spiritualcity.org/free_downloads.html


scroll down and click the BHAJA HU RE MANA that i like the most
but also u can listen the otherst and download them!!

U can go on " chant and be happy.com" that is also nice site!

bye

mmike56

No body's mentioned these 2 beautys ?

V.M. Bhatt & Ry Cooder - A Meeting By The River

Debashish Bhattacharya & Bob Brozman - Mahima

Peace

mm

crvlvr

good point. different parts of india play different music and it depends on the deity of the temple too. If you donlt know start with the suprabatham