Difference between natuvangam singing and kunnukol singing

[ajaysimha]

Are both the same coz they majorly sing srokattuts
Plz could anybody help me differentiate among both

[Nick H]

I can tell (paraphrase at least) what I heard from a Konnakkol artist a couple of weeks ago... Natavangam is more composition-bound, konnokkol has plenty of room for improvisation.

I suppose... One is an accompaniment, the other a solo.

Apologies for probably using the wrong vowels!

[ajaysimha]

One more thing that I noticed was,
Natuvangam
Jathi's are sung plain/in a ragam set to a thalams
Usually simple thalam is used to comfort the dancer
Kunnukol
Jathi's are sung plain(in a textual way) also which is set to thalam
Complex thalams are also used

[Nick H]

The talam is the talam of the song/dance. It is fixed by the program. It is the spoken equivalent of what the dancer is doing and the complexity will be equivalent. Could be very complex.

[rshankar]

First off, aren’t the mnemonic syllables (sollu) recited and not sung, both in konnakoL and for naTTuvAngam? I’ve never heard a naTTuvanAr sing.

[Nick H]

Yes indeed. It would probably be called kalpana swara if it was sung.