Carnatic rock

[sruthi]

Recently I came across this video clip of a Carnatic rock performance. Is this a popular genre? Had never heard of it before.
http://youtu.be/K9sDBciSF9Y
They are singing a Thyagaraja kriti here!

[venkatakailasam]

you can also see Susheela Raman singing Sarasa sama ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJkdWcV ... FF37F8BB47

manasuloni ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhQnUnr ... FF37F8BB47

Maruthamalai ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NepFlPP ... FF37F8BB47

Nagumomo ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-WSP7J ... FF37F8BB47

and many more...

Susheela Raman is an acclaimed British Indian musician. Raman has released five albums since 2001 and was nominated for the 2006 BBC World Music Awards. Raman's debut album Salt Rain was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2001.( Wikipedia)

[vasanthakokilam]

Recently I came across this video clip of a Carnatic rock performance. Is this a popular genre? Had never heard of it before.
http://youtu.be/K9sDBciSF9Y They are singing a Thyagaraja kriti here!

i think we talked about Agam before briefly. I remember having some what of a listenable experience.

With this one I looked for any bright spots, in terms of quality of singing, poruththam (fit) during the transitions between the song and the rest, etc., but could not feel anything. It is so strange to hear the drummer play the same thing for Bantureethi... through out the song.

It is not easy but I do believe that it is possible to create a cohesive effort in that setting, but I did not hear it in this instance.

[rshankar]

One either loves her, or hates her...a third option could be to love to hate her, I suppose

[vasanthakokilam]

Ravi, the fourth option is also possible. Hate to admit one likes her as in closet rasikas/guilty pleasure
At least with her, though misappropriating the music is enormously jarring and troubling, she seems to be quite musical and has an instinct on how to arrange things so things fit together. We have not talked about her here in a while but she seems to be still kicking in that kind of genere and added more songs. She turned Marudamalai Mamaniye into a vocal jazz style
Someswara!

[venkatakailasam]

See viewpoint....

http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic. ... an#p178844

An interview at..

http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/music/ ... -interview

[Nick H]

I'm sort-of glad that she is still around and doing her thing, which is perhaps one of the better among the fusion "things," but I do recall the conversations in whatever-our-forum-was-called-then in which people said that they found her treatment of lyrics that are essentially religious to be unacceptable.

[harimau]

Had never heard of it before.

You seem to have led a charmed life!

What happened to break it?

[rshankar]

You seem to have led a charmed life!
What happened to break it?

Priceless...made my day (especially since, it is both a Monday and a rainy day here, and I am with Karen C on that)

[sruthi]

harimau, This is is first one from India that I have heard.
I have come across a few produced outside India,
e.g. this one: http://youtu.be/UrCH4rsV5J0 (perhaps this is carnatic jazz?)
venkatakailasam, thanx for the susheela raman links.

[arasi]

Hara Hara mahAdEv!
Rainy monday morning
And Harimau to liven it up!

Quite an antidote for all
Mishmash music, I concur...