Saitejas Chandrashekar, Harmonica @Seshadripuram 26 apr 2014

[braindrain]

Harmonica : Saitejas Chandrashekar

Violin : J K Sridhar

Mrudangam : C Cheluvaraju

Ghatam : Sukanya Ramgopal

Song list:

01. valachi vAchi ( varNam) – navarAgamAlika – Patnam Subramanya Iyer

02. vAtApi gaNapatim – hamsadhwani – Dikshitar ( O,N,S )

neraval & swara @ ‘praNava swarUpa vakratuNDam’

03. enta muddO enta sogasO – bindumAlini – Thyagaraja ( O )

04. tatvameruga taramA – garuDa dhwani – Thyagaraja

05. akhilANDESwari rakshamAm – dwijAvanti – Dikshitar ( A,S )

06. raghuvamSa sudhAmbudhi – kadana kutUhalam – Patnam Subramanya Iyer ( O )

07. nannu viDachi – rItigauLa – Thyagaraja ( A,N,S,T )

08. jagadhOdhAraNa – kApi – Purandara Dasa ( O )

09. tandanAna Ahi tandanAna (brahmam okkaTE) – bauLi ? – Annamacharya

10. pibarE rAmarasam – Ahir bhairav ? – Sadashiva Brahmendra

11. abhang ( goD tujhE rUp ) – mAru behAg – Thukaram

12. kAyOu Sri gauri – Sankarabharanam scale – Basappa Sasthri

13. Western Notes – Muthaiah Bhagavathar

14. Wedding Bells – ? – Chittibabu

15. harivarAsanam – Ayyapa Bhajan

16. bhAgyAda lakshmi bAramma – madhyamavati – Purandara Dasa

I thought its important to bring this concert to the attention of rasikas. Saitejas has been performing for a few years now with this tiny instruments in his hand. He had been doing remarkably well, and yesterday's concert was no less. One usually admire the technical skills of handling such instruments and bringing out the nuances of carnatic music in such performances. However, what stood out here was his musical skill s and knowledge in addition to his ability to handle the instrument to precision. I was very impressed. There are a few youtube videos of this artist if anyone is keen to check on him. Hamsadhwani was awesome and reetigaula was sublime.

[varsha]

omg ! this is turning out to be a species by itself !!! harimaunium....harimaunica ...what could be next ?:)

[rshankar]

omg ! this is turning out to be a species by itself !!! harimaunium....harimaunica ...what could be next ?:)

Harimaunam perhaps?

[arasi]

Jayan,
Coming from you, I can see that the youngster is truly talented. It's also the easiest of instruments to pack and go!

Hope he will take up an instrument which has more scope for his abilities. Or, is it not necessary, the way he sounds? I wonder how difficult it was for Srinivas when he started playing the mandolin and in making CM listeners accept his playing a foreign stringed instument so tiny...