Ashwath Narayanan, Musiri Chamber, 26/Nov/2017

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Couldn't make it to MA for Sikkil Gurucharan & Gayathri Venkataraghavan. Though certainly should catch RVedavalli tomorrow morning, fingers crossed!

Catching up this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnaJx2u9wbE

with RKSK, KAP & AA (Anirudh Atreya)

bhairavi ata tALa varNam
vinAyakuni valanu brOvavE s@thyAgarAja
sArangA nIvAda nE gAna s@pallavi. not a ragam that i much like but surprisingly i liked the ragam exposition. the kriti anyway doesn't appeal much to me.

so far sooo good..

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thiruvadi charaNam ns@aduthu vandha ennaith thaLLalAgAdhu. after a while the s was dragging. proportion, proportion, proportion is key, a la location location location in real estate. or you need to be a MLV or MMI.
nIrajAkshi kAmAkshi with a chittaiswaram. class! those that pan KAP should listen to the contrast he brings to the kriti and the chittaiswaram. he simply seems to have different sensibilities. BTW, he is doing a lecdem on accompanying MD songs on Sunday 24th morning in RS hall
ikanaina nA ha. hear KAP opening his account there!

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And just kanjira for ap. KAP left it alone to AA who is lifting it high, saraLam. s@pallavi
dEvagAndhAri sketch nA moralAkimpavEmo

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query - i mistook it as surati based on the opening phrase of dEvagAndhari. listened couple of times too. is that possible?

thOdi

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tAnam, switches to even higher gear around 1h 49m mark! pallavi harE rAma gOvinda murArE mukunda shaurE murahara. k triputai 2 kalai. tani.
a single rAgam RTP in quite a long time.

rest after a break!

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alivEni enthu cheyvu
shlOkam vandE mukundam aravinda daLAyatAksham in kApi followed by jagadOdhAraNa
thillAnA ni ri ni ri ga ma ga ri sA pUrvi?
rAma nAma bhajarE in madyamAvathi

v v good