Sikkil Gurucharan @ KGS, 28/Dec/2011

[sankark]

Sikkil Gurucharan - Vocal
Mysore Manjunath - Violin
Umayalpuram K Sivaraman - Mridangam
B Sundarkumar - Khanjira

vanajAkshirO (Varnam) - kalyAni - Adi - Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar. He sang it like 1/2 avartana in first speed, 1/4 avartana in second speed and 1/4 avartana in third speed for the pallavi/anupallavi/mukthaiswaram.
gAnamUrthE - gAnamUrthi - Adi - T (S)
alakallala - madyamAvathi - Adi - T (brief raga sketch, N@munikanu saiga thelisi)
ardhanArIswaram - kumudakriyA - rUpakam - D (RS@AgamAdi sannutam)
nI pAdamulE gatiyani - navarasakannada - Adi - Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar
chakkani - karaharapriyA - Adi - T (RN@kantiki). Had to leave when he started neraval. By my count he had sung 12 - 15 sangatis for the pallavi and beautiful percussion support, it was just so much variety including pregnant pauses. Wow After a while it got boring - mebbe ability to identify swaras will help appreciating the beauty of each sangati

Good in parts. Thought 3rd time this season will be lucky and I was lucky in parts - #4 & #5 are new to me. Have never heard kumudakriya elaborated before and I was pegging it as a pantuvarlish raga and seems it indeed is panchama varjya pantuvarali

The concert started a good 15 mins late even though all the artistes had arrived atleast 15 min before 4:30 and there was no other concert going on. Most of the 15 mins was on mridangam tuning/setup though from what I could observe.

[thathwamasi]

Im aware of copyright issues and posting recordings of current artists etc. but I couldn't resist posting this one. Ofcourse, Im encouraged to post this clipping because one of the artists involved in this concert has posted it in youtube.

I am sure that this is from the concert reviewed here. Excerpts from thani avarthanam of this concert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9VJqQ-m ... xdDIIxpSJU

I am simply amazed at the ease with which Shri. B. Sreesunderkumar has played, the kanda nadai, the korappu and how he improvised during the korvai. Absolute treat to watch and hear.

Regards
T

[vasanthakokilam]

Indeed. Thanks thathwamasi. That is a nice camera angle too. Having an upapakkavadhyam pays big time in the kuraippu which is always so dynamic and exciting.

[padavarnam]

Sundarkumar, Amrit, Guru Prassanna, Anirudh, K.V.Gopalakrishnan and Purushothaman have all increased the standards of Khanjira playing thanks to the impact created by the great Harishankar.