Shek @ Velachery 5-1-15

[sureshvv]

Rapidly changing kaleidoscope of swaras in Saama now

More later.

[sureshvv]

Switches plan from singing Mara vairi to RTP in nasikabhushani & nakinakanti during violin return. Now a mixture alap

[sureshvv]

Amazing head spinning tanam

palayamam nasikabhushani ¦
rakshamaam nalinakanthi ¦¦

Khanda ekam

[harimau]

Amazing head spinning tanam

palayamam nasikabhushani ¦

The Pallavi line could have been:

Chinna Chinna mookkutthiyam
Chevappuk kallu mookkutthiyam .

[CHIGO]

Kaattrai kaiyil pidithavinillai, thootri thootri vazhnda vanillai would have made the Pallavi lines more appropriate. :

[sureshvv]

If you want to show a blind man what a kaleidoscope is, take him to a Abhishek concert

It was the most amazing pallavi with seemingly impossible rapid change of hues.

After the mixture alapana, Shek said something like this:

If f and g were two raga functions, what I attempted now may be termed f composite g

He was absolutely serious. I think only Mysore Srikant understood

[CRama]

suresh, have you decided to follow harimau

[sureshvv]

Not sure how you mean. I sure hope not.

[CRama]

It is Harimau's prerogative to address him as Sheik. I request you don't shake his name.

[CRama]

Name apart, he is great no doubt. I remember having heard this pallavi Nasikabhooshani-Nalinakanthi some years back. May be in Pallavi durbar. Wish to hear it again. if it comes in you tube fine. Pl provide the full song list.

[sureshvv]

I was referring to him as (Abhi)Shek. No disrespect intended.

Song list
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1. Inta modi (varnam), Saranga
2. Sahana, Vandanamu
3. Kannada bangala (alap without violin return), Renukadevi samrakshitoham, swaras @ manikka bhushani
4. Suddha danyasi, Sri parthasarathina
5. Sama, Smarahari padaravindam upanisam, adi, ST, s @ paramapurusha
6. RTP
7. Hariguna gaavat nachoongi, dipali

Ramkumar tweets that it was the best concert of the season for him. #2, #3, #5 and #6 were top class with so many "wow" moments. Voice showed a little bit of strain from the season but did not affect his form in any way. The way he slices and dices and combines sangatis and swaras was mind boggling.

[VRV]

If f and g were two raga functions, what I attempted now may be termed f composite g

In mathematics, function composition is the pointwise application of one function to the result of another to produce a third function. So given that Abhishek has a degree in mathematics (I presume), he meant that the way he sung the two ragams could very easily have generated a third ragam withinin the definition of ragam composition.

VRV

[rshankar]

I was referring to him as (Abhi)Shek. No disrespect intended.

Suresh, even if you used 'Shek' to pun on the fact that he 'shakes' one's assumptions with his brilliance, or that he is indeed the Sheik (a sAmrAT by another name) being head and shoulders [*] above many others, you would not be disrespectful in anyway, IMO - au contraire!

* - and before the peanut gallery chimes in, yes, he may also keep dandruff at bay!