Chennai-based Carnatic violinist, composer, and guru Vasantha Kannan recently released a thillana in the rare raga Kadyutha Ganthi. A video of the composition had her daughter Calcutta K. Srividya ...
Music composer, artist, app developer and tech enthusiast Mahesh Raghvan who has won million hearts by garnishing popular English songs with a twisty blend of classical Carnatic topping, was seen here ...
This week I am at the Esplanade concert halls in Singapore for the annual music festival, where several world artistes are presenting their interpretations of Indian music. Many of these acts take ...
Steering away from commercial music, this band is all set to begin their first show with their own composition — Thadheem! City Express identifies a band, which comprises of a good mix of both school ...
An authoritative voice, brightened by the cues of great art, sang briefly over the telephone to explicate the interplay of the note “ni”. The fleeting rendition afforded a flash of lushness and ...
It is rehearsal day for a group of young Carnatic musicians. One expects to hear strains of the violin and ragas filling the air, but instead there are peals of laughter as three of the four musicians ...
On the sixth day of Margazhi, sweet notes of a melody exploring the shankarabharanam raagam drifted out from Sathyanarayanan Krishnababu’s music studio in Chennai. Inside the room, Keyboard Sathya, as ...
Sanjay Divecha and Secret. The name itself hints at a clandestine world, one of sound and sensation. On this music project, Divecha is joined by a group of exceptionally talented musicians, each ...
A recent challenge on Twitter daring African Americans who say they invented rap to sing the Kalinga Narthanam Thillana (in Ragam Gambheera Nattai) may have led to many people taking a relook at some ...
"I have never heard this song before,” an elderly audience member told me right after my recent concert in Bengaluru. The song he was referring to was Athi Saavadana, composed by the 17th century ...
CHENNAI: Mirabai’s love for Krishna epitomised the concept of Bhakti; Andal’s Thiruppavai, a rendition dedicated to Lord Vishnu spoke volumes of her admiration for the creator; and Avvaiyar’s poetic ...
A recent challenge on Twitter daring African Americans who say they invented rap to sing the Kalinga Narthanam Thillana (in Ragam Gambheera Nattai) may have led to many people taking a relook at some ...