I played a bit of Reetigowla and recorded two numbers, two of my favourites in Tamil film music. They’re in the sidebar. Check them out and comment!
If you want to access them outside of the sidebar, here are the links:
Rama Kadhai Kelungal (from an old Tamil movie starring Kamal Haasan)
Chinna Kannan Azhaikkiran (from another 1980s [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Carnatic’
November 4, 2009
Two Reetigowla Numbers
February 13, 2009
Srothaswini
The movie Chandramukhi (Tamil) has the dubious distinction of being an unoriginal movie which reproduced an older Malayalam movie called Manichithratazhu while it was preceeded by a Kannada adaptation of the latter Malayalam movie, Apthamitra. This in turn was copied unscrupulously by Bollywood and therefore formed part of a quartet of movies for each geographical [...]
February 8, 2009
Music On This Blog
This is a quick update. Because of the fact that upload-mp3.com suddenly and mysteriously reported that my login didn’t exist (!), I believe none of the media links on my blog are working. Essentially this means you won’t be able to listen to any of the recordings (mp3s) I have used inside each post. I [...]
February 2, 2009
Three Pentatonic Scales
Symmetric, pentatonic ragas are fun to play and experiment with, since most lend themselves to a great deal of experimentation. Maybe its just me, but my initial explorations of audava ragas was rather restricted. Although guided by some knowledge of the popular ones, I was (and still am) largely oblivious to most. The ones I have [...]
