Two Reetigowla Numbers

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 [...]

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 [...]

Delightful Compositions in Sama

I’m posting music after a while, since I have been experimenting lesser. Following the news has become a chore, as with worrying about what’s next in the subcontinent given troubled times there.
I meant to play Sama for a while, as it is probably one of the ragas I was acquainted with early on. Two kritis [...]

Temporally Tardy Thirty Six

Over the last weekend, I got myself a Digitech RP50, which is a guitar effects processor. Essentially, it takes the sound produced by the electric guitar and does fancy things to it, in predictable (although sometimes unpredictable) ways. The model I own is not the best in the business, being a modest entry-level version by [...]

The Many Shades of Dharmavati

I have transitioned from making smaller, shorter pieces to somewhat more thorough explorations of various ragas over a three or four minute recording, sometimes more. The extended time target gives me an opportunity to record for six minutes or more (with editing to trim off the undesirable portions of the song), and in the process, [...]