Rang Puhar Carnatic Group - Music of Southern India (2007)
BAND/ARTIST: Rang Puhar Carnatic Group
- Title: Music of Southern India
- Year Of Release: 2007
- Label: ARC
- Genre: Indian Classical, Hindustani
- Quality: FLAC (tracks) & booklet
- Total Time: 1:06:07
- Total Size: 366 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
A fair album of Carnatic music, spanning the realm of song and dance forms well for a single disc. The focus in Music of Southern India is clearly on breadth, covering different forms and styles one after another. The Rang Puhar Carnatic Group is based around the able violin of Srinath Iyer and the mridangam playing of K.N. Venkiteswaran, along with vocals provided by Vrunda Shukla from time to time. The instrumentation is relatively standard for Carnatic music, though a bit sparse in feel at times. Rather oddly, the album begins with a traditional closing song in "Tillana [Raga Aarabhi]," before moving into a series of prayers and varnam compositions. As the album progresses, the energy rises bit by bit, culminating in an extended and outstanding workout on the mridangam by Venkiteswaran with some ten minutes of improvisation. The performance quality bounces up and down a bit throughout the album's course, but realistically Carnatic music is somewhat underrepresented in the Indian music realm (perhaps due to the extreme popularity of Hindustani figures like Ravi Shankar in the past) and the album makes a nice addition to the collection of a curious listener as a result.
01 - Tillana : Tillana
02 - Hum ko maan ki shakti dena (Give me Mental Strength)
03 - Varnam: Varnam
04 - Ganesh Sloka and Guru Vandana (Sloka Recitation and Teacher's Song)
05 - Keertanam, "Bhukhana Bhujanka" (The One Who Wears a Snake Around His Neck)
06 - Varnam
07 - Ae Mere Dil-e-nadan (Traditional Life)
08 - Keertanam, "Naru galla talli": Keertanam, "Naru galla talli"
09 - Tere Sur Aur Mere Geet (Your Music and My Words)
10 - Keertanam, "Vatapi"
11 - Keertanam, "Teichi Mandarom"
12 - Raghupati Raghara Rajaram (Devotional Song): Raghupati Raghara Rajaram (Devotional Song)
01 - Tillana : Tillana
02 - Hum ko maan ki shakti dena (Give me Mental Strength)
03 - Varnam: Varnam
04 - Ganesh Sloka and Guru Vandana (Sloka Recitation and Teacher's Song)
05 - Keertanam, "Bhukhana Bhujanka" (The One Who Wears a Snake Around His Neck)
06 - Varnam
07 - Ae Mere Dil-e-nadan (Traditional Life)
08 - Keertanam, "Naru galla talli": Keertanam, "Naru galla talli"
09 - Tere Sur Aur Mere Geet (Your Music and My Words)
10 - Keertanam, "Vatapi"
11 - Keertanam, "Teichi Mandarom"
12 - Raghupati Raghara Rajaram (Devotional Song): Raghupati Raghara Rajaram (Devotional Song)
Classical | World | Indian / भारतीय संगीत | FLAC / APE
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