Dear Rasika, The wonderful thing about Ragas in the Indian Classical music system is that they are unique, and each one of them have something that is typically only associated with them, that which is irreplaceable. It is easy to fool an average listener in a little game of "Identify the raga" in a post-dinner Carnatic music party, and chuckle as he identifies a Sri raga as a Madhyamavati or a Pharas as a Mayamalavagowla..but how many of us self-confessed aficionados of this great system really have a fool-proof method of unambiguously identifying, each time, every time, the raga correctly? I doubt very many of us do, and this includes the smug critic or the know-it-all mama-mami duo next door. Lets face it - there are many factors that go into identifying a raga - the musical intelligence of the person who is playing or singing in the specimen recording, the level of sophistication of the music system, the extent of deafness of the listener or the lack of it, peer pressur...
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ReplyDeletenice mass song and u r voice just blends in too well with this...figured the original was rendered by urself & karthik...great going charu!!
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ReplyDeletehow r u doing? heard Chillax for the first time yesterday at the theaters, and i realized it was ur voice! job well-done!! u've shown ur musical range here with Carnatic, to kuththu, to a tinge of western as well. keep up the good work:)!
Vijay Nagarajan