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Myself Murali Ramanathan,a great music lover. This blog will contain Malayalam,Tamil,Hindi film songs as well as classical music and Bhajans.I hope to hear back from all of you to improve myself. Happy Music Time!..

 

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Raaga Bhaavam - Sindhubhairavi



I have always been captured by stupefaction looking at the limitless possibilities of expressing myself, through my music. Our traditional Carnatic Music has really amazing capabilities of bringing in as many varieties or as many ‘shaili’s as there are number of musicians!! So to say, each and every artiste has her/his own different style which emerges out of their inner soul that merges seamlessly with their recital.
Manodharmam is such a beautiful and distinguished unique aspect of classical music. I cannot express my state of mind, as an unheard new ‘sangathi’ flows out of my heart to my throat as I am improvising the manodharmam in a concert! As though, the omnipresent one has chiselled it from a portion of my heart, prompting me to present it to the world. That is where we fail to recognise the boundary where music blends into the power, the power which moves the world; where does it start, where does it end? Can anyone separate the two and tell the world what is what? I thank with all my heart, my God, who has blessed me with Himself, with music...I thank from the bottom of my heart, my Guru, late Mr. Shri Vaikom Gopalakrishnan who made me realise the vastness of Carnatic Music.

With blessings from each one of my Gurus and all who have always supported me, I would like to start an endeavour to bring out each raga the way each one of them have touched me and left their mark on me...I would rather call this as “Raaga Bhaavam”..This time it is Sindhubharavi in the form of aalaap initially which flows in to the famous Shloka “Shivam Shivakaram Shaantham Shivaathmaanam Shivothamam Shivamaarga Pranethaaram Pranathosmi Sadaashivam”. It is totally unplanned. It just happened....I have also sung the krithi “Gangaadheeshwaram...” towards the end.
Your feedbacks are very important for me. That is how I have improved along my way..

Song 42
Raga : Sindhubhairavi
Label : Raaga Bhaavam
Sung By : Murali Ramanathan
Recorded and Mixed by : Murali Ramanathan

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posted by Murali Ramanathan @ 4:27 PM  

13 Comments:

  • At 3:59 AM, March 21, 2009, Blogger vava said…

    Hi .... Amazing and wonderful ... God bless you .... Good luck to u ..

     

  • At 4:01 AM, March 21, 2009, Blogger Meera Manohar said…

    Murali,

    Very divine voice, and very beautifully rendered. Impromptu actually brings out each artists creativity much better, since there're no boundaries already set in our head :-)

    Very glad to have heard this, Murali. Your voice touches the very soul, and I am sure Sindhu Bhairavi is what will be there with me for quite sometime to come!

     

  • At 9:46 AM, March 21, 2009, Blogger Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam said…

    Thank you Murali, for bringing in a breath of fresh air into the blog world. We should all be inspired by this and not confine ourselves to same old karaoke singing.
    Please sing more Carnatic.
    Brilliant singing as always. I love Sindhubhairavi and you've done a fabulous job. Quite rare to find an elaboration of a "light" raga like this. I like the idea that you chose to elaborate on this, of all ragas- always like it when people defy conventions.
    You sound divine. Loved the phrase at -18:40 and around -15:13 when u seamlessly bring in both the madhyamams (took me a while to figure out what swaras they were! isn't it in fact a madhyamam in between m1 and m2?! beautiful :) )
    I am not qualified to comment on your Carnatic singing, but just a few humble suggestions- given a 20 minute aalaapanai, I feel there was scope for more variations. Beginning sounds a little repetitive.
    Also, more "aa"kaara would have sounded even better than "rakaara" and "na..na na" or "ta ra ra" frequently- that might give a better sense of flow.
    Finally, as far as I observed, you have not used the dha2 (as opposed to dha1) except at a couple of places (sorry if I missed it)- u could use it more liberally. Sindhubhairavi as you may know is the only raga that makes use of all 12 swarasthaanams, so gives one the maximum freedom to explore.
    Overall, just brilliant. Congrats and looking forward to more in your series of "Raaga Bhavam"! My personal request to you to do more "light" (although am opposed to that term) ragas like this one rather than the traditional Kalyani/ Kambodhi etc.
    Sorry for the rather long comment!

     

  • At 12:14 PM, March 21, 2009, Blogger Venugopalan CV said…

    Beautiful. Really enjoyed listening to it.

     

  • At 4:19 PM, March 21, 2009, Anonymous Sreeja said…

    Its really nice to hear that u r exploring new areas of music .. ???U are gifted with a unique and soothing voice and let god shower all his blessings upon you to do more..gr8 going..All My Best Wishes and Prayers always with you...

     

  • At 4:14 PM, March 23, 2009, Blogger S. Krishnamoorthy said…

    Wonderful.
    Really soothing and enchanting.
    I would like hear more alaps in popular ragas like Kalyani, Kambodhi, Kanada, Sahana etc.
    Best wishes
    S. Krishnamoorthy

     

  • At 4:14 AM, March 27, 2009, Blogger Vidyu said…

    nannayittunde ..valare ishtapettu. You have an awesome voice Murali! God Bless u! :-)

     

  • At 3:25 AM, March 29, 2009, Blogger Vignesh Subramanian said…

    Murali.. Very Fortunate to have landed at your blog.. listening to your rendering gave a very serene sense of feel.. The element of surprise was to have traversed to the prathi madhyamam towards the end of the Aalabanai as well as on "Prenetharam", bringing in a tinge of Subha Banthuvarali in the descent.. Brought back memories of "Hari murali ravam". Please continue your good work ..
    With Love
    Vicky
    PS: Your interpretation of "Mano dharmam" is nice for dummies like me..made it sound a lot less abstract.. Thanks.

     

  • At 11:25 AM, April 01, 2009, Blogger Murali Ramanathan said…

    vava -> Thanks a lot.
    Meera - Nice to know that you haev enjoyed it.
    Sindhu - I really appreciate you for taking time and listening to it and giving me feedback in detail. Its really helpful. I agree with you that there could have been more variations.
    Venu sir - thanks a lot
    sreeja - thanks
    Krishnamoorthy - Thanks..I will try out yor suggestions as well.
    Vidyu - Thanks :-)
    Vignesh - Thanks for your feedback.

     

  • At 9:02 AM, April 04, 2009, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Murali, I am so glad I looked up on raga SindhuBhairavi and landed on your blog. I never heard this raga before.You truly have been blessed with beautiful voice.
    God and your Guru are looking down upon you, they will always be with you.
    I enjoyed listening to raga Sindhubhairavi.
    Thanks
    Avinash

     

  • At 10:52 AM, April 08, 2009, Anonymous krishna S said…

    Unbelievable perfection. Great effort to deliver the complicated music notations for the benefit of aspiring people. Indeed a great effort. I really enjoyed the posts. sure..its an asset for posterity.

     

  • At 9:02 PM, July 04, 2009, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Murali..

    Where are you. After ISS, what are you doing. We fans wish to track you
    venkat
    nvenkatfca@gmail.com
    chennai

     

  • At 12:21 AM, March 02, 2010, Blogger suma said…

    You have a great voice Murali, really touches the soul.
    God Bless you

     

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