The Kalyani in Pink Floyd
I am listening to 'Cluster One' (The division Bell) by Pink Floyd for the first time thus far. It was amazingly feeling like some sort of a Carnatic Fusion album to me. I've not heard much Pink Floyd except the 'Animals' and 'Dark side of the Moon' album (and that was all because I liked the 'psychedellic' sounds and the 'patterns' in them)
Coming back to 'Cluster One'... The song starts with a bit of psychedellic sounds (like that of how it sounds when you are sitting next to a bon-fire on a windy day with 'amplified' ears :) ). Then a 'shruthi' sets in. The very first notes thats played are like 'Ni Sa'... 'Ni Ri Ga' (of course all 'flat' without ghamakkams). The important thing to note is that all the phrases used here are common phrases seen in pure "Agmark" Kalyani in Carnatic.
Then some sort of a 'sliding' is done on the guitar with 'ghamakkams' (Not according to the rules of the Carnatic Kalyani, but nevertheless it sounds good) with some cool use of active feedback. After about a minute of playing with the 'poorvangam' of Kalyani there is a lot of 'pa' 'pa ma', etc.,. and then the percussion starts. (now the 'Ma' of kalyani is no longer seen and instead 'shuddha ma' is seen and finally when the song ends the 'prathi ma' is again 'touched' occasionally).
This piece is very nice and words cannot do justice to try and explain how it works. :)
... and when I thought its over, there is another song called "Coming back to life" which seems like another "continuation" of the same! (so I'm guessing the 'coming back to life' is like the 'coming down from the trip' :) ) (from whatever I'm hearing now I no longer see the "higher Ma" of Kalyani) (so my interpretation is that they look at 'Prathi Ma' as the 'high' and the 'Shudhdha Ma' as the 'clear headed' Ma. ah well, I'm probably interpreting^W farting generously).
Coming back to 'Cluster One'... The song starts with a bit of psychedellic sounds (like that of how it sounds when you are sitting next to a bon-fire on a windy day with 'amplified' ears :) ). Then a 'shruthi' sets in. The very first notes thats played are like 'Ni Sa'... 'Ni Ri Ga' (of course all 'flat' without ghamakkams). The important thing to note is that all the phrases used here are common phrases seen in pure "Agmark" Kalyani in Carnatic.
Then some sort of a 'sliding' is done on the guitar with 'ghamakkams' (Not according to the rules of the Carnatic Kalyani, but nevertheless it sounds good) with some cool use of active feedback. After about a minute of playing with the 'poorvangam' of Kalyani there is a lot of 'pa' 'pa ma', etc.,. and then the percussion starts. (now the 'Ma' of kalyani is no longer seen and instead 'shuddha ma' is seen and finally when the song ends the 'prathi ma' is again 'touched' occasionally).
This piece is very nice and words cannot do justice to try and explain how it works. :)
... and when I thought its over, there is another song called "Coming back to life" which seems like another "continuation" of the same! (so I'm guessing the 'coming back to life' is like the 'coming down from the trip' :) ) (from whatever I'm hearing now I no longer see the "higher Ma" of Kalyani) (so my interpretation is that they look at 'Prathi Ma' as the 'high' and the 'Shudhdha Ma' as the 'clear headed' Ma. ah well, I'm probably interpreting^W farting generously).