Madras Trip and the Discovery of Mandolin Shrinivas' "Sangeet Sartaj"

[sunson]

Madras, Nalla Madras: Besides all the associated 'high' of being in madras, talking so "fluently" in Tamil to something as trivial as a shop keeper, all the instinctual high that I get when I see Madisaar maamis all over the place... there is one thing that always happens to me when I'm in Madras. Long walks can uplift one's mood... doubly so if

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[hamdamn]

Yeah, Mylapore has that effect on people.Hey, you online? Would chat with you if you are! Yahoo:voodoed
MSN: hamsiniravi

[spacejunkk]

To be frank... I don't like Madras and usually avoid going there... so can't comment about the city!! I have gone around Mylapore... and in crowds, have seen people starring at me :O
Giri Trading Agency is on the same street where my mother's sister stays... Need to check out that place sometime... Been some 4 years I've been to Madras!

I saw U Shrinivas's Sangeet Sartaj cd (music today) 3 weeks ago at Alurkar Music house and thought its already part of the tracks I have... guess I missed it! Listening to the clip you've uploaded and trying to identify the raga!

[sunson]

It is only natural for folks who have no 'connection' with Madras to not like it. :)

It is not a 'beautiful' city, alright. To me, its the memories of having been born and brought up over there. Now the 'connection' shows more when I'm in a place that I cannot relate to all that well. Bangalore is Synthetic. Plastic. There just isn't a "character" that I can see. Madras has a character, something as beautiful as Kolkata's own "character". :)

I saw U Shrinivas's Sangeet Sartaj cd (music today) 3 weeks ago at Alurkar Music house and thought its already part of the tracks I have... guess I missed it! Listening to the clip you've uploaded and trying to identify the raga!Ah, if you have Raga Sangamam, then yes, its just that single track - enthamuddo that is already present

[fiveonehalf]

Bangalore is Synthetic. Plastic. There just isn't a "character" that I can see.
If you had lived in Bangalore like say, five or ten years ago, I am sure you would have found its distinct 'character'. But now its become very 'metropolitan' and the localites are not so dominant.

[sunson]

Agree. Maybe its due to the simpler fact that some of one's best memories come from their childhood / adolescence period? :)

[gerani1248]

It definitly sounds like that... It first starts all happy, then turns kind of serious, then happy, then serious again, then mysterious, still mysterious, then serious again, then mysterious again, sorta happy and mysterious, ...

that probably didnt help. I like the mandolin, its very friendly and "cute" sounding.

[sunson]

:) "cute" is the word. No no, you don't necessarily have to 'help' me ;)

How easy it is to 'communicate' with Music, no? (how easy it is for someone like me who can hardly play a thing is a different question ;) ). But yeah, the fact remains. Music touches.

[anonymous]

> talking about the ragam that appears just after Kalyana Vasantham and before > Abheri.

Is it Nagaswarawali? There is a nice song "sreepathe.." in this rAgam. Sounds to me like Nagaswarawali.

Ramakrishnan
rkrishnan@debian.org

[sunson]

[raodyboy]

Reading about 'the effect a place has on you', I feel strangely sad that there doesn't seem to be any such place for me. I've grown up across 5-6 different cities and don't seem to have that one place which gets me all nostalgic, no one street that I like to just walk by myself and do whatever :( Lucky you!

[sunson]

Whenever you feel "at home" you never feel nostalgic, correct?

[raodyboy]

Thanks! Feel a lot better now :)