More CDs...

[sunson]

I went to Planet M to buy some music and I found a 4-CD pack titled 'Radio Recitals' of M.S.Subbulakshmi! There are some wonderful collection of songs on these CDs. I also bought a U.Srinivas Pancharatna Kritis CD that I badly wanted. Sad that there are some very good Audio Cassettes that, unfortunately, I cannot use at this point since I have no

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[gerani1248]

VOO! I love the MS version to Bhavayami Gopalabalam. Very sweet.

DOOOOD. send me some mp3s! i finally got my Ipod, but I cant find any carnatic mp3s online. thanks!

[sunson]

Sure. Your email addy?

[gerani1248]

ardhanariswar@yahoo.com

or

rsp588@gmail.com

[deponti]

nice musical adventure to read about!

To me, MS doesn't stand for Microsoft. Her rendition of Swara Raaga Sudhaarasa is THE definitve one.

But I prefer listening to vocal renditions of the Pancharathna Krithis to instrumental ones, because of the flood of lyrics involved.

Good to see that your mandolin playing is coming along...hope to hear it soon, live...or in an audio clip on LJ at least...

[sunson]

True. Nothing beats Vocal music... just that I _had_ to buy this to make my U.Srinivas collection more perfect ;)

[sunson]

and you know... he has played it really slow.

[rfc9000]

I prefer vocal over instrumental any day, with the exception of U Srinivas!

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[fiery_fiona]

I went to Planet M to buy some music

How i was fantasising about that line on my blog for two weeks now..no, seriously!!! Not able to go only!

It has a 'feminine' name to it and has the letters i, d and r for sure
LOL...before i read the update!

May i know how you going about the mandolin thing? I mean you going by ragams , songs what? And what about the technique and all?

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[sunson]

songs, mostly. But not a lot. I play some filmi (carnatic based) songs that are my favourite (like this sweet and very simple song called "Uyirum Neeye" from the relatively unknown movie called "Pavithra"). I'm still a baby, you see... :D

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[sunson]

It has a 'feminine' name to it and has the letters i, d and r for sure
LOL...before i read the update!

Actually know what? Since I'm a left-hander I always used to write most alphabets ulta (like 'D' would be written like '(|' and tick marks were always left-right mirrored). So maybe its not all that bad that I thought the raga name had a 'd' and not a 'b' :P

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[fiery_fiona]

oh..then should ':P' be ':b' in your case?

gawd...am dying of laughter .. i was imagining ':B' for the sake of diplomacy when i realised we rarely bring our tongues sideways!!

on the previous comment..

You explore the technique yourself?

[amoghavarsha]

With all those cds you are listening to "Black eyed peas"?a

[sunson]

:D LOL.

That was pre-ripping the CDs... :)

[rudugudu]

I have Balamurali Krishna's Pancha Ratna Kritis and honest to goodness, I think they're the best collection of songs in one cassette.

Since you're talking about Raag Abhogi, you must pick up a vocal rendition of the same by Veena Sahasrabuddhe. From the little I know, I can say it's amazing.

Will borrow your music sometime .....

[sunson]

I'm confused now. Is Baageshri different from Abhogi? or is it like an alias? (like the 'hindustani bilawal' being called 'shankarabharanam' in the Carnatic world (not counting the 'mutations' that can occur when a given meme travels far from south into the north or vice versa)).