Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna performs Ragam Gamanasrama in the Ragam Thanam Pallavi (Karnatic) style. This style allows musicians to improvise to a great extent. It is one of the most complete aspects of classical music. It incorporates raga alapana, or the improvised rendering of the Raga, Tanam, the rhythmic rendering of the notes of the raga, neraval, the mathematical elaboration of the notes, Kalpanaswara, the improvised combinations of the raga notes and tani Avartanam in which the percussionist is allowed to demonstrate his skills.
Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna is one of the towering figures in contemporary Karnatic Style (South Indian Classical) music. He is not only one of the most admired interpreters of the Karnatak classics, but also a respected composer in the traditional forms. The recording is from an out-of-print cassette on the Sangeetha label. It features several outstanding accompanists: A. Kanyakumari on violin, T.K. Murthy on mridangam and H.P. Ramachar on kanjira.The piece is a composition of Balamuralikrishna in the extended ragam-tanam-pallavi form, set in the ragam Gamanasrama and in the rarely-heard talam Raja Navamukhi.
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This brings back lot’s of long lost memories of my childhood listening to my fathers record collection. My father was an avid collector of ethnic music as long as I can remember, long before the world music hype.. He had a sweet spot for music from the balkan and improvised gypsy music, and if there was a concert, he took us there.
I can remember hearing the strange sounds, I must have been 8 or 9 years old. I was dreaming about how the musicians and lived in these far away countries inspired by the pictures on the record sleeves he albums, and the memories of these strange musicians I had seen in the concert with their weird instruments.
Ah! Folkways records. D. and I are still collecting. Indian classical music I love for sentimental reasons, and because I did a lot of work on classical aesthetics (rasa). And I took classical singing lessons in the Karnatic style to improve my torah cantillation and synagogal singing (hazanut)
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