Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy- LGJ- Rajamani(Mridhangam) PMI(Kanjeera)-Ragam-Ananda Bhairavi
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- K. V. Narayanaswamy- LGJ- Rajamani(Mridhangam) PMI(Kanjeera)-Ragam-Ananda Bhairavi (Note: Image shown does not correspond to this audio clip)
What an absolute gem!! A beautifully synchronized Anandabhairavi..the beats of the mridangam and lilt of the violin gell so well with the Vidwan's voice. It's like the Masters can make their instruments produce sounds that match Shri KVN's voice perfectly! And such a brilliant, brilliant Thani!!!!!!!!!! Words like Master and Vidwan don't do justice to them!
It was precisely a year ago I listened to this audio in Olympia, Washington, USA. Now I am in Post Falls, Idaho, USA relistening with compounded joy. It is good to remind the listeners that the man on the ganjira was none other than PMI with his son Sri Rajamani on the mridangam. Though PMI on ganjira had collaborated with Sri Pazhani on the mridangam a couple of times that is not the case here. Sri KVN in a mostly Malayalam Doordarshan interview told us that this kutcheri was a result of AIR's Narayana Menon who wanted PMI on a solo tour of London during the 1966 Commonwealth festival of music. PMI insisted on KVN-LGJ-Rajamani plus an ubiquitous mridangam tuner; the result was this video. From London Sri KVN proceeded to a two year teaching assignment initiated by the late Higgins Bhagavatar at the Wesleyan Univ in Connecticut, USA where he was joined by Palghat Sri Raghu. May this writer point out a onceinalifetime experience he had in the context of a KVN-Higgins accidental meeting on a New Jersey Speedway? It was 1984 and I was on my way to a Rutgers Univ kutcheri of Sri KVN in my puny 1977 choke-started Honda Civic(Since then the puny thing has taken a bigger and more of a sleeky shape as one of the best selling cars everywhere including the newly rich India). I noticed a stranded trio of KVN, MSAnanthanarayanan and Trichur 'Chittazhi' Narendran on the shoulders of the busy speedway called New Jersey Turnpike. As I was chatting with the fellow Malayali Narendran, who since has become a lifelong friend, with the ways of transporting the three men along with the bulky mridangam and tambura therein popped Sr Higgins in his huge Mercury Mark III. The Malayali Narendran chose to ride with me as we followed the speeding Mark III. As I volunteered to carry the mridangam myself I got in scot-free to the kurcheri on the front seat right next to the Bhagavatar. I listened with glee the brilliant Narendran accompaniment to 'Bhaktibichamiyyave' and to KVN's Tamil introduction of mridangam accompanying Saveri Tanam(tanathikku mridangathode tanam vasichirika vazhakkom Swati Tirunalude ...)as that night precisely was his annual pilgrimage to Trivandrum's Navaratri mandapom! Not too long after that delightful night it is with sadness that I point out the tragic and untimely demise of our dear Bhagavatar( his "Vazhi maraindirikkitu vazhi pole..." is one of the best if not the very best Natakuranji!!)as he was felled by a runaway truck driver as the Bhagavatar walked his dear dog near the Welsleyan campus. All I have are his memories in a dozen tapes I cherish to this very day. Pranams to his memory and to the memories of PMI, LGJ and KVN.
Narayanakurup Kanthikumar/Post Falls/Idaho/3.27.16
Kanthi Kumar if make a small correction , KVN ( and Raghu ) were brought to Wesleyan by Robert ( Bob ) Brown . Bob Brown was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in the mid fifties for a PhD program in Ethnomusicology for Classical Indian music
At that time it was not much known that there were two different systems of Sastrya Sangeetam and Bob Brown ended up in Madras . He spent several years and wrote his PhD thesis on the mridangam , with much help from T Ranganathan . At that time if I am not mistaken T Vishwanathan was the head of music Dept at Madras university . Much like later Higgins who was a PhD student of Bob Brown also came to Madras on a Fulbright Fellowship .
This was recorded by my mother in our house in London in 1965 when they were practicing. Mani Iyer had come for the Commonwealth and Edinburgh Festivals. He agreed to come only if he could stay with my father K V Ramakrishnan who was his very close friend. The picture is the concert at the Edinburgh Festival in Sept 1965 and the lady on the tampura is my mother Kamala Ramakrishnan, who took them to Edinburgh from London.
Thanks for the info!
Best rendition of song I’ve ever heard
Enchanted..transported completely. KVN's voice merges so wonderfully with the violin!! The essence of Ananda Bhairavi is so beautifully captured.
Reminds us of Ariyakudi
I first heard KVN (R.I.P., sir.) on an album "Carnatic Music odf South India"(?) which must have been made in the late 1960s or earlier, because several of us had that album by 1969 or 1970, which I have lost or had help losing it to "a friend." The 'A' side was maybe 5 or 6 different tracks, but the 'B' side was one long (1/2 hour?) track that was hypnotic. I have searched online for the album, CD/DVD or youtube but without success. Does anyone know where I can find that album again? I was reminded of Carnatic when I recently saw a 17-minute youtube video "Song of the Butterfly" recorded in 2014 in Hungary, featuring Istvan Sky and his vocals which reminded me of the voice control that must take decades to even begin to perfect. I have remained so impressed bby KVNs mastery of his voice that it made me want to hear that "B" side again and again. Help! And thank you in advance for any assistance in my quest.
www.discogs.com/KV-Narayanswamy-Carnatic-Music-Music-Of-South-India-The-Voice-Of-KV-Narayanswamy/release/3056142
or could be a nonesuch /world pacific record.
This song is Marivere Gati in Misra-Capu by Shyama Shastri
Thank you very much for posting this.
Nice thani avarthanam!
Thank you very much for sharing this :)
Brilliant KV!
It is always such a joy to listen to these three stalwarts. Then add Sri Rajamoni into this mix. What you get it pure music at its best. Absence of a female vocal support in those golden years makes this all the more pleasurable. Narayanakurup Kanthikumar
Olympia, Wa March 7, 2015
Such soulful music ! What else can you expect when these great stalverts are on the same platform ?
Being a musician myself my joy in listening and relistening to these concerts is unbounded.
Careful man. "Absence of a female vocal support in those golden years makes this all the more pleasurable" ??
How sexist is that???
Oh, please! He only meant that in his later years, KVN sang with Padma Narayanswamy as "pin pattu" and the difficulty of matching male/female sruthis somewhat distorted the musical output. This is without offense to PN or any other female singers. Of course, you would expect the me-too-ers to latch on to perfectly innocuous observations and thump their agenda! (; Amazing Anandha Bhairavi sung by a maestro at his best!
Purvi kalyani