V Shivapriya & BR Somashekar Jois | Konnakol Duet | MadRasana Unplugged
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- MadRasana Unplugged brings artist and the art form closer to the listeners of music. We begin Season 3 with the most traditional, classical & ancient vocal percussive art form of India; the mother of all percussive languages - Konnakkol.
In this video we present to you an exclusive ‘Konnakkol Duet’ by Vidwan B R Somashekar Jois and Kumari V Shivapriya. They will be reciting few exciting rhythmic phrases set to Mishrachaapu Tala followed by a special Mohara-Korvai composed by Vidwan B C Manjunath
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Artists - V Shivapriya and BR Somashekar Jois
Cinematography - Studio A
Mixing and Mastering - Ishit Kuberkar
Sound Design and Direction - Sean Roldan
Concept and Production - Mahesh Venkateswaran
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All the love to India from Colombia
Thank you so much for your kind words. Glad to see there is a larger relevance to this art form.
Otro colombiano por aquí que también ama el Konnakol. Es fascinante.
Hi, where can i find some sources and learn this? Thank you 🙏
a trick: watch movies on flixzone. Been using it for watching all kinds of movies recently.
@Otto Duke Yea, I've been watching on Flixzone for years myself :)
When it ended, I wanted to applaud. But clapping in 4/4 would have felt like an insult after that master class in rhythm!
I agree funny reference.
nice one
this shit is in 4/4 look at their hands
@@2Chillyd it's not, look closer. one clap is half as long as the other three.
"4/4"
As a drummer and a meshuggah fan, this is FUCKING AMAZING. The rhythm understanding required to do this cleanly is EXPERT. Not to mention the tongue speed.
@Leo "kinesen" är en tönt have you considered the possibility of you not getting it
@Leo "kinesen" är en tönt have you considered the fact that you might be unfamiliar with the culture and their art forms
lol yeah this could be jdent
Same over here. Aaaannnnnd..Agreed
This music up here isnt exactly my cup of tea but DAMN the timing is sick. Also a Meshuggah fan here lol
In case people are not noticing, she is actually maintaining two rythms (thaalam) on her two hands. Simply amazing coordination.
It’s not the whole time but yeah I noticed. To use western ideas, her left hand is a 7/8 pattern and her right hand is a 7/4 pattern, so after two of the left-hand patterns they sync up and it repeats. Which would take some practice to do BY ITSELF, let alone while doing the vocal pyrotechnics that, from what I can tell don’t follow any kind of 7-beat pattern and are just kind of their own thing.
@@mingnrich thank you for explaining that.
For her its likely something that is a count of 14 or 16 or something that would make most western musicians go: are you kidding me? I've read there's even beats that go much higher. So, its counting 1 to 14, not 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 like we're used to. And, then the emphasized beats are not every third or 1st or something. It might be 1st 2 3 4 5th 6 7th 8 9 10 or something that's ..... well .... its a whole new vocabulary.
Found this because of Andre Antunes, but experiencing this is such a privilege. Proud of my Indian culture.
Check out Artificial Fear cover.
Very underrated and much longer than AA.
Although I appreciate what Andre has done for Indian and Pakistani ethnic rhythms, in thie case Artificial Fear is the OG!❤😂
Same
What blows me away, just as much as the incredible skill, is that this rhythm structure is based on the Fibonacci sequence.
India had Fibonacci sequence in ancient times
*danny carrey intensifies*
BC Manjunath.
The drummer in my head is still trying to process this. This is unbelievable.
2:10 "Thee neck of da guitar"
Honestly I can't explain how this blows me away. The rhythm structure is far beyond what you usually hear in western styles, it's at God level, and I asume they are actually saying many things. The fact they're keeping 3 rhythms with their hands and singing that fast... Just leave me speechless every time. This is one of the most beautiful classical music I've ever heard
Thank you so much. Glad you liked it.
This is part of the classical music education in India. Many people think it's kind of ethnic, or exotic, or world music, but *for the Indians it's classical music :-)*
It's very nice that the we have a classical music of India, that is very different from the classical music of Europe. It's a good example for how interesting our world can be, if we allow it to be interesting.
I think it's really cool! I'm curious, do you know what they're saying/what this song is about?
Chris Rafinski i may be confusing this with another type of indian classical music, but syllables they’re saying are like rhythmic solfège. where the syllables do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti represent the degrees of the ionian scale, the syllables they’re saying represent different rhythmic pieces of the beat they’re saying
Teddy Filkin mmhmmm. That i can understand. But doesn't the middle section sound like they're actually saying something? It doesn't sound like rhythmic syllables all the way through.
I noticed that too Chris. It sounded like a departure from the Konnakkol language.
Chris Rafinski from 0.50 to 1.17 and 1.31 to 1.39 are short prayers from 2 different Indian languages. First one is paying respects to the ultimate Lord and second is for paying respects to the GURU or the master. Rest is all Konnokkol as you know. It’s amazing to see how they have put those hymns to rhythmic syllables.
I am a drummer who plays many genres, but I was trained as a jazz drummer by a teacher who also is proficient in Tablaa and Konnakol. He transcribed the Konnakol to the modern drum set, which was very hard to learn initially for how different it was. He never taught me the Konnakol, which I now regret because to me, I imagined it to feel like becoming one with any rhythm.
The little song she sings and recites while she recites Konakkol is a prayer to Lord Shiva, one of the most incredible dieties in the Hindu pantheon of Gods. The prayer praises Shiva as the source of all - the mother and father of all, the source of all goodness and greatness and fount of all that is holy. "Om Tryambakam yajaamahe sugandhim pushtivardhanam / Urvaarukamiva bandhanaan mrutyormuksiyamaa mrutaat".
Indian has been djenting since 3000BC.
2:46 destroys me every single time.
Exactly, only music players will get the complexity.
I rewind it so many times, my roommates must think I'm so weird.
Same feeling here bro
SAME! I was inspired from second 0:12 but this ~~~
For those that don't know what we are wowing about, those two just performed 9 evenly spaced beats in a 4-beat duration. A 4:9 polyrhythm, to be exact.
Just think about how you would evenly space the beats. Difficult, right?
This is one the most advanced thing I've heard.
It's so metal!
What I love SOO much about this music is that there are huge parallels with stuff like, technical "math rock" progressive metal, or even electronic music artists like Squarepusher that we think of as being "new" music, but really there was the same level of rythmic innovation in musical forms dating back thousands of years. Surely indian classical music is the most innovative music in terms of rythm, it's world class
I just heard the metal version and found this beauty!
What!!! I must find this!!
Ты не один 😉
@@buttergurls6401 just search Indian Metal - Konnakkol on CZcams.
Metal version was cool!
Check out Artificial Fear cover.
Very underrated and much longer than AA.
Although I appreciate what Andre has done for Indian and Pakistani ethnic rhythms, in thie case Artificial Fear is the OG!❤😂
1:30 Dude breaks out in old school rap.
♫Now, what you hear is not a test I'm rappin' to the beat
And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet♫
My dude goes from Kurtis Blow to Twista in less than 10 seconds though 😳 homegirl’s fly as well with that Cardi B shizzle
Best bars of 2018
@@timothygoodbarz4082 shit.... I'm lying on the floor laughing dude...
It's one of the oldest languages of the world. *Older than Latin*
Well Andre Antunes got his hands all over this masterpiece and create another one.
I sent it to him last November. He did a great job! It's very hard to keep up with something so amazing like this.
Yes he did😂❤
I guess many of us came from Andre’s video to check out the original
Check out Artificial Fear cover.
Very underrated and much longer than AA.
Although I appreciate what Andre has done for Indian and Pakistani ethnic rhythms, in thie case Artificial Fear is the OG!❤😂
Check out Artificial Fear cover.
Very underrated and much longer than AA.
Although I appreciate what Andre has done for Indian and Pakistani ethnic rhythms, in thie case Artificial Fear is the OG!❤😂
손뼉이랑 목소리밖에 없는데 이렇게 좋을수가 있나.... 인간이 예술 그 자체인듯 너무 멋있다
이것은 무형문화재인가 유형문화제인가
@@g.p7179 고민할 필요 없이 무형입니다~ (악보는 유형, 그걸 연주하는 사람의 음악적 능력은 무형, 그 연주 자체도 무형)
I'm from Texas but I have always had a huge respect/fascination with India. Y'all are really interesting
Every single hair on my body is as straight as it can be... this is bone chilling. Wow, so grateful for this art to exist. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Andre for bringing me here.
the fact that they manage to be SO PERFECTLY in sync when doing those insanely fast rhythms shows that they're so attuned to the beat it's just insane
I assumed this was improv until they started going in unison. astonishing
This is improv. But since there's always a mathematical calculation they naturally come to one end phrase which is called mukthayi because that's the only way it's going to be divisible with the number they've chosen for the whole improv.
@@YaminiKalluri98. wot? that's insane
@@narwhal5447 yup! 🙈
@SinisterMinister there can be several mukthayis for different cycles. But by the flow of it they naturally come to an understanding which mukthayi it is. Mukthayis are also made up. This is all a mathematical calculation but after years of practice I feel they go by instinct than logic and still these great artists end up accurate.
That is absolutely mind bending. I just cannot even. Insanely cool.
D J E N T
In all seriousness, this is amazing.
Thank me later: czcams.com/video/JhY85haoP4k/video.html
Tobias Müller nice! Good job sir!
@@progreth Thanks!
Vocal djent
Much more advanced than any djent I've heard so far.
To anyone not familiar with this music, try to listen to the relation between the simple handclap pattern to the singing patterns, notice how the patterns constantly change alignment with the claps.
This are just the gods of polyrhythm.
6 years later. This video still blows my mind.
Beat boxing: kindergarten arithmetic. Konnakol: quantum physics.
You haven’t seen very good beatboxing if you think that’s true haha. What they’re doing is hard because of the speed and rolling of the r’s although I suspect people who speak languages with rolled r’s would have an easier time than us. The sounds themselves aren’t hard are Beatboxers are making two or three sounds all at once and they’re usually sounds that most people could make one at a time.
@ Shabazz It is not just the words, but the entire mathematical structure of the art form called Konnakol. According to many experienced people, knowledge of Konnakol even supports the playing of musical instruments like a guitar. Also, just so you know, as per even the most conservative accounts, Konnakol is atleast 2000 years old.
@@DipayanPyne94 Why does its age matter? It seems to me that this person is talking about the difficulty level.
If they were being literal about the mathematical aspect of it it wouldn’t make since to exaggerate it and say it uses quantum physics.
@@ShabazzTBL I didn't write my previous comment to you keeping the original comment in mind. The original comment is ill-informed, to be very frank. Calling Beatboxing Kindergarten stuff is ridiculous. I just wrote my comment to let you know that Konnakol is not hard just because of the reason that you gave (although I know that u didn't say that that is the only reason). Rolling of R's is completely irrelevant here. If an American learns Konnakol and doesn't get the pronunciation right because of his/her accent, fine. It would sound a bit wrong, but the pronunciation is not really that important. It's the entire theoretical framework of Konnakol (which happens to be atleast 2000 years old) that matters. Konnakol is a part of South Indian Classical Music. Classical Music, from any part of the world, is of primary significance, because it's often very vast and teaches people the basics in a very systematic fashion. By that, I don't mean that Beatboxing is not systematic, lol, but you get my point. Learning Konnakol greatly improves the knowledge of rhythms, in general, and even assists melodic instrumentalists in many ways. Even John McLaughlin, who has teamed up with many Indian Classical Musicians till date, would say that. It's a long story.
@@DipayanPyne94 yeah I was only speaking about making the sounds since I don’t know anything about the music. I believe your description of it.
It's good to see that Jay Leno has a new hobby.
Accurate 😂😂😂😂
hahaha
jajajajaj!!
lmaaaooo
I believe his new fav food is butter chicken masala curry
2:55 has me actually shook. Those dynamics Holy fucking shit
Andre Antunes brought me here. 😄
I was in a drum line high school and this sounds similar to what we would say to each other to describe the drumming phrases when we didn't have our drums. This was a lot cooler, though.
Stuyboyz I feel you bro
Good ol' drumspeak...you should've heard Tom Float doing it back when I was in BD.
@MrMozoak you are right. It is called Konnakkol in this style of music for the percussion instrument Mridangam. In the Hindustani (North Indian) classical music, it is for Tabla or Pakkawaj instruments.
u couldve just learned beeatboxing u wouldnt need ur drums if u master it just listen to adam rupp
Lol “where are we starting from” “from the cha chiggadum chiggadum buggada buggada buggada”
As a drummer, I was amazed! I watched and enjoyed this over and over.
At the risk of sounding stupid, is what they are doing is playing drums but with their mouths and hands only? I've never heard of konnakol until 10min ago but think it's absolutely amazing
*Drummers out there* : lets talk about odd rhythms and metric modulation
*she* : hold my fruit juice
"hold my chai"
Ahahahahha
Yes😂😂😂
@@frzferdinand72 Actually where she's from, (southern India), she would say "hold my filter coffee" 😂
why fruit juice?
this is perhaps the only video in the world, which, every time i happen to open it for some reason i can't stop watching it. absolutely bloody marvelous.
அருமை அருமை அருமை... அடடா.
பிரமாதம்.. உங்கள் இருவர் .. சந்தம்..
என்னவென்று சொல்ல... தமிழ் சொல்லெடுத்து.. சிவ அன்பிலே..
நினைத்து... உடுக்கையின் ஓசையில்..
அதிர்வு.. குரல்வளம் கொண்ட..
சிவத்தின் அடி.. தொழுத தைப்போல்...
உங்களின் குரல் பாதத்தை தொழுது வணங்குகிறேன் வாழ்க உங்கள் குரல் வளம் உயர்க அனைத்துச் சிறப்பும் பெறுக
I don't know what I'm watching but I like it.
Jai gopal
This is bhaarats music bhaartiya music
I mean indian claasical music
@@poonamsharma-xf6xk carnatic music*
@@poonamsharma-xf6xk Karnataka sangeeta (Carnatic music)
I first saw this about 5 years ago, it still blows my mind today, absolutely incredible
Thank you for coming back!
0:40 is the most brutal breakdown I’ve ever heard 🤘🏼
Hell yeah brother 🤘😈
This is amazing. They have no idea how metal they are lol those polyrhythms are awesome. I can’t wait to keep diving down the rabbit hole of this art form
*🌹ಗುರು ಪುರಂದರದಾಸರೇ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಚರಣ ಕಮಲವ ನಂಬಿದೆ ಗರ್ವ ರಹಿತನ ಮಾಡಿ ಎನ್ನನು ಪೊರೆವ ಭಾರವು ನಿಮ್ಮದೇ🙏*
💖❣️❣️What a great words ❣️❣️💖
Always great when people with differing opinions are able to have a calm, reasoned, intelligent - and even rhythmic - debate, especially nowadays
They're singing faster than most people can think. Amazing!
My best friend, who happens to also be Indian, sent me this & it put me in such a wonderful mood. thank you for sharing this beautiful music & culture with the world.
RockAnRollinRodney I'm glad you liked it.
She's keeping the 7 beat talam (not sure what that's called in Carnatic music) with her left hand. Then at 0:50 she starts keeping the talam with her right hand as well and it looks like 7 beats but half the speed of her left hand. So she's keeping two talams and reciting at the same time. What's that about? Is that a certain kind of composition? Crazy, impressive!
Pedro Alter The seven beat Talam in Carnatic music is called Mishram or Mishra Tala.
The thalam in her left hand is Mishra Chaapu (thakadhimi thakita or 4+3). She starts the trishra jaathi triputa thalam with her right hand at that point which is also 7 beats but 7 distinct beats (counting fingers or "laghu" for 3 beats and tapping the palm or 2 "dhruthas" for the next 4 beats)
I was also trying to figure out how that timing worked! Thank you for the explanations Sowmya and Bhuvana.
Right hand: 1,2,3,-4,5,-6,7 :7 beats
Left hand: 123-1,2-1,2 : 7 beats
I highly recommend feeling music at three speeds. Walk half notes, clap quarter notes and sing eight notes.
Andre getting me closer to my own roots, i love it! \m/
who is coming from NME?
me
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I
Me
Esh
Dude those rhythms are absolutely insane
Much love from France.
You both guys are amazing.
In love with this music
Когда во время медитации внезапно заскучал....
2:23 is blowing my mind
Messhugah
Rap god))
அருமை அருமை அருமை அருமை அருமை அருமை அருமை அருமை.... அதனினும்....
இனிமை இனிமை இனிமை இனிமை இனிமை இனிமை .... 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
Me likey your letters.
C'est pas faux
Ngomong apaseh
@@igorjee that's one of the oldest langauges in the world
@@haniefalkindi8214 emang tulisan bisa ngomong
Totally love it. Admiration from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
과나보고온사람
@사탄 역시
고추장커리
@@SEXY_BLAK 속을뻔
저요
둥드라따긱따 동뜨루따라
O Daivame...really.this is maaad rasana...
For those wondering where the Tamil verses are from its from Thevaram(Thirunavukarasar) Thirumurai 6
அப்பன்நீ அம்மைநீ ஐய னும்நீ
அன்புடைய மாமனும் மாமி யும்நீ
ஒப்புடைய மாதரும் ஒண்பொரு ளும்நீ
ஒருகுலமும் சுற்றமும் ஓரூ ரும்நீ
துய்ப்பனவும் உய்ப்பனவுந் தோற்று வாய்நீ
துணையாயென் நெஞ்சந் துறப்பிப் பாய்நீ
இப்பொன்நீ இம்மணிநீ இம்முத் து(ம்)நீ
இறைவன்நீ ஏறூர்ந்த செல்வன் நீயே.
appan:nee ammai:nee aiya num:nee
anpudaiya maamanum maami yum:nee
oppudaiya maatharum o'nporu 'lum:nee
orukulamum su'r'ramum oaroo rum:nee
thuyppanavum uyppanavu:n thoa'r'ru vaay:nee
thu'naiyaayen :negnsa:n thu'rappip paay:nee
ippon:nee imma'ni:nee immuth thu(m):nee
i'raivan:nee ae'roor:ntha selvan :neeyae.
You are loving father,
mother and elder brother;
You are uncle as well as aunt;
You are well-endowed wife and righteous riches,
You are clan,
kin and peerless town;
You are objects of relish and carriers too;
As help,
You authored renunciation in my heart;
You are this gold,
this ruby and this pearl;
You are God;
You alone are the opulent One that rides the Bull.
Verse and Translation is copy pasted from website as mentioned but I would personally translate aiyan as Guru or preceptor. Oppudaiya mathar as 'all virtuous women' uyipana is renouncement...should admit the above translation is off on many levels.
This vocal percussion is on a whole another level
Im calling it... Cadets show next year
that would be awesome
THAT THEER MANNUM WAS CLLEEEAAANNN! VERY CLEAN!!!
Blue Devils this year
false, blue devils
BD.
Meshuggah in vocal form but a few octaves higher.
ah I see you are a man of culture as well
boy do i gotta surprise for you: czcams.com/video/9WVVAnDimj8/video.html&t=5775
oh i see this artificial fear dude made a full djenty rendition of it as well
Nice feature of this can be found here as well: czcams.com/video/JhY85haoP4k/video.html
precisely man! lol
I'm here after Andre... This is how we're not recognising Indian music... But the foreigners praising it
Lovely! 02:23 the syllables are so crisp at that speed. They are so good!
Once in a while i run into something amazing like this that makes me aware I'm merely an intermediate musician. This is some next level shit right here and it should be studied
The future of metal requires it
Record at The Bins with Mike Britt I’m a professional classical musician with a degree from a fancy Western conservatory. I’m in awe.
TOOL DID IT
Check out Mattias IA Eklundh
i'm sure these people are also awestruck by high level classical musicians from europe/america. this is their classical, after all.
Check out Carnatic metal
Amazing talents.. Especially that little girl with her diction and understanding of layam is spell bound.
I have no idea how I got this in my feed, but I am so grateful that I did! Beautiful music!
Wow this is just insane, crazy how something that in India is normal music in this part of the world sounds more like alien type music, such a cool and crazy thing 🏆
Wonderful! Shivapriya god bless you!
I've lost track of how many times I've watched this. It's just amazing, beautiful and impressive.
One of the best konnakol i have ever listened to...let there be greatness in you all
yoooooo.... I'm here because of a class I'm taking!!! I'm glad I watched this!!!! Amazing!
This is therapeutic to my soul
Me encanta! Muy interesante y se disfruta mucho, Felicidades!
That moment when the Metal and Carnatic communities come together
All the metalheads who found this through Andres Antunes, thank you for being appreciative of Indian konakkol music and our arts. These are some incredible heritages you will find only in India. They're as metal as you can get. Some of the skill levels of our artists are off the charts.
Excelentes!!! Hermoso el konnakol para percusion!!!! Gracias!!!
I'm so impressed, it's amazing the minds of these musicians acting in complete coordination and so beautiful in their talents. WOW!
Such a brilliantly wonderful people, culture and contribution to music.
I can only wish that I was a fraction of talented and skilled as these two inspiring souls.
Every time I watch this video I am thoroughly amazed. What a joy!
4:17 Gets lit af
Always loved listening to the Shakti tunes that employed this, never knew the name of the technique before. Thanks for posting.
It gave me chills listening to this incredible pair of musicians! I am in awe! Thank you for sharing your skills with the world! Liked and subscribed!
Amazing counting, rhythm, pulse and synchronization. Have always been curious about this ancient indian art, and here I am watching and enjoying this amazing performance. Cheers from Quito - Ecuador.
This is by far the best thing I've seen!
I'm holding my breath... this is insane!
Really glad I stumbled upon this video.
அருமை அருமை மிக அருமை. பிரமிப்பு. நாவில் நாட்டியம் ஆடும் குழந்தைகளே நீங்கள் நீடுழி வாழ்க! திருமுறையின் இனிமையை அனைத்து குழந்தைகளுக்கும் உணர்த்துமாறு தங்களின் பாகம் பணிந்து வணங்கி கேட்டுக் கொள்கிறேன். நன்றி வணக்கம் திருச்சிற்றம்பலம்.
C'est magnifique, merci pour cette joie et cette maîtrise. 🙏😍
I just had an out of body experience listening to this.
oh god.... simply amazing, humans are amazing.
Just phenomenal!!! I’m mesmerized, especially by her 😍😍
L'indipendenza tra voce e mani, la poliritmia, i tempi dispari, gli unisoni... è strabiliante la tecnica raggiunta in questo tipo di performance! 😲
Onomatopeya en su maxima expresion... WOW. los amo.
as weird as amazing. what a memory you must have to do this! Great performance...
This music brings a tear to my ear man. They use their voices like an Indian classical Bone Thugs n Harmony. Bravo!
The most satisfying thing I have watched in a while.
0:50 best smoothest moment ever
Fantastic musicianship and production here. Came here from Amir's "Konnakol and Quads" video. Konnakol + rudimental Western drumming = modern drum corps/marching band ("modern" being, I guess, within the last 25-30 years).
This. Drummers. Mind. Is. Blown.
Puh! Ein klarer Beweis von Aliens! Extraterrestrial cool! Good flight! o.O
0:50 is so satisfying ugh