This video is a meditative inner exploration using one facet of self inquiry as taught by sages such as Ramana Maharishi, with music. Set to raga Varamu.
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Master flutist K.S. Gopalakrishnan live concert
Here is a beautiful full length concert by K.S. Gopalakrishnan from 1988. (Update: the previous concert that was listed here was removed, so I have found another and also added a few more videos to the list.)
Here is another KSG recording of the Shri ragam varnam, Sami Ninne. The intensity in the rendition is palpable. I think that aspect is one of the things I admire most about KSG’s music – that deep intensity regardless of what he chooses to play. Earlier there were not that many recordings of KSG on youtube, but now there are quite a few. Enjoy!
Bala Gopala
Prasant Radhakrishnan is a saxophonist specializing in Carnatic music. His approach emphasizes spiritual discovery through music. To learn more about him, visit the about page. You can listen and download his music here or subscribe to his Youtube channel.
M.D. Ramanathan – a video treasure
Here is an amazing 1 hour video of MDR accompanied by TN Krishnan and Sivaraman. It’s worth watching several times and absorbing MDR’s presence and musical sensibility. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SVBjp_gJlo&feature=colike
via SRI M D RAMANATHAN VOCAL SRI T N KRISHNAN VIOLIN SRI UMAYALPURAM SIVARAMAN MRIDANGAM – YouTube.
Recap of concert at Ektaa Center, Irvine, CA
This is a bit overdue, but I thought I would do a quick recap of a concert from August 2007 at the Ektaa Center in Irvine, California. Personnel included myself on saxophone, Ajay Narasimha on Violin and Poovalur Srinivasan on Mridungam. It was the first time playing with Ajay, and had been quite a while since I had played with Poovalur Srinivasan.br /br /I had played a concert with Howard Wiley, David Ewell and Sameer Gupta the night before at the Red Poppy in San Francisco. That was a great show, which I will elaborate upon later. So I drove down directly to the concert hall from the bay area.br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://blog.prasantmusic.com/uploaded_images/irvine_concert-791841.jpg”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://blog.prasantmusic.com/uploaded_images/irvine_concert-791838.jpg” alt=”” border=”0″ //abr /The hall was very intimate and I was actually able to do the concert without a microphone. There was a good connection between the three of us musically. Ajay did a nice job and of course Poovalur sir provided seamless and beautiful mridungam playing as usual.br /br /I was fortunate to get most of the concert on video. Here are a few clips from the concert. The first is the timeless Swati Tirunal composition “Deva Deva.” The other is the beginning of the ragam in the Ragam Thanam Pallavi (main piece of the concert).br /br /object height=”355″ width=”425″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/5w2EQ2sgtE8″param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/5w2EQ2sgtE8″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” height=”355″ width=”425″/embed/objectbr /Deva Devabr /br /object height=”355″ width=”425″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Uh9CWMZr4mk”param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Uh9CWMZr4mk” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” height=”355″ width=”425″/embed/objectbr /Lathangi Ragambr /br /I will post more from this concert soon.br /br /Some pictures from this concert and the Boston concert a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/prasantmusic/sets/72157602499523404/show/”here/a.div class=”blogger-post-footer”a href=”http://prasantmusic.com”Visit Prasant’s website/a | a href=”http://cdbaby.com/all/prasant”Buy CD’s/a/div
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