Comments on: Blue oyster cult doing a carnatic raga? http://sunson.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/blue-oyster-cult-doing-a-carnatic-raga/ Arunk's ramblings Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:02:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Arunk http://sunson.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/blue-oyster-cult-doing-a-carnatic-raga/#comment-650 Arunk Wed, 21 May 2008 00:46:24 +0000 http://sunson.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/blue-oyster-cult-doing-a-carnatic-raga/#comment-650 Thanks sughosh and welcome to my blog! Thanks for the police references. I listened to Behind my Camel - it does use a subset of dharmavati. From what I can tell, sa-ri-ga-ma being the main pattern and that of course being s r2 g2 m2 - same as many ragas including dharmavati. Then there is then r2 (in higher octave), and then pa I think. I wonder why the guys didnt expand on it. It almost seems like they had a snippet of tune which seemed fine but couldn't build upon it more :). BTW, the wiki page for it is interesting - how it won the grammy but both Sting and Stewart copeland hated it!! The other one "Voices inside my head" - yep it indeed does follow the s.saveri *scale* although I wouldn't go far as qualifing as PURE s.saveri - mainly because I would then expect carnatic specific gamakas for the swaras as appropriate ;) Thanks sughosh and welcome to my blog!

Thanks for the police references. I listened to Behind my Camel – it does use a subset of dharmavati. From what I can tell, sa-ri-ga-ma being the main pattern and that of course being s r2 g2 m2 – same as many ragas including dharmavati. Then there is then r2 (in higher octave), and then pa I think. I wonder why the guys didnt expand on it. It almost seems like they had a snippet of tune which seemed fine but couldn’t build upon it more :) . BTW, the wiki page for it is interesting – how it won the grammy but both Sting and Stewart copeland hated it!!

The other one “Voices inside my head” – yep it indeed does follow the s.saveri *scale* although I wouldn’t go far as qualifing as PURE s.saveri – mainly because I would then expect carnatic specific gamakas for the swaras as appropriate ;)

]]> By: Sughosh http://sunson.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/blue-oyster-cult-doing-a-carnatic-raga/#comment-649 Sughosh Tue, 20 May 2008 12:08:54 +0000 http://sunson.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/blue-oyster-cult-doing-a-carnatic-raga/#comment-649 Great to see someone going into such details of Carnatic music, without taking an essentially purist or overly technical approach. Your blog looks interesting for sure. On Dharmavathi, well maybe not an exact match , but check out "Behind my Camel" by The Police..definitely some shades of it there I think. Also "Voices inside my head" from the same album (Zenyatta Mondatta) sounds to me like PURE Suddha Saveri....I even do mental remixes of the song with Darini telusukonti :-) Great to see someone going into such details of Carnatic music, without taking an essentially purist or overly technical approach. Your blog looks interesting for sure.

On Dharmavathi, well maybe not an exact match , but check out “Behind my Camel” by The Police..definitely some shades of it there I think.

Also “Voices inside my head” from the same album (Zenyatta Mondatta) sounds to me like PURE Suddha Saveri….I even do mental remixes of the song with Darini telusukonti :-)

]]> By: Arun http://sunson.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/blue-oyster-cult-doing-a-carnatic-raga/#comment-255 Arun Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:03:54 +0000 http://sunson.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/blue-oyster-cult-doing-a-carnatic-raga/#comment-255 Hi Arun, listened to the BOC clip and was spell bound.. man! i am BOC-ignorant, but that sure sounded similar to dharmavati/hemavati. fantastic blog you have man! most of though is over the head for me... stumbled onto your blog searching for more info on Vakulabharanam. I am a huge Led Zeppelin fan and have always wondered about their music in terms of how they blend Indian Classical music shades into their hard rock/metal themes. glad to find yet another person who likes such parallelisms..:) cheers! :-) <em>Arun(k): Thanks Arun! Zeppelin has at least Kashmir which has an Indian/Middle-eastern feel. I don't remember now but perhaps also "No Quarter"?</em> Hi Arun,
listened to the BOC clip and was spell bound.. man! i am BOC-ignorant, but that sure sounded similar to dharmavati/hemavati.

fantastic blog you have man! most of though is over the head for me… stumbled onto your blog searching for more info on Vakulabharanam. I am a huge Led Zeppelin fan and have always wondered about their music in terms of how they blend Indian Classical music shades into their hard rock/metal themes.

glad to find yet another person who likes such parallelisms..:)

cheers! :-)

Arun(k): Thanks Arun! Zeppelin has at least Kashmir which has an Indian/Middle-eastern feel. I don’t remember now but perhaps also “No Quarter”?

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