This creature below was born in the mad scientist’s lab late in the night a couple days ago. This was after an “intense” and “excruciating” labor (of mind of course).
It is a mutant alright, but may be you can still tell whose DNA was used as a basis for it?
Note: I may be presumptuous here, but I think the genealogy should be reasonably obvious at the start itself. The objective was to not completely obscure the origins, although it was definitely to consciously create a mutant (btw, if you cannot tell, this is a convenient excuse that I can always fall back on. Besides, I cannot play “the original” for squat on a guitar – real or synthetic! It seems so much easier to sing
! ).
Oh, and a little heads up: Be a little patient with it, it does try to perk up after a bit!
For those who care, other such creatures can be seen here. They are also accessible from the green My Share box on the right.
July 2, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Hi,
Would like to take a suggestion from you. Could you give me your email or mail me at sathej@gmail.com please?
Sathej
July 3, 2009 at 5:38 am
Excellent. I liked it.
Arun: Thanks and welcome to my blog!
July 15, 2009 at 11:26 am
Is it Kambhoji?
Arun: no
– it is same janya but quite different and phrase oriented (which have been captured albeit in a flat and western sense). The very start of the piece is the “pianoized” aro/avaro.
July 16, 2009 at 11:18 am
Ah, a different janya of Harikambhoji. I spotted a “NDNPDNS” like phrase in the first bit, per your instruction. Google says it could be Natakuranji. Is this correct?
Arun: yes
Sweet sounding ragam, a rather lot more mellow than you usually like to make them sound and a far cry from Mad Lion.
– this one initially was a challenge for me to even break out of the classic carnatic sounding mould i.e. to make something ‘western sounding” as well.
Arun:
Could you please try one in Reetigowla? One superb ragam it is.
Arun: In time. This one has been done quite well in cini world (e.g. the recent subramaniyapuram hit – kangal irandal) – thus I have consciously sort of put it aside. But as revealed elsewhere this is one of my favorite ragas.
Another contender should be Sarasangi.
August 19, 2009 at 11:32 am
Interesting – I have never gotten around to familiarizing myself with n.kurunji…
had one suggestion, if i may – the chords should be more ‘smooth’ than discreet in this case… i.e. strings than piano’sh
try it out am sure you’ll feel the difference…
Arvind
Arun: Thanks for the input. Basically with this raga, I had a hard time breaking out of a carnatic/south-indian sounding mould. I am not sure Strings (i did play with it a bit) would have helped in that regard. Besides I felt a piano ballad somehow made sense – but that is because of the nature of the first two chords (F and C – i.e. standard major scale ones)
September 2, 2009 at 11:39 am
Are you aware of this fusion attempt (of Endaro) by Vidyasagar… ???
you *may* end up changing your perception about smooth chords that break the mould of south-indian/carnatic sounds…..
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