Weekend Bonanza! Nadaswaram Marathon item!

Shravanam with my favorite instrument Nadaswaram
By none other than Sri Karukuruchi Arunachalam

Arunachalam - Shanmukhapriya - RTP

Length of this item, a little more than two hours!

Enjoy and make a comment.
Let em see how many of you would have a word for the maestro!

I know, some of you must have already listened to the track.
I confess that it is not something that I converted from cassettes.
All other postings by me are my exclusives.

I am sharing this just to celebrate the great man!
No pilferage meant.
I have tonnes of his music with me.
But many people like me also have those recordings!

Anyway, Enjoy!

1002nd Post! A Cartoon for you!

I am like this according to many!

I have never realised my posts in the blog crossed a 1000!

This is in fact No 1002!

I have only shared music, words, pictures and any other material I thought is interesting!

I did it because I enjoyed doing it!

So, not much celebration either!

The series would go on!

Mandolin Music

Shravanam to day is again Instrumental.

U Srinivas - Mandolin

This is a part Concert.
Beginning and the end may be missing.
I have given what I found.
Enjoy!

Todi by Hyderabad Brothers

Shravanam today!

Listen to Sri Raghavachary and Seshachary sing Dasarathi

Enjoy!

On the Tram

Only Kafka can write a story like this!

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

The tram approaches a stopping place and a girl takes up her position near the step, ready to alight. She is as distinct to me as if I had run my hands over her. She is dressed in black, the pleats of her skirt hang almost still, her blouse is tight and has a collar of white fine-meshed lace, her left hand is braced flat against the side of the tram, the umbrella in her right hand rests on the second top step. Her face is brown, her nose, slightly pinched at the sides, has a broad round tip. She has a lot of brown hair and stray little tendrils on the right temple. Her small ear is close-set, but since I am near her I can see the whole ridge of the whorl of her right ear and the shadow at the root of it.

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

Violin today

Sharavanam with Violin.

Sri L Subramaniam on Violin!

Here is the full track.
This is a performance in France.
Sri V Kamalakara Rao garu is on Mridangam.
My friend Anupindi Kamesh gave me many such recordings long back.
I wish he gives me more music after seeing this post!

Now you enjoy the full track and tell others what ragam it is!

Interestingly no one complained that the track is incomplete!

Sri LS with Sri VKR

Bilahari on Flute

Shravanam on Flute

Sri K S Gopalkrishna on Flute

Dorakuna in Bilahari

Enjoy great music!