Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/13

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Subject: [Leica] Indian music examples
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu Dec 13 18:59:30 2007
References: <1be504db0712130919w1c8022e9j10d1f97860ca9d62@mail.gmail.com>

Was it K.V.Narayanaswamy? If so yes, he was a major figure in Carnatic
music, and he died in 2002. As an aside, he sang at my parents' wedding in
1948...In our tradition in South India there is always live music with the
reception at weddings, though that is changing nowadays:

http://www.narada.org/kvn/

Cheers
Jayanand

On Dec 13, 2007 10:49 PM, Phil Swango <pswango@att.net> wrote:

> J. Govindaraj wrote:
> What I mean is that because Indian classical is all modal, and your ear is
> attuned to it, later Coltrane, Ornette or even someone like Albert Ayler
> become quite enjoyable
> =======================
>
> A lot of the time I think Ayler was expressing himself through timbre more
> than harmony or melody.  He once called his own music "energy music", as
> distinguished from Trane's "space bebop" (Ayler's term).  "Primal scream"
> would get pretty close to the idea. ;-)
>
> There's a new film (2007) about him called "My Name is Albert Ayler."  I
> saw
> it last week and liked it.  More here:
> http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/my_name_is_albert_ayler/
>
> Also, I have a question.  Years ago I had a record of a South Indian
> singer
> named N.V. Narayanaswamy on the Nonesuch label.  Do you know of him, and
> if
> so, would that be an example of Carnatic music?  I remember that I liked
> it
> a lot.
>
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