Artist : T.K. Ramamoorthy
Title : Fabulous Notes And Beats Of The Indian Carnatic Jazz
Genre : Jazz
Year : 2011
Date : 03/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 10
Label : Em Records
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 37:40 min
Size : 53,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.gowla 03:21
02.ranjani 03:02
03.begada 03:45
04.mohana 03:37
05.udaya ravi chandrika 03:26
06.natta 05:14
07.byag - maya malava gowla 03:10
08.sahana 03:57
09.kanakangi 02:57
10.rasikapriya 05:11
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37:40 min
Come join EM Records on another of our
spatio-temporal musical journeys. This
time we're off to Madras 1969 to hear
legendary south Indian film music
composer/director, T. K. Ramamoorthy's
prescient Fabulous Notes And Beats Of
The Indian Carnatic - Jazz, a daring
fusion of Carnatic music and jazz.
Although jazz musicians had been using
Indian elements before this time,
Fabulous Notes was the first recording
in which accomplished Indian musicians
adopted jazz elements. And these are
accomplished musicians indeed, veterans
of the demanding Indian film music
studios, trained in the strict
discipline of the traditional Carnatic
system, led by the visionary
Ramamoorthy, a legendary composer who
collaborated with M. S. Viswanathan in
providing soundtracks for more than 700
films.
The music here is a true Indian music,
adhering to traditional Carnatic ragas
with their varying ascending and
descending modes, using a wide range of
Indian instruments in an appealing
fusion with jazz instruments, ideas and
rhythms. The result is not a slavish
imitation of modish Western styles, but
a stimulating and surprising new entity;
fans of later Ethio-jazz may well
experience a frisson of familiarity at
certain moments when listening to these
recordings.
Famed composer Ramamoorthy is also a
masterful arranger and orchestrator,
giving us surprising vistas of timbre,
allowing instruments to come to the
fore, supported in appealing
combinations. But the true heart of both
Carnatic music and jazz is
improvisation, and TKR allows these fine
players space within the relatively
brief to make their own statements
within the ragas, as detailed in the the
liner notes accompanying this reissue.
What we hear is a new meeting of worlds,
both sharing a respect for the primacy
of improvisation, a love for the
intricacies of ensemble playing, and a
fine understanding of the power of
propulsive yet sophisticated rhythms.
Fabulous Notes reveals a true Indian
music, not merely Occidental music with
hints of Indo-spice. We can picture the
recording sessions, with the musicians
seated on the floor of the studio,
Indian musicians playing Indian music,
playing jazz, playing Fabulous Notes And
Beats Of The Indian Carnatic - Jazz.
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