Chayaranjani
Many years back when I was learning up songs of GNB my Guru taught me Nee valayinche in the ragam Chayaranjani. This song was not in...
top of page
Jun 26, 2011
Ragam Tanam Pallavi and some innovations
Here is a link to a review of my recent Sydney concert tha appeared online http://sydhwaney.com/swaralaya-festival-of-music-2011-part-1/...
Mar 1, 2011
More gyan on the Mela-Janya topic
Ok here is some more gyan on the above issue as requested by a commenter. The first point is that the mela-janya scheme in the current...
Feb 25, 2011
Mela-Janya
The mela-janya relationship between ragas has been in existence for a long time. However in the last 100-150 years there has been a shift...
Jun 11, 2009
Scale and Rakthi
As a young and upcoming musician in the late eighties I have for long heard experts talk about ragas being classified as ‘scale’ ragas...
Jul 21, 2008
A little more on Abheri
I was just going through some old journals of the Music academy and came upon the article on Abheri by Amy Catlin, the American...
Jul 15, 2008
Karnata/Karnataka Devagandhari
Please refer my earlier post about Abheri/Pantuvarali where there was a discussion about the origin of these ragas and their...
Jul 12, 2008
Pantuvarali, Abheri etc
I thought I’ll post something more technical for a change. Last December in the Music Academy, I had sung an RTP and called it Abheri....
bottom of page