Hindola-Malkauns – 2008

Hindola-Malkauns

Ragas and talas are the mainstay of classical Indian music.

When rendered as free improvisation and with embellishments of swaras (notes), ragas represents colors and emotions. Structured improvisation and melodies are set to talas.

In this project, we present in detail, various aspects of two popular ragas, Hindola of Carnatic tradition and Malkauns of Hindustani tradition. These two ragas are counterpart of each other in the two musical traditions.

Ragas are musical scales. Talas are rhythms.

MUSICIANS

Carnatic:

Veena: Dr. Krishna Raghavendra
Flute: M.K.Pranesh
Violin: Charulatha Ramanujam

Hindustani:

Bansuri: Pravin Godkhindi

Western:

Keyboards: Dave King-Bass and Sangeeth Thomas

Percussion:

Mridangam, Tavil and Konnakol: Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma
Tabla: S.S.Venugopal Raju
Khanjira: Amrit N
Ghatam: Giridhar Udupa
Western Drums, Rhythm Pads and Tambourine Effects: Arun Kumar