Saturday, March 18, 2006

Sathya's new album "Carnatic on Keyboard - Vol 3"




Sathyanarayanan has released his 4th album titled Carnatic on Keyboard Vol 3 with Sri Embar S Kannan on violin and Sri Pathri Satiskumar on Mrudhangam. Sathya’s enchancement artist for this new album are Sri Embar S Kannan on the violin and Sri Pathri Satishkumar on the Mrudhangam.

Carnatic on Keyboard – Vol.3, interestingly is a sponsored album by Sri N Balasubramaniam, Partner, T S Mahalingam & Sons (leading car dealers) who has motivated Sathya to do this new album. This album has been made to bring out Sathya’s ability to explore this western instrument to bring out gamakas, the nuances of Carnatic music. The album was recorded at the Radhakrishna Theatrre ,Kothandapani Audio Lab, Chennai with Sri Gopi as the engineer.

K Sathyanarayanan (Born Feb 1, 1995), a child prodigy, took to playing Carnatic music on the keyboard at the age of 6. He has released two albums tilted Carnatic on Keyboard Vol 1 & Vol. 2 for Serendipity Music Productions and ‘The Classic Medley (Vaatapi to Vandematharam) for Kosmic Music. Sathya has passed Grade 8 examination (on electronic Keyboard) conducted by Trinity College, London at the age of 10 and has been performing at several leading Carnatic Music forums. In this album, Sathya using a western instrument has explored the nuances of Carnatic Music with krithis Sri Maha Ganapathim in ragam Gowla, Oothaukadu Venkata kavi’s Balasaramurali in Kiravani, Dikshitar’s Meenakshi in Poorvikalyani, Swathi Thirunal’s Janani Mamava in Bhairavi, & Thaye yesodha in Thodi, Gopalakrishna Bharathi’s Aiye Metha Kadinam – ragamalika apart from Sree raga Varnam and a Ragam Thanam Pallavi (RTP) on ragam Charukesi.

To acquire this album please contact phone nos: 91 – 44 - 42073403 or 24956472 and mobile: 91 – 9884103464.

Photo 1. Cd front wrapper

Photo 2. Sri N Balasubramanian, The producer of the new album.

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