A scintillating concert in the view of the rasikas at Coimbatore on 23rd Mar'08

Coimbatore and Gopi Mama has always been lucky for Sathya and that went to prove same this time too with the concert at Sri KothandaRamaswamy Temple, Ramnagar on the 23rd Mar'08 during their Kumbabisekam festival series. The team of Rajeev on violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanrayanan (who had returned from his successful China Concert Tour) on mrudhangam and HariharaSubramanian impressed the large turnout of audience which over spilled to the corridors of the hall and it was one of the amazing site for Sathya.

In fact sunk in the love and affection of Gopi Mama and family during the stay, self came out of the house with Gopi mama and got into the car as if we had come for a holiday and returning without even realising that i had not taken the instrument in the car. H/ever, thanks to Mr Biju, the carroti, managed to be just few minutes late. The concert started off with a Sri Raga varnam (only this has been missed from the recording) followed by Gumganapathim in Hamsadhwani. The raga alapanas for Chandrajothi, Karahapriya were handled well by both Sathya and Rajeev. Suri and Hari were at their best throughout and the team gave an inspiring Pallavi in ragamalika format set to Adhi thalam. This pallavi was a small thought of self when we were coming from a trip and the words came out on Lord Rama. Infact this was performed in Brindhava Saranga in Sri Krishna Gana Sabha during Dec'07 series and so Sathya decided to do little differently this time.

The sahithyam was performed the following way:
Ramanai - Chakravagam, Sri Ramanai - Thodi,

Raghu Ramanai - Kalyani Namam - Kalyani,

Padi - Thodi, Arulperuvom - Chakravagam

Sathya sang this pallavi firstly in all three ragams and then sang it in the above order to ensure it registers in one's mind. It was indeed a great success with the team excelling during this piece and also Sathya maintained the ragamalika format even during the final thanma and korvai during the kalpanaswarams. It was indeed a new experience for Sathya with full attentive audience numbering probably more than 750 as said by the organisor. The organisor mentioned that it was one of the houseful shows which remained so till the very end.Credits to the audience as they did not move around even and after thani also. The team was very happy and with the blessings of Sri KothandaRamaswamy, this concert looked to be taking them to the next level of performance! You can listen to the full audio track except the first number in the link is:

http://sangeethamshare.org/sathya/

Please select serial number 007 and rightclick each track and use the option Save Target As to save in your system. You can also use copy shortcut option and use it in play erl option of winamp to listen to the tracks.

The list perforemd are as under:

01. Varnam - SriRagam - Adhi
02. Gumganapathim - Hamsadhwani - Adhi - Thisra nadai (OR & S)
03. Bagadhanaiya - Chandrajothi - Adhi [OR & S]
04. Marugelara - Jayanthasri - Adhi
05. Pakkalanilapadi - Karaharapriya - Misrachaapu [R]
06. Kantajudumi - Vachaspathi - Adhi - [S]
07. Neevadaneegana - Saranga - Kandachappu
08. Janaki Ramana - Kaapi - Adhi [S] - AR
09. Ragam Thanam Pallavi
10. Kuraionrumillai - Raagamalika - Adhi [AR]
11. Muralidhara - Maandu - Adhi [AR]
12. Palukebangaru - Anandhabhairavi - Adhi
13. Kanyakumari's Thillana - Sindhubahiaravi - Adhi [Ragam requested by Audience]
14. Medley - consisting Nadhapudi, Chennikula, Manemarikozhundhey,
Nadhabindhu, Radhasamedha, Vandheymadharam and Raghupathy Ragava

It was interesting that the audience started chanting Rama namam at the end and it was a flow of positive energy in the auditorium. The highlight was that after almost packing up few rasikas wanted to listen to Sathya singing the Palavi line once again and he did so. People were seen noting down the words and it was indeed a great moment.
You can view few clipping of video here :

A concert Sathya loved for the beauty of the location as well!

It was in a picturesque atmosphere the Tamil Nadu Music College in Madurai is located and Sathya loved the same. In the middle of great land scape and mountains, it is indeed an ideal location for some one to learn particularly music, away from any sort of pollution. Sathya with the new team of Nellai Ravindran on violin, Madurai Thyagarajan on Mrudhangam and Papanasam Sethuraman on Kanjeera gave a performance which was very much enjoyed by every one of the college students and also the faculties who were the main audience. The details of the song list and audio link will be provided very soon.

A great concert with blessing of Sri Ramani Guruji

It was indeed a great blessing for Sathya to perform at the Kagabhujandar Temple for Sri Ramani Guruji on the 17th Mar'08. The team of Rajeev on violin, Calcutta Karthick on Mrudhangam and HariharaSubramanian on Ghatam gave an excellent presentation. There was indeed a great gathering of people from all walks of life including many foreigners. The audio of the concert has come good will be uploaded very shorlty.

1st and the 450th concert under NADOPASANA

It was indeed a great day for Sathya as it was the 450th concert he was performing on stage. It is also a coincidence that he was performing for the same forum, Nadopasana, which gave him the first ever oppurtunity on the 9th Dec'01!

Sathya started with a brisk Sahana varnam playing two kalams and taking the madhyama kalam for charanam also performed kalpanaswaram, being first attempt.He then went on to perform Srimahaganapathey in Gowla with a good outline of the raga and kalpanaswaram. Rajeev on violin along with Calcutta Karthick on mrudhangam and Valaingaiman Hariharasubramaniam on ghatam were excellent and were enhancing the concert to their best.

Sathya detailed alapana for Begada and after the concert many of his well wishers who have been constantly following him complemented for his level of maturity seen in his approach to the raga aalapana. The krithi Nadopasana was followed by a brisk krithi in Neevada in Saranga set to Kanda Chaapu. He then gave an outline for Bilahari and performed Karpagambike set to rupaka thalam and the phrases of both Sathya and Rajeev during the kalpanaswarams and the percussion support were indeed good. Sathya took up Lathangi as the main krithi for the day and did a good aalapana, so did Rajeev and performed the krithi Piravaram Tharum set to Adhi. Percussionist gave a good thani which was followed by a Bhajan - Nanda Nandhanu and completed the concert with Karunai Deivame Karpagame in Sindhubhairavi.

Thanks to all who were present for his 1st concert on the 9th Dec'01 and were seen here too. This itself is a great blessing for Sathya. He also had few artists turning up and the greatest blessing was of Smt Jayalaksmi Santhanam, a renowned Singer apart from SAFE Sri Ramabadran and many of Sathya's well wishers.

Here is few small video tracks of teh concert as audio was not recorded.



Thanks to Calcutta Karthick who has given us the cd of this recording on teh 29th Mar'08 and the link is http://sangeethamshare.org/sathya/008_Nadopasana_02Mar08/