Genre Various Official website www.amuthammusic.com | Country of origin India Founded 2000 | |
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Founder Dr. Winston Panchacharam Location Nanuet, New York, United States | ||
Amutham Music Inc. is a notable Indian independent record label based in Nanuet, New York. Founded by Dr. Winston Panchacharam in 2000, Amutham Music specialises in Carnatic music, as well as Indian devotional music.
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Sudha Ragunathan's album, "Sriranjani", was Amutham Music's first release. Although it was initially intended as a one-off to help raise Sudha Ragunathan's professional profile outside of India, it became such a big success that Winston Panchacharam, Amutham Music's president, decided to release a few more recordings.
Artists
Other than Sudha Ragunathan, who is now Amutham Music's managing director, several other notable Carnatic musicians have released recordings with Amutham Music, including Nithyasree Mahadevan, S. Sowmya, P. Unnikrishnan, among others. Bombay S Jayashree,Aruna sairam, O S Arun, T M krishna,Maaloa kannan,Priya Sisters, Ranjani-Gayatri,A.K.C.Natarajan A.N.Kishnan,Akkari Subbulakshmi,Ananthalakshmi Sadagopan,Anujan Krishnamoorthy,Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar Arvind,Anuradha Sriram,Bala Brundam,Balasai,Beena,Bhushany Kalyanaraman,Bombay Saradha,C V Kannan,Charulatha Mani,Chithraveena Ravikiran,D K Pattammal, Deepika,Divya,Dr. Kunnakudi Vaidhyanathan,Dr.Lavanya,Dr.M.L. Vasanthakumari,Dr.R.Thiagarajan,K.M.Shyam Sundar,V. Ramakrishna,Dr.S.Ramanathan,G J R Krishnan,Gayathri Girish,Gayathri Venkatragavan, Geetha Raja, Ghatam karthick,Gopika Poornima,Harish Raghavendra,Hema Narasimhan,Hemajohn,Hiramalini Seshadri,J.Bhakatavatsalam,K.S.Manjunathan,Kadayanallur Sri Tukaram Ganapathi Maharaj Kadyanallur K.S.Rajagiopal Bhagavathar,karaikkudi Sampasiva Iyer,Karthik,Karukurichi Arunachlam,L.Ranjani Iyer,L.Shantha,Laksahmi Rangarajan,Lalgudi G.Jayaraman,Levlin,M M Dhandapani Desikar,M R Ramani,M.A.Venkatakrishnan,Malladi Brothers,M.V.Anantha Padmanabhan, J.Shanmuga Sundaram,Madhu Blakrishnan,Mala Chandrasekar,Malladi Brothers,Master Kannan,Ms.Divya,Ms.Eswari,Sri Gopi,Dr,. Hiramalinismt. Mysore Vasudevachar,Nagai Mukundan,Neyveli Santhana Gopalan,Nisha Rajagopal,Omana Kutti,P.Vasanth Kumar,Palakad Prasad,Palghat Sreeram Priya Sisters,R VedaValli,R.Deivanayagam,R.Mahendran, Raja Vadhyar.P.R.,Rajesh Vaidhya,Ramesh Vinayagam,S.P.Balasubramaniyam,Saindhavi, Saketha Raman,Salem Gayathri,Sangeetha,Sangeetha Sivakumar,Sankari krishnan,Sankari krishnan,Sarojini Sundaresan,Sathya Praksh,Savitha Narasimhan,Sethalapthi Balasubramaniyam,Sheeba,Shoba Sekar,Shyam Sundar,Sikkil Gurucharan,Smt. Seetharajan,Sri kanth,Sri Mukkur Swamigal, Sri Ram Ganagadharan,Sri U.Ve.Velukkudi Krishna Swamy,Sri Vidhyabhushana,Subiksha Rangarajan,Suguna Purusthomman,Suguna Varadhachari Suki Sivam, Sumithra & Sunanda,Sumithra Nithin,Sunitha,Swami Namananda Giri,Swamy Haridhos Giri,Swaroop,T N Sesha Gopalan,Udayalur K.Kalyanaraman,V.G.Seshadri,Vakulabharanam,Vasuda kesav,Vasundhra Rajagopal,Veeramani Kannan,Vidhya Ragunath,Vijalakshmi Subramaniyam Vijalakshmi Subramaniyam,Vijay Shiva,Yogacharya Arunkumar.
Thematic presentations
Panchacharam's vision for Amutham focused not so much on singers, but more on composers and themes. Early releases featured classic compositions by composers like Thyagaraja and Dikshithar, considered the Mozart and Beethoven of the Carnatic repertoire. Later releases moved onto more modern composers like Papanasam Sivan and Subramania Bharathiyar. One feature of these thematic presentations by Amutham Music is that no piece would be recorded by one artist and then re-recorded by another.
Other types of Amutham theme recordings have focused on a song's subject rather than composers. Amutham's top-selling CDs include "The Dance of Shiva" by Sudha Ragunathan, and "Ragam Vol. 1" by Nithyasree Mahadevan - the first of which popularises compositions of Lord Nataraja (the cosmic form of Shiva), while the latter album is made up of songs in which the governing raga is mentioned either at the beginning of the composition, or is the subject of the composition. Nithyasree Mahadevan's "Murugan Pamalai Vol. 1" similarly popularises compositions on Lord Muruga.