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Jewels Of Rhythm

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Language
  
Tamil

Genre
  
World

Label
  
Gitaa Cassettes

Release date
  
30 September 2011

Producer
  
T. S. Nandakumar

Jewels Of Rhythm

Artist
  
Mridanga Vidwan T S Nandakumar

Jewels Of Rhythm is a percussion music album composed by T S Nandakumar. It consists of instrumental music followed by well structured Laya Vinyasam composed in Sankeerna Chappu Thalam. It includes string instruments like violin, Tambura, woodwind instruments like flute, percussion instruments like Mridangam, Thavil, Kanjira, Ghatam, Morsing and Konnakol.

Contents

Development

Nandakumar was interested in promoting his students so he decided to compose an album and he was very particular that in his album the performance of percussion instruments should be his students and he did it.He trained his students in the percussion instruments like Mridangam,Kanjira,Ghatam,Morsing,Thavil and Konnakol and put all his efforts for giving in-depth and advanced training to his young disciples who have provided percussion support in this album.The Unique part in this album is all the percussion instruments including konnakol is performed by his students.This album was a dramatic commercial success.Then he composed more volumes of this album.He composed total three volumes.After the release of this album he quoted "Music is like an ocean which never ends so its learning process never ends".All this composition and training was done in India, Mumbai.

Release

The release of this Percussion Music Album of the 1st volume was done by AVM Audio in the year 1993.

Track listing

The soundtrack consists of seven tracks.

Original version

Notes
  • Jathi is a term in carnatic music that signifies the beat count of the rhythm cycle. It specifically applies to lagu component(s) of the tālam and not necessarily to the entire tālam. The different jathis are tisra (three beats in lagu), chathusra (four), khanda (five), misra (seven) and sankeerna (nine).
  • Personnel

  • Introductory Commentary – Dr.Srinivasan
  • Flute – Krishnamurthy
  • Violin – Vanamala,Venugopal
  • Tambura – Raju
  • Mridangam – Vijay, Vivek
  • Thavil – Kumar
  • Kanjira – Sriram
  • Ghatam – Shankar
  • Morsing – Gopal
  • Konnakol – Vidya
  • Songs

    1Introduction and Commentary3:28
    2Keertanam Hamsadhwani Adi Layavinyasam22:54
    3Pallavi Kamboji Misrachapu Layavinyasam30:06

    References

    Jewels Of Rhythm Wikipedia