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Evoking a Carnatic feel

Staff Reporter

I like to experiment with music, says Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar — Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.

BANGALORE: Anoushka Shankar's promotional concert of her latest album, Rise, here on Sunday saw a coming-together of Hindustani, Western and electronic music and Carnatic classical.

While the running thread in the album is electronic music, it was Carnatic at the concert, evident in the presence of Neyveli S. Radhakrishna on the violin and Pirashanna Thevarjah on the mridangam and the khanjira.

The concert featured three artistes from the album — Tanmoy Bose (tabla), Pedro Ricardo Mino (piano) and Swarnima Gusain (vocals) — and Gaurav Raina (electronic), who helped in co-arranging the song "Mahadeva" from the album.

The concert also saw Sanjeev Chimmalgi's vocal presentation, Ravichandra Kulur on the flute, Clarence Gonsalves on bass and Kenji Ota on tanpura.

While the concert in general terms reflected the compositions in Rise, the Carnatic mix which was alive, enervating and rich in tone, did not particularly reflect the electronic, ambient and cinematic feel of the album.

Though Ms. Anoushka Shankar acknowledged that the sound in the album and that at the concert was different from each other, she said it is her way of promoting her album.

"I like to experiment with music. It's wonderful to bring two very different systems together such as Carnatic percussion with Western classical and electronic. It brings variety and scope and you learn new things along the way. So even while promoting my album, I am learning new things," she said.

Ms. Anoushka Shankar played the numbers Prayer in Passing, Red Sun, Mahadeva, Naked, Solea, Beloved, Sinister Grains and Voice of the Moon, along with two others from outside the album, Sea Dreamer and Re-birth.

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