Jimi Hendrix tribute - Indian classical style

[bhayanakmautchaos]

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Vaibhav8584 ... +1 ... indian ocean was there .. and now motherjane is so into it ! .. they sure know how to rock with indian music !

[electrixladyland69]

Sounds cool! I like it!

[ironbuttermilk]

I'm not crazy about the style of the piece, too frenetic for me, but I don't think that this kind of percussion doesn't sit well with electric intruments as a rule. It can work beautifully, but I think the bass is what's missing here, as well as low-end percussion. The percussion instruments here just don't hvae the depth to support the guitar on their own. There also is no tanpura, which would also help.

[kariaudar]

Thunderous intensity. A marvellous fusion of carnatic and rock.

[fragmaka]

i could listen to this all day............

[originalname33]

Jimi Hendrix once amazed Vishwa Shankar(Ravi Shankars son), who was a Sitar master, by playing along Vishwa on Sitar, in the difficult timing of Raga...which may take years to master. yet Jimi played under, around Vishwa with ease.

[holikarang]

raga has not to do with timing...but with melody...

[originalname33]

timing my friend, IS melody. timing is also phrasing. I do not quite follow what you say...I mean, timing is the umbrella under which melody, phrasing, harmony fall.

they are simply products of timing.

[holikarang]

well if you meant that it's fine, sorry but I didn't follow myself the comparison between the Hindustani treatment of the ragas + Jimi Hendrix and this video, which seems to be something else. I personally feel the electric instrument here doesn't mix well with the unplugged traditional instruments, but I assume with Jimi Hendrix it was a different story and they probably jammed in the alaap portion, or not?...

[originalname33]

hmmm, I couldn't tell you. I read it in a book. far as I know, Jimi just plugged in his Strat to a small amp and played as he normally would.

I agree that electric instruments usually don't sound good with the traditional instruments. but in Jimi's case, it was all in his fingers. if you watch a video of him playing on a small amp or listen to a jam sessin, its all in the fingers.

[holikarang]

well, I don't find it hard to believe that in Jimi's case it was different, but in this video, althought there is a good effort, I feel something does not work...

[kandgenterprise]

I think the word he is looking for is notes.....Each rag has a certain set of notes that can be played within the rag. So timing has nothing to do with staying within a rag as much as playing the notes in the right order and not playing notes outside the rag.

[codehendrix]

how do you know this... im a huge hendrix fan and ive never heard this..

[originalname33]

I already mentioned I read it in a book bro

the book is called Electric Gypsy

you can read an e book of it online, but its pretty limited

[icutyouupsobad]

it says it in his biography purple haze too

[guitarmancool]

Amazing precision........i tell u guys its very difficult to get these classical sounds out of a GUITAR..........DO U KNW GUITAR WAS DERIVIED FROM EK-TARA FROM INDIA LONG AGO..!!

[shivajigr8]

sahi jugal bandi hai! thousand thumbs up!

[Vaibhav8584]

This piece of Music is played with a lot of passion, hardwork and basic rules in mind. Mr. Prasanna is definitely an Intelligent Musicians and his style of playing is a reflective of Legendary John Mclaughin. It's amazing what can be achieved when we stick to our guns. I always believe it's only Indian Music which is our core competency and we should build around that, always.

Musically

Vaibhav

[hellsabbath]

very nicely said....

[isaacnd200]

Thank you

[heavyatheart]

carnatic music should only be played in acoustically engineered halls.

[heavyatheart]

this is a masterpiece. I wish the sound was of the studio quality for something as precious as this. hats off to you dear prasanna.

[hugecricketfan]

he is a genius

[namusav]

i was there! he dedicated it to me! =D great person!chalenges himslelf nd sets his own stds with every song.easy to make a ragam like hamsadwani sound perfectly beautiful carnatc or fusion but safe beautiful music like that,every great soul can play.prasannas more,knows so many ragams,not scared o mistakes.altho its hard to hear him hit a false note,u know that its not safe music.come out of a chalenge,a fearless vision to see beyond.hendrixblues and sriragam,who can put that together?

[erasermcfleafly]

stds?

[kkhadka]

prasanna rocks

[ShantiHank]

awesome