Maestro T.N.Seshagopalan.. Breathtaking Hindolam!

[adiddude]

This is incredible. Shame on the fools who tried to judge this master.

[barathmusic2009]

ah this thing is really breath taking,wat a breath control

[thodilover]

As one with limited knowledge of Carnatic music, but nevertheless enjoys it, I was captivated by Sri TNS's alapana (?) of Hindolam. I am not sure how many musicians can do this! Can somebody post the whole alapana of Hindolam?

[Chempadu123]

However beautiful combination of notes he uses; everything is spoiled by his lack of discipline to adhere to harmony(Sruthi)

[paintshroedinger]

hey who the fuck do you think you are? you stupid fuck head...your talking about apaswaram...you can hardly fart in that age...

[paintshroedinger]

hey who the fuck do you think you are? you stupid fuck head...your talking about abaswaram...you can hardly fart in that age...

[sangeetha216]

The so called big names in carnatic music in chennai...they dont understand that music has to surpass techniques and should feel 'nice' to the ears... A group of jokers say 'wah, wah bale bale' and others follow suit...lol

[integrateindia]

@sangeetha216 What do you mean to say??? Is this one good or not

[youisfun]

Im amazed by the way he can seamlessly do the brigas. A very nice alapana, but like someone said it came at a cost. 0:36 has an apaswara, Ni3 (?). Awesome max, otherwise.

[Prasad92751]

Mr Panchamkauns... There is nothing weird in him.. may be in you... !!!

[4923ariwan]

see the guy beside him continious shaking head trying to tell ...ITS WRONG,,,NO.. NO.. NO.. NO..

[someac]

@4923ariwan ha ha.. that is the funniest interpretation of an acknowledgment.

[Bushrraff]

@4923ariwan

YES :))

[Bushrraff]

@4923ariwan

YES :)) I agree with you!

[vsgopalakrishnan]

In Hindustani, the taans in Malkauns would have been rendered with greater beauty. The South does not care for beauty or shringaram and is just technical.

vs gopal

[korektphool]

@vsgopalakrishnan

just because malkauns and hindolam share the same notes it does not mean they are the same raag. malkauns in hindustani music has a totally different 'feeling' to carnatic hindolam, so it is fruitless to compare.

[Bushrraff]

He took breath many times in between.. Looks, he has OVER done, spoiling the mood of the beautiful raga.

[revakishore]

amazing..........

[panchamkauns]

Yes, Seshagopalan does some weird stuff sometimes. He has given concerts where he played a synthesizer instead of singing. But what a singer he is!!

[knagaraj]

I agree with sramkris70...however, TNS sometimes almost never cares about proper diction when he sings.

[sramkris70]

The vocal power of TNS and his virtuosity are unquestionable. But sometimes he gets carried away. I remember an otherwise splendid kutcheri in Cochin (circa 1994) wherein something snapped and his swara rendition in Todi trangressed into another raga!

But, lest we forget, some strangeness in the proportion is often characteristic of genius and along with BMK, TNS is a true musical genius of our times.

[9941150163]

One of the Amazing renditions.... i like his way of singing,......

[utubevellorears]

Most welcome 9941150163

[9941150163]

can anyone explain what is Alapana, gamaka & briga... ? please.......

[utubevellorears]

Alapana essentially refers to the expansion of a raga well confined to its limits as exemplified by the typical swaras or notes and sancharas or characteristics of the given raga. Gamakas, with reference to Indian music , denote the subtle , yet sublime variation of pitch of a note, by resorting to the usage of heavy forceful oscillations between adjacent and distant notes. Brigas refer to electrifying transitions up and down the scale (Arohana,Avarohana) of a given raga.

[9941150163]

thank you utubevellorears........ now i understand to my best,

[uptothe]

Utubevelloreears" thank you for the information. So are gamakam and briga essentially the same. Can you please point out an example. As per your defenition, will it be correct to say that hindustani music adotes briga usage while carnatic music is more on gamakam?

[Ooga001]

@9941150163 think of Alapana as a metaphor of life: freedom with limits! ;)

[guitarguy1381]

I don't think your judgement of my "knowledge" is of any concern to anyone nor is it of any concern to me in particular. That being said, there is complexity in simplicity. What is complex isn't necessarily what is good. If you dont understand this, you should listen to MD Ramanathan. People that claim to be "knowledgeable" are the ones who struggle to understand music for what it is, a subjective art, open to interpretation.

[totalflirtster]

and your "assessment" of TNS's music and my knowledge couldn't have made me care any less.. I have listened to a lot of MDR's renditions- I am in agreement with you that he is great. People who criticize TNS's way of singing as being complex are simply those who are speaking out of jealousy boss.. before doing that.. please make a self assessment of your own self to see if you can even identify the basic math (kanakku) in any of his RTP's.. or do you even know wat an RTP is?

[writer2244]

Impressive singing, with breath-taking brigas. I call this briga-oriented singing. But Carnatic music is gamaka-oriented, not briga-oriented. Carnatic music sounds better when sung with proper gamakas. At high speed, gamakas go out the door. He is pleasant to hear when he sings in slow or medium tempo: e.g., when he sings Surati at madhyama kala. Vocalists should give gamakas their prime and proper place, and sing with bhava, as the Alathoor Brothers and Madurai Mani Iyer did.

Yesh Prabhu

[totalflirtster]

dude.. i think it takes amazing brilliance to sing such stuff man.. and some knowledge to even understand this!

[guitarguy1381]

sounds like a choo-choo train. To each their own I suppose. Rendering the most technically difficult combinations isn't necessarily the most pleasing to the ear. There are people who can play guitar and lightning speeds. Doesn't mean a thing.

[totalflirtster]

yes.. probably true.. it wont mean a thing to you anyways if you dont understand it.. how can one appreciate certain things if he is totally ignorant.. applies in your case!

[schopenhauersring]

I loved this. I liked Jon Higgins' Hindolam too, actually. :)

[ksmani01]

which one came first - chicken or egg ? well, what ever you ordered first !!

[cricketlover1117]

i have a question. i'm not very knowledgeable abt carnatic music, but i do follow hindustani classical very closely.

which came first: hindolam or malkauns?

[totalflirtster]

amazing Hindolam! no one can equal TNS!

[shankari15bala]

yes its really breathtaking hindolam . nodoubt hes saraswathys amsam.longlive tns

[savvysubu]

hmm. sure, that was breathtaking.. but seriously, guys, haven't you heard a better hindolam in your life? hyping up stuff like this conveys a wrong idea about carnatic listeners.

[imsupersmart815]

you know absolutely nothing about carnatic music buddy. aesthetics are a huge part of carnatic music; however, a voice which can execute such phenomenal brigaa is to be celebrated. one must use it to it's full power. TNS is god. maybe you have people who sing nice sangathees in hindolam that everybody likes, but this is true innovation with proper raga bhavam. you suck balls buddy.

[bugsnspikes]

that was outta this freakin world!!

[imsupersmart815]

holy shit. i have a recording in kalyani TNS from like 1970. amma ravamma it's like a 3 minute brigaa fest building on the Nishadam and everybody claps afterwards when he comes back to the Nishadam and touches Shadjam.