Jimi Hendrix tribute - Indian classical style

Prasanna performing his composition 'Sri Jimi' from his Jimi Hendrix tribute CD- 'Electric Ganesha Land'. A rocking version of the song from a live Carnatic classical concert on Jan 2, 2007. With Prapancham Ravindran on mridangam and B.S. Purushotham on kanjira, the two percussionists who were also featured in Electric Ganesha Land. More on EGL at http://www.guitarprasanna.com

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• sri
• jimi
• hendrix
• prasanna
• guitar
• rocking
• raga
• indian
• carnatic
• electric
• ganesha
• land
• overdrive

[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

[heavyatheart]

carnatic music should only be played in acoustically engineered halls.

[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............

[icutyouupsobad]

it says it in his biography purple haze too

[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

[codehendrix]

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

[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.

[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...