VidyA - "Charukesi" Live at Million Fishes Artist Collective

VidyA performs "Charukesi" a piece based on the raga of the same name at the Million Fishes Artist Collective in San Francisco, California on March 23, 2007. The performance was a collaboration with poet Alyssa Nickell, who is featured in other videos from the same performance.

"VidyA's music breathes at the very center of a cultural crossroads between the North American jazz idiom and the Carnatic music of South India.

VidyA's music is a new vein of North American music... present tense, present location, new culture in the making."

-Todd Brown, Red Poppy Art House

Visit www.vidyamusic.com for more information.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• carnatic
• jazz
• indian
• classical
• music
• saxophone
• drums
• bass
• acoustic
• violin
• prasant
• sameer
• david
• gautam
• vidya

[ashtamam]

Great.. Who are these guys?

[pcarnatic]

VidyA

Prasant Radhakrishnan - saxophone/founder

Gautam Ganeshan - Violin

David Ewell - Bass

Sameer Gupta - Drums

see vidyamusic dot com for more info about this group.

[funkeemon]

beautiful music !!!!!

[pramodkrish]

Pretty interesting music...the violinist must get more into it

[leuolal]

Prasant: I followed you since you were 17. You have managed to draw such a soft sound from the sax to fit carnatic, and then your combination of ragam and jazz to develop on melodic outline is very pleasing. I would suggest to find a way to muff the drums, particularly the ride cymbals. Sameer is a very good drummer, that is not the issue. I do think he could experiment with different types of cymbals, fuller drums, to reduce the ambient high pitch moise. But of course this is not studio work!

[xAnesthesiAx]

are you deaf?

[iiirhd]

this is awesome guys

its really inspired me

[donna8157]

Awesome. I love this song. Keep posting more.

[santhoshlaxman123]

Good stuff!