Inde du Sud – Musiques carnatiques – Cochin – Tanjoire – Rameswaram

A superb overview of Southern Indian musical traditions .

This set of 3 CDs is a remarkable testimony to the traditional music of Southern India.

 The first CD, recorded in the oldest concert hall in Cochin, presents Kathakali singing, a form of theatre that combines drama, music and dance, in which different deities appear in episodes from the Mahabharata.  It continues with different vina excerpts, a kind of lute and the oldest classical instrument in Indian music.

The second CD was recorded in Tanjore, the birthplace of Carnatic music, with one of the masters of the vina, accompanied by a tabla virtuoso.

The final CD is a recording of three musicians from the Rameswaram Temple playing the thavil, an ancient percussion instrument, and long nadaswaram trumpets, followed by a group playing chenda drums and bronze chengila gongs

CD 1 – Cochin (chants du kathakali et vînâ classique)
Durée totale : 75’33
1 - Vandana Sholokamo 3’20
2, 3,4 - Kerathamo Mahabaratha 8’44
5 - Raga Mohanamo 4’18
6 - Mahabharata 2’04
7 - Krishna 5’10
8, 9 - Sudamaye Saraswathi 12’32
10, 11 - Adamo 10’27
12, 13 - Bhajan 19’09
14, 15 - Bhagyatha 9’47
 

CD2 – Tanjore (vînâ, musique carnatique)
Durée totale : 77’
1 - Gana pathhu varuvai 3’04

2 - Sita malam yanak shiramayam 3’33

3 - Pulan kozhal 4’36

4 - Allaipazhutha kara 4’17

5 - Shanikara baranam 3’58

6 - Sharayar poyikal 4’40

7 - Janani janani 4’24

8 - Maratha mali mamuni 5’17

9 - Aiyura padiy 4’47

10 - Nakama 3’40

11 - Shamaja vara kamana 3’03

12 - Manasa san charara 4’05

13 - Ragu vamsha sutha 4’05

14 - Pon onru kandan 2’50

15 - Anthan manoky vilaadal 4’33

16 - Nilavo mallak 4’52

17 - Madu podu 2’48

18 - Mukunta mukunta 2’18

19 - Masila ona kattali 3’02

20 - Entrio endiyta anatham 3’04

CD 3

Durée totale : 76’19

Rameswaram (musiciens du temple : thavil, trompe nadashwaram)

1 - Hamsatoney 4’42

2 - Amritavarsham 4’19

3 - Ravatty Ragam 4’23

4 - Beekda Ragam 3’19

5 - Sinthbiraaviy 2’41

6 - Nada Namakil 6’29

7 - Panava raliy 5’55

Cherai (tambour chenda, gong chengilam)

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 enchaînés, puis 16 - Singari Melam 44’25