Comments on: Am I hearing Sindhu Bhairavi?

By: Sripathi

Sripathi — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:56:20 +0000

Uday from rasikas.org clarifies:

“Not at all unusual to detect phrases/flavors of Sindhu Bhairavi when listening to Dhenuka.

The two raagas differ in aarohana and avaraohana by a mere swara, the N. Orthodox Sindhu Bhairavi has the same A/A as Todi except that the notes, particularly G and N, are sung without the gamaka. SB has N2 and Dhenuka N3. In Dhenuka too the G (i.e., G2) is sung without gamaka. So the first 6 notes S R1 G2 M1 P D1 are identical. How can we NOT detect similarities from time to time ?!

In addition, it is permissible to briefly touch N3 in SIndhu Bhairavi, esp. in alapanas. Hindustani musicians such as Ali AKbar Khan did that delightfully. Phrases such as

S R1 G2 S R1 N3 S

Under these circumstances it brings it even closer to Dhenuka.”

http://rasikas.org/viewtopic.php?pid=45661#p45661

By: Nivedita

Nivedita — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:34:36 +0000

Yeah, there’s a slight Sindhubhairavi flavor! Interesting, the way he subtly modifies the gamakams to make it sound like other ragams!

By: Sakthi Balan

Sakthi Balan — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:45:14 +0000

Sri, Yes i fact you are true. There is a little flavor of Sindhubhairavi when he sings those phrases.

May I know where the clip by MMI is from

By: Nivedita

Nivedita — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:35:48 +0000

Sh. TRS does add a distinct punnAgavarALi flavor – except the Ni in punnAgavarALi is different from the Ni in dhEnuka.

Nivedita

By: Sakthi Balan

Sakthi Balan — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:23:58 +0000

In fact I heard a little bit of Punnagavarali (when he sings…sa ri ga ga ri sa ni ni ……sa ri ga ga ri ri sa). I am not finding Sindhubhairavi thou.

Kalpanaswara in general good but he misses many swara stanas.

But Dhenuka is a good raga I like it and Theliye leru rama is a too good song.