Category Archives: Humming Now

I have been listening to raga based music and applying raga concepts to movie songs only for the past 10 years or so. But it surprises me how a stunning variety of movie songs I like belong to the same … Continue reading →

Its surprising I crossed 12 episodes of Humming Now without touching upon a beautiful ragam – Sindhu Bhairavi. I vividly remember being addicted to the MLV’s rendition of Venkatachala Nilayam, long before I knew I was interested in classical music. … Continue reading →

Around the same time tomorrow, I would have returned from (my hopefully terrific time) listening to Rama Varma’s rendition of classical music. Rama Varma is one of the prolific artists I discovered in the recent past. His level of precision, … Continue reading →

For this episode of Humming Now, I take a raga which is associated with a feeling of majesty and an undertone of devotion. Its Hindustani equivalent is called Puriya Dhanashree. In Carnatic, it is Panthuvarali. I dont know enough to … Continue reading →

I learnt from an interview by Zakir Hussain that one of the phases of learning classical music in India – in certain traditions/schools that is – was a phase where you learn the singing/playing of one raga continuously for 48 … Continue reading →

As though it wasn’t clear before, let me re-state. I never learnt music, but its amazing how much just listening can teach you. Especially in the context of Indian classical music, listening can teach you a great deal, even with … Continue reading →

After more than a year of wait, I finally got my DVD copy of Margazhi Raagam – the cinema format music concert by TM Krishna and Bombay Jayashree. I like the idea and I think this is how every music … Continue reading →

It was more than 10 years ago when I listened to this album called Colours with Kunnakudi on Violin, Zakir on Tabla, Sivamani on Drums and Dilip Kumar (now AR Rehman) on keyboards. One song particularly intrigued me, that I … Continue reading →