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MUSIC REVIEW : INDOSOUL

You can buy the album  HERE So for the first time I will be reviewing an instrumental album. For those who listen to carnatic music, they must be well aware of Karthick Iyer’s name. For those who don’t know, Karthick Iyer Live is a collaboration of musicians from diverse musical backgrounds. An electric violin, mridangam, guitar, bass and drums along with vocals form the core. The band breaks down superficial barri­ers between genres, cultures and languages, to bring out the deep commonalities that define IndoSoul. BOUNDLESS ‘Korappu’ is a compositional format in carnatic music where two musicians exchange questions and answers through their instruments. The sound of mridangam greets you as we are treated to a classic solo mridangam piece by Sumesh Narayanan for the first forty seconds of the song, before he concludes with a tihaai and makes way for Karthick on the violins. What follows is simply stunning. We witness a superb jugalbandi between the violin ( R...