Sanjay Subramanyan’s Season of experiments continues

Sanjay Subramanyan’s Carnatic travel has travelled done galore phases. However, the 1 changeless facet has been experimentation.

His performance mightiness person been acquainted to his regular rasikas, but others needed to retune to his style. There were nary ghana oregon important ragas but the ‘Viriboni’ varnam (Bhairavi).

Even much striking was the funny trade-off betwixt experimentative expressions and pleasant sound. That said, Sanjay continues to support precise precocious sruti fidelity, dependable scope and agelong sustains. Time has not dented those abilities.

The varnam was followed by a blitzkrieg of ‘Ongi ulagalanda’ (Arabhi, Andal) with crisp swaras. Shades of Sanjay’s penchant for caller syllables and phrases were evident successful the Ritigowla raga and overmuch much successful aboriginal pieces. ‘Paripalayamam’ (Swati Tirunal, Rupakam) was accepted by his standards. Suryakantham has 1 well-known kriti, ‘Muddumomu’ by Tyagaraja and adjacent that is sung rarely. The alapana was intelligent and for the astir part, Sanjay strove to underline its unsocial flavour. ‘Muddumomu’ rendered successful a slower gait was charismatic — a cleanable impervious of Sanjay’s experimentative mind. The kriti’s prominence successful a performance came alive, including successful a crafty niraval.

Hemavati was picked for the RTP. There was immoderate power of M.D. Ramanathan’s vocal effects and Madurai Somu’s signatures. Unique arsenic they were, immoderate of the syllables were intelligibly unfriendly to the ear.

Sanjay has ever enactment other beingness into his tanam singing with aggravated raga bhava and this 1 was nary different. ‘Tirumuruga thiruvarul tha’ successful Adi 2 kalai astatine ‘sama’ eduppu was good rendered, amidst trends of analyzable tala structures successful pallavis. S. Varadarajan toed mostly his ain convictions. His alapanas embraced time-tested contours.

Sanjay’s ‘Ambara chidambara’ successful Janaranjani (tuned by him), which has an charismatic chittaswaram, ‘Ramasami doothan’ successful Bahudari (Arunachala Kavi) and ‘Kani nilam vendum’ rendered successful his imitable benignant warmed the hearts of his ardent supporters. Credit should spell to Sanjay for gathering a marque with beardown philharmonic worth and repertoire.

Varadarajan and Neyveli Venkatesh (mridangam) were, arsenic usual, successful cleanable sync with Sanjay’s singing arsenic the trio look to stock a peculiar bond. Sanjay demonstrated that his large departures from accepted vocal euphony tenets proceed to find a location amongst his flock. For the rest, listening is arsenic overmuch an experimentation arsenic for him successful producing that music.