Taking Thirukkural verses to the world

‘The Thirukkural 1330: Musical Ethos’, by siblings Lydian Nadhaswaram and Amirthavarshini Nadhaswaram, featuring much than a 1000 singers from crossed the world, was released successful September. The seeds of the task were sown a decennary ago, erstwhile Amirthavarshini was 12 and Lydian, nine, but the existent enactment began lone connected September 6, 2023.

All the 1,330 kurals (Tamil couplets) person been presented arsenic a azygous enactment that runs for 22 hours, covering implicit 200 styles and genres, including Western classical, Carnatic, Hindustani, Jazz, Blues, Symphonic, Acapella, Indian fusion, Pop, Rap and Electronic. The property of the singers ranged from 3 to 94. Each verse is presented with its meaning and a succinct Tamil synopsis written by Shakthivaasan.

The extremity of the task is that the Thirukkural and its indepth meaning tin beryllium enjoyed and understood done music.

Multi-instrumentalist Lydian achieved planetary popularity astatine the property of 13 erstwhile helium won the American contention The World’s Best, and aboriginal performed connected The Ellen DeGeneres Show. For this project, Lydian played, recorded, sound-mixed, and mastered each the verses, acceptable to euphony by Amirthavarshini, who is besides a flautist and singer.

The squad is besides putting unneurotic 1330 lyrical videos, with English renditions and subtitles, truthful that audiences the satellite implicit tin link with Thiruvalluvar.