I have finally done it. At long last. I actually brought my recorder with me and recorded last Friday's VidyA concert that took place at the Red Poppy Art House as part of YBCA (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) Bay Area Now series. The recorder was actually placed behind us, because there was no other place to put it, but you can still hear everything pretty well.

I felt the concert went quite well musically and I think its mainly a result of trying to keep the songs fresh every time and take chances with the compositions.

I decided to make a part of it available online for you to download and enjoy. This is the first part of the 2nd set. A new ragamalika (multiple raga) exploration that segways into Kauveri, which happens to be another song with multiple ragas. Click the link below to download (right-click to save it).

Nine / Kauveri (VidyA live 9/19/08)

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Just a quick reminder -- a couple great VidyA concerts coming up.

Friday, September 19, 2008. 8pm.

VidyA at Yerba Buena Bay Area Now series. San Francisco, CA.
Located at 2698 Folsom St at the Red Poppy Art House (23rd and Folsom).
More info here.

Friday, September 26, 08 - VidyA at Hillside Club. Berkeley, CA. This is a beautiful venue in the East Bay. If you haven't been, make sure to come! This will feature Eric Vogler as a guest on bass.

2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley 94709
Info: (510) 845-1350
More Info here.

Here are some pictures to leave you with.












Take care,

Prasant

Labels: concerts, vidya

Remember the other interview I hadn't seen yet? Well, the person who interviewed me, Vanipriya, just sent me a copy of the interview.

Interview with "The Score" music magazine August 08: Online | PDF | Photo (jpg)

Vanipriya, as it turns out, studies Carnatic music with violinist Delhi P. Sunderrajan, a great violinist who played with me on my Duality album.

The interview was for a new magazine in India called "The Score." When I saw the magazine, I was pretty amazed because I had never seen a magazine cover such a wide range of genres. It had everything from Alicia Keys, to Chennai indie rock bands, to Carnatic music and everything in between.

 Picture L-R: Trichur Narendran, V. Suresh, Prasant, B.U. Ganeshprasad

The article briefly covers the concert I did in Chennai at Sri Muthu Venkata Subba Rao Hall and then
 has some quick Q & A. If you didn't catch reviews and other stuff on that concert, see this post.

To coincide with our new VidyA CD release, we finally got some photos taken by a great Bay Area photographer, Nate Keck (who also happens to be a friend of the Red Poppy).

I think we were able to get a few nice shots -- the whole thing was natural with very limited actual posing for the pictures. That was great for me, because posing is not my forte. I think David has it down though.

Anyways, I uploaded all the color pictures to flickr, so please check them out and tell us your favorites in the comments or via e-mail. It hard to decide looking at so many pictures of ourselves. We eventually have to choose two or three that would be used for most purposes.

View the pictures here.

Here is my favorite: L-R: Sameer Gupta, David Ewell, Prasant Radhakrishnan.


Thoughts?

If you are in the Bay Area, make to sure to check out two exciting concerts we have this month! Info here.

Labels: concerts, photos, vidya