Ramani, Dr. N. - Live In Madras
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08-FY8033
Dr. N. Ramani was born in 1934 & first began to play the bamboo flute (known as a venu and regarded as sacred to Krishna), which is smaller than that played in northern India, under his grandfathers guidance when he was still a small child. Ramani's musical training continued under the tutelage of Mali (who died in 1986) an eccentric maestro of genius, who intuited in the infant Ramani a musician of genius and persuaded him to follow him to Madras (now Chennai) to perfect and sharpen his playing technique. Although learning considerably from Malis teaching, Ramani has been able to evolve his own style detaching himself from the original model to arrive at a refined and highly personal language of his own, which has brought him to a position of pre-eminence among his countrys fellow artists, even more so considering that the bamboo flute is one of the most important traditional Indian instruments. Live in Madras is testimony of his ability during live performance to maintain the high levels of concentration required to execute the Karnatic ragas featured, which generally tend to be of shorter duration than those of Hindustani music. Worthy of note too are the combinations of instruments: Pitchumanis veena (forbear of the sitar) and the violin of Bhaskaran are able to mingle intelligently and harmonically with the sound produced by Ramani flute, supported by the solid percussion of the gatham and mridangam.