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Wow. Very nice piece. I haven’t heard of Coimbatore Thayi before. What a great story…thank you very much for bringing her story and her music to light. It is wonderful that her music was recorded a century back and is still available in some archive. We should be thankful to everyone who’s had a role to play in preserving this and other such recordings over so many decades.
The embedded Javali and Arutpa links seem to link back to the Maa Janaki file. I hope the links can be corrected?
Vikram Sampat is doing a commendable job in collecting/ cataloging our old music. What a pity that a few years still deeper into the past, and everything will suddenly fall quiet and get engulfed in the dark, because there was no gramophone then! Life thrived even then with all its beautiful beauties, color and melodies, but we will never know what Tansen or Haridas sounded like! All of the nineteenth century to the entire seventeenth, sixteenth centuries…. So, so many good singers must have lived all through those ages whom we will never hear sing. Sigh!
But why Savarkar?! When Vikram Sampat is so immersed in music which transcends all human segregation, all religious boundaries, how come he is fascinated by a man who embodied exactly the opposite values, of narrow emphases, of pigeonholing of humans? Well, may be his book of Savarkar will not be merely idolatry.
Wow. Very nice piece. I haven’t heard of Coimbatore Thayi before. What a great story…thank you very much for bringing her story and her music to light. It is wonderful that her music was recorded a century back and is still available in some archive. We should be thankful to everyone who’s had a role to play in preserving this and other such recordings over so many decades.
The embedded Javali and Arutpa links seem to link back to the Maa Janaki file. I hope the links can be corrected?
Great service you are doing Vikram. Thanks for giving music clips for us to appreciate great voice.
Vikram Sampat is doing a commendable job in collecting/ cataloging our old music. What a pity that a few years still deeper into the past, and everything will suddenly fall quiet and get engulfed in the dark, because there was no gramophone then! Life thrived even then with all its beautiful beauties, color and melodies, but we will never know what Tansen or Haridas sounded like! All of the nineteenth century to the entire seventeenth, sixteenth centuries…. So, so many good singers must have lived all through those ages whom we will never hear sing. Sigh!
But why Savarkar?! When Vikram Sampat is so immersed in music which transcends all human segregation, all religious boundaries, how come he is fascinated by a man who embodied exactly the opposite values, of narrow emphases, of pigeonholing of humans? Well, may be his book of Savarkar will not be merely idolatry.