Karnatic Harmonium

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The wonderful harmonium vidwan Muthunathesa Bhagvatar was also touring with Swamy Haridhos. This was recorded at the house of violin K. Shivakumar with him and my guru P.S. Devarajan in a very informal setting. I think the combination of harmonium and violin makes for a great sound.

An extremely rare recording of Karnatic classical music on harmonium with the great Muthunathesa Bhagvatar accompanied on violin by a young K. Shivakumar and by Mridangam Vidwan P.S. Devarajan. This is a lossless mp3 album, very unique, lovely and special sounding Karnatic classical music, recorded more than 40 years back.

Here is Intajaala in Begda:

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1. Begda (3:17)
2. Hamsadwani (20:15)
3. Sriranjani (16:28)
4. Puria-Kalyan - ragam (8:58)
5. Puria-Kalyan - Adi (12:15)

Muthunathesa Bhagvatar, harmonium
K. Shivakumar, violin
P.S. Devarajan, mridangam

Recorded in Bombay on january 3, 1968

Produced by Bengt Berger

Released by Country & Eastern, august 2009

Cover by Jon Edergren, Electric Boogie

Available in lossless mp3 format only.

All three musicians on this album plays on the Swamy Haridhos albums ce14 and cex14.
Mridangam vidwan P.S. Devarajan has an album of his own, cex03 Mridangam lessons in Adi Talam.