A clip from last night’s concert at the Guruvayur temple for the Chembai Sangeetholsavam with Vidwans Sri HN Bhaskar and Sri Patri Satish Kumar.
Below is my schedule for December Carnatic concerts:
1st Dec 2022- 6:45 PM- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (Mylapore) -CHENNAI
2nd Dec 2022-7:00 PM- Chennaiyil Sangeeth Utsav at Vani Mahal (T Nagar) – CHENNAI
3rd Dec 2022-4:30 PM – Karthick Fine Arts (Mylapore) – CHENNAI
10th Dec 2022-6 PM – Brahma Gana Sabha (Mylapore) – CHENNAI
17th Dec 2022 – Sawai Gandharva – PUNE
18th Dec 2022-4:00 PM – Bharat Kalachar (T Nagar) – CHENNAI
23rd Dec 2022-6:30 PM – Parthasarathy Swami Sabha (Mylapore) – CHENNAI
24th Dec 2022-7:00 PM – Indian Fine Arts (Mylapore) – CHENNAI
28th Dec 2022-7:00 PM – Narada Gana Sabha (Mylapore) – CHENNAI
30th Dec 2022- 7:00 PM – Tamizh Isai Sangam – CHENNAI
And for those of y’all not familiar with Carnatic music, in this clip we’re doing a form of improvisation called Kalpana Swaram, basically stringing together notes of a specific Raga (the raga we are jamming on here is called Karaharapriya) in the rhythmic structure of a composition (the composition being performed here is Appan Avadaritha composed by Papanasam Sivan. Language is Tamil and tala is Adi)
Next concert is for Brahma Gana Sabha this coming Saturday at 6pm at Rasika Ranjani Sabha main hall in Mylapore (ticket link in bio)
An excerpt of “Enna Thavam Seithanai” from last week’s concert at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan with Vidwans Sri S Varadarajan, Sri Patri Satish Kumar (@patri_satish_kumar) and Sri Anirudh Athreya (@anirudhathreya)
Clip captured by @shreyas.shankar
All love
Coimbatore, im hearing that 35,000 of you came out to the show last night. Energy was legendary.
I’m humbled and hype.
All love, no hate
Shouts to the brothers @sanjeevtmusic @tapassnaresh @kebajer @leon.james @ramkuu @nikhilvpai @soheldantes @vjkaycee @vinod_ld #pops and all those involved in putting this together
1) y’all clapping along to Maruvarthai (captured by @kebajer)
2) Srivalli
3) Parayuvan
4) High on Love
CHENNAI show is on Jan 7. Ticket link in bio, get em before they sell out. Bout to be crazy
Coimbatore, im hearing that 35,000 of you came out to the show last night. Energy was legendary.
I’m humbled and hype.
All love, no hate
Shouts to the brothers @sanjeevtmusic @tapassnaresh @kebajer @leon.james @ramkuu @nikhilvpai @soheldantes @vjkaycee @vinod_ld #pops and all those involved in putting this together
1) y’all clapping along to Maruvarthai (captured by @kebajer)
2) Srivalli
3) Parayuvan
4) High on Love
CHENNAI show is on Jan 7. Ticket link in bio, get em before they sell out. Bout to be crazy
Coimbatore, im hearing that 35,000 of you came out to the show last night. Energy was legendary.
I’m humbled and hype.
All love, no hate
Shouts to the brothers @sanjeevtmusic @tapassnaresh @kebajer @leon.james @ramkuu @nikhilvpai @soheldantes @vjkaycee @vinod_ld #pops and all those involved in putting this together
1) y’all clapping along to Maruvarthai (captured by @kebajer)
2) Srivalli
3) Parayuvan
4) High on Love
CHENNAI show is on Jan 7. Ticket link in bio, get em before they sell out. Bout to be crazy
Coimbatore, im hearing that 35,000 of you came out to the show last night. Energy was legendary.
I’m humbled and hype.
All love, no hate
Shouts to the brothers @sanjeevtmusic @tapassnaresh @kebajer @leon.james @ramkuu @nikhilvpai @soheldantes @vjkaycee @vinod_ld #pops and all those involved in putting this together
1) y’all clapping along to Maruvarthai (captured by @kebajer)
2) Srivalli
3) Parayuvan
4) High on Love
CHENNAI show is on Jan 7. Ticket link in bio, get em before they sell out. Bout to be crazy
Happy Maha Shivaratri
Champeya gaurardha sharira kayai
Karpura gaurardha sharirakaya
Dhammilla-kayai cha jathadharaya
Namah Shivayai cha Namah Shivaya
Sending you all love!
(Side note/reminder to self: I gotta switch out the battery on the alarm)
The Blues genre has always felt to me like one of the rawest music spaces to exist. Naturally gritty, heartfelt and vulnerable. Lends itself to the sometimes erratic ebb and flow of human emotional landscapes. One second you might be resting on a low note and the next you find yourself hollering at the height of your vocal range. Raw and unfettered.
I started listening to BB King in high school, bought a CD of his that had 3 o clock blues on it, fell in love immediately but never tried singing it. Fast forward to fall 2008, my first semester at @berkleecollege, quite nervous tbh because I was amidst a ton of insane musicians for the first time in my life. A bunch of us were sitting in the hallway of our dorms after a Friday night out. The homie @ellistucker started strumming some blues chords on his acoustic and I belted out BB King’s 3 o clock Blues. It was one of the most fulfilling and deeply affirming sensations I’ve ever felt.
Fast forward another few years to 2012. I’d met @arrahman Sir a few months earlier when I was in Chennai Dec 2011. When he emailed about a song for a Mani Sir film, I was crazy excited. When I realised that the song’s genre was the Blues, I honestly couldn’t contain my excitement. I’ve spoken about this many times but AR Sir dreaming up a blues number with Tamil folk lyrics is so magical to me. Adiye was born. Bridges built in the most magical, powerful of ways.
shout out the Blues
All love
Love to everyone listening
Artists and musicians gathered in Los Angeles and performed songs with the aim of Raising Human Consciousness through music in support of @ConsciousPlanet’s #SaveSoil movement. Save Soil is a global effort to align human activity to be supportive of nature and all life on our planet.
@SidSriram @thenesthollywood
Action Now: savesoil.org
@sidsriram
@cocoasarai
@coryhenry
@jamesfauntleroyii
@thenesthollywood
Eyes closed
PC: @anilm24
A little clip from a secret show we did in Toronto at @thedrakehotel couple nights ago, playing songs from the unreleased album. Forever grateful and inspired.
The name my parents gave me is Sidharth, and I never really thought to look into what it means until recently. I looked it up and the definition I found was “one who has accomplished a goal or aim”. Which then leads me to the question, what is the goal? The journey continues.
Love to brothers @arsononly, @ajabaum, @dealdrugger, @evanguymandude, @gdfx, @hurlybiscuits. Love to @myrasita, @trauzzi, all the @umusic and @defjam fam
The storm will come quietly
Clip captured by @ayanna.allen_
Drop a comment with one word that comes to mind when you look at this picture
Feels like there’s honesty of spirit and honesty of intellect. Both working in conjunction is powerful//
Nothing’s normal, it never will be, it never was
Several moments pass and fade to camouflage
Pre-save “Do the Dance” (link in bio)
All love
Next concert: Brahma Gana Sabha on Dec. 10 at Rasika Ranjani Sabha main hall at 6pm (ticket link in bio)
In music, especially with a form like Carnatic music, you keep exploring and discovering new spaces, seeds, portals, etc.
It’s constant, you wade away from shore into the ocean and find yourself in deeper waters. sometimes you get lost for a bit and then re-adjust.
But some pieces just feel like home. This Raga Subhapantuvaralli feels like home for me. I first fell in love with it when I was around 12 years old, listening to a CD (haha, this was in 2002/2003) of a live @sanjaysub sir concert that left me completely spellbound. I remember immediately insisting to my mom that I had to learn the piece he had sung in the CD, Ennallurake. Soon thereafter I discovered a recording of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer singing Sri Satyanarayanam which pulled me into the Raga even more. Every time I get to sing Subha Pantuvaralli on stage feels like a return to a deep sense of warmth, grounding and excitement. Here’s an excerpt of Alapana in Subha Pantuvaralli from last night’s concert for Kartik Fine Arts
Video captured by @shreyas.shankar
All love
Felt like singing some Dylan
#sidsriram #sings #songs
I’m doing something that I’ve never done before
Strangely in some moments
I feel like in a distant, faint dream
I’ve experienced all this already
Maybe it never made sense before
maybe this time it will
Do The Dance – This Friday 3.31.23
What is the dance?
I don’t forget my passwords when the compass deep below my chest feels balanced
I don’t forget the meaning of my name
Large glass windows on a cold sunny day
Watch the wind blow the clouds away
There’s a curious nature to the ways we move
Coordinated and chaotic at once
Accidentally fall into steps of symmetry
Fall out before it’s even begun
A dance as messy as its beautiful
triumphant and a little broken too
What’s a painting without a few accidental strokes
Like scars hidden from plain view
A dance to reveal not a dance to avoid
A celebration of it all from heartbreak to joy
I can see the mountain tops are not all that far from here
A surrender to something so profoundly unknown
Vaguely familiar too, like the essence of home
I can feel that glow and it’s not too far from here
As of late I’ve been experiencing moments where the compass below my chest feels balanced
‘One who has accomplished an aim’
Still desperate to know what the aim is
the wind blows the clouds away
Find and build new bridges
Do The Dance live performance from The Sun Rose.
Song releases this Friday 3.31.23
All love, no hate
Green lights your green eyes I fall back
Pre-save “Do the Dance” (link in bio)
🎥
@bytanima
@johnnytwotimez
Boundless • 3.8.23 with the inimitable @coryhenry on the Harpejji, at @truthstudios. What a deep joy it was to go on this journey with brother Cory.
Spontaneous exploration and discovery, nothing planned in advance, moving from a place of subconscious intuition. Here’s an excerpt that felt especially meaningful to me:
I’ve been thinking a whole lot about being alone
I spend a lot of time by myself, with myself intentionally, just to be able to lock back in to hear the conversation going on within
You get into a routine of doing that and its uh…
You meet some very interesting versions of yourself,
You get to recall, heal… but the way the pathway of healing
What’s so beautiful and reassuring, and it’s been reaffirmed to me more and more
especially in recent times
Is the pathway of healing always brings you back to wanting to connect with people
Wanting to share in deep emotions, conversations, just connections
Rabbit holes are so funny because you don’t know how long they’re going to go for
And you don’t know when the end is going to be, there’s no real light at the end of a tunnel
You just find yourself out of it
And to find yourself out of a rabbit hole and to be connecting with beautiful people
To share in energy that feels genuine and authentic and essential is the most hopeful feeling ever
I don’t know if it’s a cliche but there’s a whole lot of negativity that flows around
And to find these portals in the process of that is beautiful
Captured by @shotbystarks
All love, no hate
I still vividly remember my second day ever in Minneapolis, being in Ryan Olson’s studio with him, Chris Bierden, Justin Vernon and Aaron Baum. As they landed on this chord progression, there was this magical, palpable joy pulsing through the room. The same joy flowed powerfully through every phase of creating this song. Making music with people you love is one of the truest joys in life. Lots more to come
Drop a comment below with one word that comes time when you listen to the song.
Produced by the unassuming mastermind @arsononly (with additional production by @alexepton). Mixed by @love_burg, mastered by @huntleymiller
Bass: @cbierden
Keys: @ajabaum
Acoustic guitar: @blobtower
Electric guitar: @evanguymandude
Drum programming: @lazerbeak
Choir: Latha Sriram’s SLGV Choir (recorded by Will Chason)
Horns: @carm_band
Piano: the late great legend Derrick Lee (recorded by Mark Nevers)
Pedal steel: Pete Finney (recorded by Mark Nevers)
Additional lyric writing: @sophiaeris, @velvet_negroni, @arsononly
Artwork by @erictimothycarlson
Animators: @oliseforel, @sunbronx
Label: @defjam
All love, no hate
“Do The Dance” my upcoming single, out everywhere soon.
Fault lines older than sunshine, covered in gold
Still don’t know how I’m getting home
Pre-Save (in bio) for a teaser and a handwritten note 🏵️
All love, no hate
Artwork designed by @erictimothycarlson
Beloved freaks of a stumbling world, how’re you doin out there?
The sky’s as blue as it’s ever been. The hardest pills to swallow heal us, don’t they?
Don’t be afraid to admit that Drops of Jupiter still makes you cry, because it’s the first song you fell in love to in the 6th grade
She laughed easily and felt like the distant glimpses of safety
And no matter what anyone said, that love was real and curious and beautiful and awe inspiring
Deeply fractured human spirit, do you remember the source point that led to a spark that led to creations of new universes
Deeply loved fractured heart, why do you run from things that nourish you?
Keep me away from everything cynical
Cynical kills the soul
Keep me away from everything cynical
Cynical kills the world
Beloved breaths of a cycle’s end, how’re you doing?
