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Thursday, December 30, 2010

The color of raga..

I am not sure if every human or say musician feels this way.. Oh BTW i am SS for blog, who is a musician, a veena artiste to be precise.. This post is to justify the title of this blog. So, coming to the topic, Raaga means a tune. I have always felt that there are happy raagas which paint orange/yellow and sober raagas which paint maroon or a dark shade.. For example, Reeti Gowla I think paints a mild yellowish orange.. especially the phrase with which I would usually start GA MA NI DA MA NI NI SA..  but its not necessary that all raagas would make one think of a color.. If you take Aahiri, I would mostly crumble down to tears with the bhakthi bhava of that Raagam. Maayamma is an awesome composition, needless to say..

Let me leave here with my thoughts drenched in Aahiri.