Rama Sreerama

Srinivas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 12, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Real World
• ASIN: B000000HP8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #274,384 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gajavadhana

2. Maryaadakadaya

3. Saranambhava Karuna

4. Rama Sreerama (Ragam, Thanam, Pallavi) & Ragamalika

5. Ganamurthy

6. Kaliyugavaradana

Editorial Reviews

"The child prodigy of Carnatic music who has taken the mandolin - an instrument unknown to India - to unique classical heights." Distributed by Real World Records.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Bliss, April 23, 2002

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mirrortime (Central, Oregon) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Rama Sreerama (Audio CD)

I first heard of Upalappu Srinivas from an on-line interview with George Harrison in Feb, 2001. Someone asked George what he had been listening to lately. He said about Mr. Srinivas, "Eddie Van Halen eat your heart out". He meant it too. The mandolin playing is very very fast. At times serene and dream like. The title track is 30 minutes of pure bliss. I might add that the drums and violin are absolutely amazing also. If your even remotely interested in Indian music (This is from South India) I would highly suggest picking this one up. Also check out "Dawn Raga".

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ecstatic and emotional rendering of complicated ragas, July 2, 2000

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arun (FL, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rama Sreerama (Audio CD)

It seems to me that this genius was born with a Mandolin in his hand. His elegance and simplicity yet emotive and ecstatic mettle in handling complicated Carnatic Ragas clearly identifies the prodigy in him. Consider the 4th piece which is a RTP Ragamalika composed by the musician himself. The Mandolin master starts off with Kiravani, a Melakartha and is an ever-touching raga, slowly he slides into a less popular yet complicated raga and a derivative of the 27th Melakartha (Sarasaangi) called NalinaKaanthi. Having touched the soft scales of this raga, he then decides to dwell deep into the complicated well and plays a very unpopular yet profound raga by name Sucharithra (a mela again), followed by the scintillating dusk raga, Revathi and finally gets back to Kiravani. The next piece is also fantastic and a complex Thyagaraja keerthana in the raga Gaanamurthee (3rd mela).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars By No Means a Gimmick, October 12, 2000

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supastar (brooklyn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rama Sreerama (Audio CD)

The mandolin, when he plays it, seems so suited to Carnatic music, with its inflections and voice, and though I'm no classical music scholar, and only enjoy it in the mood it evokes, it's absouloutely lovely, very stirring, very beautiful. Another artist who plays carnatic music on a "untraditional" instrument, is Kadri Gopalnath, whose saxaphone is amazing.