Carnatic Indian Guitar - Brova Barama - Sukumar Prasad
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Sukumar Prasad, the first guitarist to play South Indian Carnatic classical music on the electric guitar tears through his rendition of the standard Brova Barama by Tyagaraja set to Adi tal in rag bahudari. Likely from the 1970's.
Sukumar Prasad is considered to be one of a handful to start playing carnatic music on electric guitar in India and excelled at it. Back in the 70s when he started, there was no rock'n roll or independent music scene in India. He toured to US and Australia in 1987 and 1988 respectively. According to me there are very few who can play carnatic so well on the guitar like prasad . I am related to Mr Prasad and I never had a chance to meet him personally. I am really hoping he would come back to the music scene, contribute and inspire more youngsters to start playing carnatic on the guitar.
He is using a stratocaster. And his tone is absolutely brilliant.
Prasad, If you are reading this, consider coming back to the scene.
Hello Yeshwanth!! Can you please tell me where is Mr Sukumar now? Will owe you a lot for a any sort of information. Thanks in advance brother.
BassNinja Bhogi the last we know of he took sanyasam and went to melmaruvathur. Nadi moolam&Rishi moolam theydakoodathu.
Bass Ninja85 Thank you so much for your reply. Sukumar is such a legend. Would be awesome if someone could interview him. Do you also know the whereabouts of Sukumar Parasad's student V Vijay Arun? or any videos of his renditions. Any info would be greatly helpful. Thanks a lot. :-)
***** indeed at Melmaruvathur,please do not trouble him or disturb him.
Bass Ninja85 I found a website for Vijay - members.tripod.com/~Vijay_Arun/. Looks dated. Is he the guy you are talking about?
I think he was the one who started it all even before likes of Mandolin Shrinivas and Prasanna. His playing is very clean.
Indian music is the greatest music on the planet. Period. (And this is coming from a Westerner who has never set foot on Indian soil in his life . . . ).
absolutely true, and it also comes from a Westerner, for me it's the music that goes most direct to the heart, and soul
This is played by an Indian on a western instrument
@@venkatanantha Those days it was called Coat'tu vadyam. (Westerners wearing a coat played guitar those days) If you are old enough, you could have heard that term in All India Radio.
Regards.
Sukumar Prasad , Where are you now.
Superb rendition
I had lot of opportunities of enjoying his super carnatic guitar concerts. Unable to locate him for long.
i have just uploaded two songs played by sukumar prasad from my collection - one is 'INTHA CHALAMU - BEGADA VARNAM " and the other is "vathapi ganapathim". also i have uploaded the photograph of Shri.Sukumar prasad.
Listened to both. Huge thanks for this service to music lovers. Regards: Ravi
Begada was an out of the world experience
Wow... Amazing. I remember this photograph from a music cassette back in the very early 80s if I remember right. That cassette contained songs with percussion accompaniment of his brother and violin, his sister. Sivakumar himself was a very handsome young man as seen in the pic uploaded by you. Back then, I use to fantasize myself being line him, so accomplished in the fields he entered and yet be so handsome.
Carnatic music in electric guitar was very novel back then and his play of the instrument was such East candy, I would have played hundreds of times.
Somewhere I remember to have read, he was meted poorly in the Carnatic circles and he got dejected and left the music scene and went abroad.
But his performance will be evergreen in my memory.
I wish him well. He must be in his late 50s. His exit is a true loss to Carnatic music. Like losing Mandolin Srinivas, due to mistreatment like they did to Sivakumar. Luckily with Mandolin Srinivas out didn't happen but it did happen with Sivakumar.
@@guppi277 percussion for this song is by Srimushnam Rajs rao
finally got this on tape!
You should upload a photo(s) of the art.
for me sukumar prasad is unique and none can come close to him. in particular, if you know the meaning of the song "brova bharama" the first note of sukumar prasad will certainly bring out the tears. i don't know how he infused the feelings of Shri.Thyagaraja in his playing. i am at loss that he has given only one cassette and happy to have a copy.
Indeed he is unique!!! Found his music so uplifting, heard innumerable times till audio cassette got worn out..
Ur lucky u had 2 copies. Thanks 4 uploading and making it eternal 👌 💐
As far as I know, only released on cassette + one of only a handful of records of Prasad available. Thanks for posting this.
Thankfully, this masterpiece is available in digital format 🙏. It's really difficult to play Carnatic Music in a Western Instrument. Sukumar Prasad wherever you are...God Bless You. As an ardent fan❤️ of the above rendition, waiting for you to come back and enrich the Carnatic Music with more such renditions🙏
He was my colleague at Pricewaterhouse Chennai, we were together in an assignment for 2 months. Very good looking, soft & well mannered guy. Only later I came to know his prowess in Carnatic Guitar. Incidentally during that time only Mandolin Srinivas also hit the limelight. It's indeed a great loss to Carnatic music that he faded away so early due to mysterious reasons.
Is he a chartered accountant by any chance? Since you mentioned Pricewaterhouse..!
To my knowledge, Shri.Sukumaar Prasad is an alumus of IIT-M in the field of Chemical Engineering.
Very pleasant and devotional while enjoying the Sadguru Sri Tyagaraja's kriti..This proves again that music is divine and doesn't have any boundaries. Mr. Prasad is awesome in his performance. Thanks for upload.
Sad this isn’t on Spotify
I s searching for some music by Prassana and found this.....beautiful......thank you for posting this wonderful music.....
Great. I am going to look for his CD's to buy and play at home. This gentleman is just superb. Much better than Prasanna, Nikhil Joshi, mandolin Srinivas, etc. Somehow Guitar sounds much much better than a Mandolin.My two cents.
I dunno if he was better than Shrini, but he was first.
I had the good fortune to meet Srinivas a few years before his passing at Kennedy center in DC, and introduced myself as a distant relative of Sukumar. To my surprise Srinivas was kind enough to say Prasad was unparalleled, despite his own stature. Speaks to Srinivas' humility!
Some of the best guitar music Ive ever heard. Thanks for uploading. Thanks for other informative comments here.
i know how difficul and mr sukumar prasad has rendered in most excellent way . hats off to him. tit would be to play claasical that too karnatak on a western instrument
VERY NICE PERFORMANCE NAGARAJU GARU
transcendental music of great times!
Wow the first person ever to play Carnatic on the guitar ! Wonder where he is now....
An iconoclast
A very unique sound for sure on the guitar! very melodious!
Super. What a Bahudari....
Absolutely superb!!! I love this. I have another version on guitar by Vijay Kumar. Will upload it. The same song.
வீணையைப் போலக் குழையும் கிடார். அருமை!
உற்சாகமான இசை வணக்கம் செலினா
bahudhari in guittar..............wowwwww
Divine and superb
Nice and relaxing thank you.
wow wonderful I love this raga playing in guitar, sweet and very very nice....
I love sitar music
Best shit to listen to whenever your super high.
+dil rob Leaving aside the merits of good grammar, this music is performed on an electric guitar.
+Mojolang Im sorry.
+Mojolang Thanks for the information mate :)
@Mojolang I'll have to look for it. Will get back asap.
@Mojolang - please change the title to Brova Barama - guitar - Sukumar Prasad
would be great if you upload! thank you
@Mojolang - oh, just that more people will come across it for the song and the instrument as well. Otherwise only people who know sukumar prasad might even look for this. Thanks.
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Absolutely fantastic. Huge thanks.
Thanks for sharing such a rare piece! That was a delight to listen to.
@Mojolang Thanks! :)
i converted that cassette contents to MP3 files, audacity editor.hope to upload the files at the earliest. i am sure you will enjoy.
Please upload them
it's really pity, what a great player! Thank you for a video!
Whoa ! Beautiful !!!!
I've never heard of this Musician, sadly.
#CarnaticMusic
#CarnaticGuitar
Amazing!
Enchanting to say the least. Thanks and God bless you for loading this. Do you have more stuff ?
@HareSrinivasa The PSCompanies channel is great - Prahlad and Ananth are you kids? Very talented, both.
@Mojolang: The recording is from 1987. Sorry to trouble you.
simply wow...
Thanks, Mouli. Really soothing to hear. love it.
This grooves! (This Westerner has.)
Absolutely fantastic rendition
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i have two more songs played by sukumar prasad - begada varnam and vathapi
@kilic this is not a veena, I play a veena and I know. This is guitar!.
@slayersid Prasanna said it was from 1985...do you have the casette info? If so scan it and upload it.
Hey Blake. This is a standard guitar, I'm sure. He's tuned in 5ths (IE 1,5,1,5,1,5). He is just sliding, believe it or not. Prasanna and U. Shrinivas do the same thing. I see you are a Shawn Lane fan. He was a great admirer of this style. Go watch clips of them....
They're not. Dude is missing. No one knows where he is and all his records are out of print.
sounds great! do you know if Sukumar Prasad's records are available somewhere?
@slayersid Why change the name?
What's the instrument that they use,that trippy guitar
would be great, let me know. thank you!
@Kilic: have you even heard a veena? that is definitely not a veena; what he is using is (probably) an electric guitar
Of course it is, it says so in the description ;)
DerEchteBold now i feel like an idiot - _ -'
Hello, uum does anyone know if this is a standard guitar in a standard tuning? If so how in the world is he getting it to sound almost fretless? I know you can do this by sliding but is that what he is doing?
Yes he's sliding over the frets. And the guitar is tuned in the root and fifth. E B E B E B
Pad Rao thank you for your reply. Even though I wrote that comment seven years ago your reply gives me a new Tuning to try.
start a search just like for Sixto Rodriguez...
@slayersid Done and done.
I wish I knew a tiny bit more about this. It SOUNDS like a Stratocaster type guitar, but I am not 100% sure.
* mosquito flying near ear mic*
5: 59 - 6: 04
I'm assuming this is facetious
Go upload the song again with an image you like better.
dei... velaiya paaru da.
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This is not a fucking guitar this is a lute (veena)
Very nice, also, loved Shrinivas' mandolin in 94 and when my son was a baby, but didn't know it was Shrinivas, until finding him on yt, few weeks ago.
I love sitar music
Best shit to listen to whenever your super high.
Fo sure bro!!!!
Bro this not Sitar, its an electric guitar, He played on Stratocaster.
bahudhari in guittar..............wowwwww
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