Yes, I understand that it's not scat singing. The title is meant to convey an approximation of what Konnakol is so that a westerner unfamiliar with it might be interested in checking it out.
Konnakol (also spelled Konokol, Konakkol) (Tamil: கொன்னக்கோல்) is the art of performing percussion syllables vocally in South Indian music, the Carnatic music (South Indian classical) performance art of vocal percussion. Konnakol is the spoken component of solkattu, which refers to a combination of konnakol syllables spoken while simultaneously counting the tala (meter) with the hand.[1] It is comparable[citation needed] in some respects to bol in Hindustani music, but allows the composition, performance or communication of rhythms. Sri Thetakudi Harihara Subash Chandran is a well-known proponent. (norththreesevenzerooneonesevensix westzerozeroeightzerozeroonesixfive)
I have this dvd...probably the most remarkable music dvd I've ever see, and I've seen a whole lot. The best parts are simply seeing how much Shawn and Jonas get into what they're doing. Its all about the love of it, and nothing else for them. RIP Shawn.
yeah my friend had to studying world music at the UofM told me that before playing a song on the drums they have to be able to sing the parts, that way they know exactly what to play, it's like memorizing sheet music almost
The end of the piece is a well known carnatic classical teehai. It's been used in many rhythmic structures, and if I'm not wrong, the shakti record had Vikku Vinayakramji (selva ganesh's father) who performed this teehai.
@conqa: Well, most members of this group (including the two white guys not singing) have played with McLaughlin. The Indian guy to the left is V. Selvaganesh who played in Remember Shakti. But as cashberg says, this is also traditional Carnatic music (konnakol) from South India.
I've been myself learning the konnakol for the past few years, and I know how much practice it takes... ;) It's always such a pleasure to listen to you guys! Bravo! Cheers, Raphaëlle Brochet
thank you so much for uploading this ive been looking for these two for years. and as i didnt know their names googling gagagagadum doesnt really work. zed-x
Comparing Konnakkol as Indian Scat Singing is like equating Veena/Sitar with Guitar or Mridangam/Tabla with Drums. While many resort to this analogy in the pretext of convenience, it is both inaccurate and unjustified. Beatboxing, Scat Singing and the entire range of Vocal Percussions are new age inventions which are undoubtedly interesting, unique & entertaining in their own ways. However Konnakkol is a distinguished classical art form with profound meaning to each and every syllable, unsurpassed in stature, unrivaled in complexity and unparalleled in its depth & range.
i was waiting for the guitars to join in ....at one point it just sounded like he was saying take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it
If I remember correctly, each of those syllables corresponds to a type of hit on the tabla, an Indan drum instrument. So not only can they sing the syllables, but they can play them as well. This video shows what I'm talking about: /watch?v=Joyk_EMtzn0
That's true for the North Indian counterpart of this. In the NI classical tradition, those 'bols' are syllables that represent the various tabla strikes. This is from the South Indian tradition, in which tabla is not a major percussion instrument. In the SI tradition, the main rhythmic/percussive accompaniment is the mrdanga, but the syllables don't even necessarily represent the mrdanga strikes here. In the SI tradition, the art of vocal percussion is not representative of anything. It's treated as a thing unto itself. You can transcribe a Konnakkol performance into a mrdanga (or any other drum) performance, but the syllables themselves are not representative of anything.
@@kharybdis Very informative, I wasn't aware of that. I briefly learned mridangam and learned bols, but it was much less strict than tabla bols and there was much more flexibility, so it makes sense that konnakol is a completely different art.
There's a track on Slumdog Millionaire's Soundtrack that has something similar in the background starting off the intro and throughout the track.... Same guys? Name of the song is: "Liquid Dance"
Its Jonas Hellborg and the Vinnakrum brothers i think its from the Paris DVD check out Jonas Hellborgs work for music with Konnakol singing especially his albums Icon, Kali's Son, and Good People In Times of evil and MyShawnLaneMusicVideos youtube page
@sybil721vane most of it. About 90-95% of what you hear in Indian Classical music is improvised. There are some pre-defined sections which form the main theme around which the musicians then improvise.
Well I do not know about rap, but Indian classical musicians often employ such sophisticated rhythms in their performances. Zakir Hussain is a famous example.
If, like me, you have a vivid but possibly fading memory of a young, classy, warm-voiced and quite attractive Indian-British lady who did a song very similar to the one in this video, which you found when you searched for 'indian scat singing' because you couldn't think of any better keywords to use, and then you ended up at this video of a bunch of boring old jazz cats instead of that Indian hottie with the fenomenal vocal performance, and you're frustrated because no one, not even here in the comments, is acknowledging her much earlier and much better and warmer and smoother and sexier performance, or even confirming that it has ever existed at all, and now you're beginning to doubt yourself and you wonder if maybe it was just your imagination -- well, let me assure you that your memory is very true, that you're only one mouse-click away from rediscovering that beautiful artist, whose name is Sheila Chandra and whose song is called "Speaking in Tongues", of which multiple versions can be found here on RUclips, but this one on her own channel is a good start, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did: ruclips.net/video/-WckuAjhCjM/видео.html
Wish the uploader changed the title. Anyway, for those who wanted to know the "words/lyrics" of Konnakol, this is an example: www.soundslice.com/slices/zpnNc/
Konnakol is so cool! Does anybody know of any other vocal percussion techniques (besides beatboxing, of course)? I know of North Inidan 'bols', but that is as you may know merely a technique for learning how to play tablas. So, are there any other traditions around the world like this that you know of?
Are these guys former members of John McLaughlin's Shakti? This is the actual beginning of track La Danse Du Bonheur from 1976 album A Handful Of Beauty..
all meditation, life, is breathing and not breathing. i absorb this as i do charlie parker circular breathing or throat singers or the cycle of a howling dingo dog . i enjoy this!.
Counted with them without missing a beat after listening to it so many times.....life seems more meaningful now
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4:02 THIS DUDE IS TOE SNAPPING!!!!!!! are you kidding?!!!!!!!!!!!!! rad!!!
Someone else noticed too! Loll
Yes, I understand that it's not scat singing. The title is meant to convey an approximation of what Konnakol is so that a westerner unfamiliar with it might be interested in checking it out.
Thanks to you, I could type and search "indian scat" and enter this video :)
This is scat allright.. scat means a singer singing like an instrument.. it can be any instrument . In this case it is a tabla or dhol
I think it is an excellent analogy got my attention. I recently have been listening to P.S. Devarajan and fund this as a helpful explanation👍👍
Konnakol (also spelled Konokol, Konakkol) (Tamil: கொன்னக்கோல்) is the art of performing percussion syllables vocally in South Indian music, the Carnatic music (South Indian classical) performance art of vocal percussion. Konnakol is the spoken component of solkattu, which refers to a combination of konnakol syllables spoken while simultaneously counting the tala (meter) with the hand.[1] It is comparable[citation needed] in some respects to bol in Hindustani music, but allows the composition, performance or communication of rhythms. Sri Thetakudi Harihara Subash Chandran is a well-known proponent. (norththreesevenzerooneonesevensix westzerozeroeightzerozeroonesixfive)
This seriously blows my mind! Such an intricate system on rhythm syllable! So amazing!
LOL Starting a Honda at 2:41
😂😂😂😂😂
Indian Meshuggah :)
I have this dvd...probably the most remarkable music dvd I've ever see, and I've seen a whole lot. The best parts are simply seeing how much Shawn and Jonas get into what they're doing. Its all about the love of it, and nothing else for them. RIP Shawn.
We're learning polyrhythms this way in my rythm class. really interresting and intuitive!
Are you kidding? This is the AWESOME part of RUclips.
Indian vocal percussion. Even more unbelievable sounding that playing the actual indian percussion instruments. Just amazing.
Anyone watching this used to be on a drumline? I remember doing this nowhere near as well back in my high school days, heh. Good times.
this rocks! I love it!
proud to be part of this culture :D
i'm indien i'm too proud to shit on the streets
3 minutes in starts the best part. Always makes me smile! :) every time I have to watch this at least 4 times in a row
"The Argument" - at 3:35 - so cool :-) hahahaha
Yea.. starts around 3:00 already :)
It's what made me fall in love with this
I see Shawn Lane in there...not surprising considering how great he was. This is amazing stuff!!!
I noticed him too!! He has an album on which those indians can be heard as well. I think you can find that album if you wiki or google Shawn Lane.
I've played this for people who demanded I turn it off. Some people confuse the hell out of me.
Music has the power to induce trance states, which can induce healing, which can induce temporary discomfort, which can alarm people.
Vinayakram brothers....Fanastic they are...
scat singing is vocal improvisation with random vocables and syllables or without words at all
He must be one hell of a great musician!
Oh my God, this so amazing. These people are seriously talented musicians.
0:57 is that shawn lane? guy was a legend
yeah my friend had to studying world music at the UofM told me that before playing a song on the drums they have to be able to sing the parts, that way they know exactly what to play, it's like memorizing sheet music almost
these guys are great, loved when shawn and jonas played with them, it was magical
absolutely good can't stop watchin....
exellent, great,awesome... how can they do something so well from something so simple?!
The end of the piece is a well known carnatic classical teehai. It's been used in many rhythmic structures, and if I'm not wrong, the shakti record had Vikku Vinayakramji (selva ganesh's father) who performed this teehai.
This kind of music is composed by the legend A.R Rahman in endhiran part 1 ..Chitti music...what a composition...
the bomb. exciting to hear such imagination when it comes to rhythm. Western music could use more of that stuff.
That is so great!
Thank you!
@conqa:
Well, most members of this group (including the two white guys not singing) have played with McLaughlin. The Indian guy to the left is V. Selvaganesh who played in Remember Shakti. But as cashberg says, this is also traditional Carnatic music (konnakol) from South India.
Hey, that's my WiFi-Password!
Out of this world!! AWESOME
I've been myself learning the konnakol for the past few years, and I know how much practice it takes... ;)
It's always such a pleasure to listen to you guys! Bravo!
Cheers,
Raphaëlle Brochet
thank you so much for uploading this ive been looking for these two for years. and as i didnt know their names googling gagagagadum doesnt really work.
zed-x
Shawn Lane! This is so amazing!
This is awesome!
Felt compelled to try this watching this video. My tongue filed for divorce...
seriously is an inspiration to get my tongue wagging more practice
Pete Lockett seems to have a DVD teaching Konokkol..... you might want to check it out.
Just listen to 'The Conference' from Nitin Sawhney's album 'Beyond Skin' - absolutely amazing if you like this.
Insanely cool performance.
Comparing Konnakkol as Indian Scat Singing is like equating Veena/Sitar with Guitar or Mridangam/Tabla with Drums. While many resort to this analogy in the pretext of convenience, it is both inaccurate and unjustified. Beatboxing, Scat Singing and the entire range of Vocal Percussions are new age inventions which are undoubtedly interesting, unique & entertaining in their own ways. However Konnakkol is a distinguished classical art form with profound meaning to each and every syllable, unsurpassed in stature, unrivaled in complexity and unparalleled in its depth & range.
Ancient Beatboxing that's it..
simply amazing!
i was waiting for the guitars to join in ....at one point it just sounded like he was saying take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it take it
If I remember correctly, each of those syllables corresponds to a type of hit on the tabla, an Indan drum instrument. So not only can they sing the syllables, but they can play them as well. This video shows what I'm talking about: /watch?v=Joyk_EMtzn0
That's true for the North Indian counterpart of this. In the NI classical tradition, those 'bols' are syllables that represent the various tabla strikes. This is from the South Indian tradition, in which tabla is not a major percussion instrument. In the SI tradition, the main rhythmic/percussive accompaniment is the mrdanga, but the syllables don't even necessarily represent the mrdanga strikes here. In the SI tradition, the art of vocal percussion is not representative of anything. It's treated as a thing unto itself. You can transcribe a Konnakkol performance into a mrdanga (or any other drum) performance, but the syllables themselves are not representative of anything.
@@kharybdis Very informative, I wasn't aware of that. I briefly learned mridangam and learned bols, but it was much less strict than tabla bols and there was much more flexibility, so it makes sense that konnakol is a completely different art.
wow, that's amazing!
Bravo selva.Perfect!
PERCUSSIONIST ALPAY®
There's a track on Slumdog Millionaire's Soundtrack that has something similar in the background starting off the intro and throughout the track.... Same guys? Name of the song is: "Liquid Dance"
FANTASTIQUE !
Its Jonas Hellborg and the Vinnakrum brothers i think its from the Paris DVD check out Jonas Hellborgs work for music with Konnakol singing especially his albums Icon, Kali's Son, and Good People In Times of evil and MyShawnLaneMusicVideos youtube page
Awesome!!!!
The awesomest thing iver ever head !
excellent guys !!
mesmerising!
Selva you f**kin rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great performance by Shawn, Selva and the team.
RIP Shawn lane
this is intense and AWESOME! :D
This is awsome.
@sybil721vane most of it. About 90-95% of what you hear in Indian Classical music is improvised. There are some pre-defined sections which form the main theme around which the musicians then improvise.
simply amazing :)
i'm learning basics of this tomorrow!!!
The best!
this is awesome
i use konnokol as my main way for counting rhythm. its really so easy.
isnt the end of this improvisation a part of get down and struti by shakti on the 1977 record natural elements? with john mclaughlin?
du bonheur !!!!
There's gotta be some Indian rapper out there employing these rhythms into some super technical raps, I'd hope so anyway.
Well I do not know about rap, but Indian classical musicians often employ such sophisticated rhythms in their performances. Zakir Hussain is a famous example.
@@DipayanPyne how about jazz vocalists? Vocalese or scat singing?
ruclips.net/video/cw0dI8RZcNM/видео.html
@@saive4357 thank you!
'Rap' from 18th century: ruclips.net/video/gYiRRS1Qpu8/видео.html
If, like me, you have a vivid but possibly fading memory of a young, classy, warm-voiced and quite attractive Indian-British lady who did a song very similar to the one in this video, which you found when you searched for 'indian scat singing' because you couldn't think of any better keywords to use, and then you ended up at this video of a bunch of boring old jazz cats instead of that Indian hottie with the fenomenal vocal performance, and you're frustrated because no one, not even here in the comments, is acknowledging her much earlier and much better and warmer and smoother and sexier performance, or even confirming that it has ever existed at all, and now you're beginning to doubt yourself and you wonder if maybe it was just your imagination -- well, let me assure you that your memory is very true, that you're only one mouse-click away from rediscovering that beautiful artist, whose name is Sheila Chandra and whose song is called "Speaking in Tongues", of which multiple versions can be found here on RUclips, but this one on her own channel is a good start, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did: ruclips.net/video/-WckuAjhCjM/видео.html
A fully kick-ass performance.
YES!
Leal souvenir...
Mate it goes off in the rave.
the bassman is just chillin out man
Wish the uploader changed the title. Anyway, for those who wanted to know the "words/lyrics" of Konnakol, this is an example:
www.soundslice.com/slices/zpnNc/
Awesome!
captivating
I was already going nuts while watching this video but then I saw Shawn Lane... I think I just jizzed in my pants, lol.
@surenothug it's konakol - vocal percussion.
awesome
Konnakol is so cool! Does anybody know of any other vocal percussion techniques (besides beatboxing, of course)? I know of North Inidan 'bols', but that is as you may know merely a technique for learning how to play tablas.
So, are there any other traditions around the world like this that you know of?
konokal my friends.....beautiful
To good
@punkkiranpunk I only wrote that to help people find it who might not know the term konnakol.
(in Orson Welles drunk voice) “He doesn’t say anything?”
mind blowing
Dang, now that's pro.
Take That Busta Rhymes!!!
the opening almost heard like "ojo gentak kejepit.. ojo gentak kejepit". 😂
@Mapex101 check out Pete Lockett and Steve Smith works if you are interested in kanokkol.
I have respect for these guys! woohoo!
very very nice. karnataka sangeetha superrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
very super uber cool
i want to see the lyrics for this
So this is where Rachelle Farrelle gets it from? So awesome.
Truly awesome! enough energy there to do away with nuclear power...
'Cos beatboxing and scat singing, of course, can be picked up overnight.
-FT
Ha. Awesome.
Are these guys former members of John McLaughlin's Shakti? This is the actual beginning of track La Danse Du Bonheur from 1976 album A Handful Of Beauty..
all meditation, life, is breathing and not breathing. i absorb this as i do charlie parker circular breathing or throat singers or the cycle of a howling dingo dog . i enjoy this!.