Joomla! site syndication http://www.mandolinsureshkumar.com 2008-05-14T21:49:12+01:00 http://www.mandolinsureshkumar.com http://www.mandolinsureshkumar.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2007-02-17T10:56:31+01:00 http://www.mandolinsureshkumar.com http://www.mandolinsureshkumar.com/content/view/37/ Welcome to here (javascript:void(0);) to bookmark this website. Firefox users, please press Control D and Opera users, please press Control T to bookmark this website. include( http://adserve.adster.com/sserve.php?pid=16106 (http://adserve.adster.com/sserve.php?pid=16106) ); text/html 2007-02-16T04:17:44+01:00 http://www.mandolinsureshkumar.com http://www.mandolinsureshkumar.com/content/view/30/68/ In his album “Meditative Mandolin”, Suresh Kumar has come out with innovative styles of presentation. A unique feature of this album is a presentation by Suresh Kumar of a mandolin rendition with accompanying vocals. This is perhaps the first time in contemporary Classical Carnatic Music rendition that an instrumentalist has himself rendered accompanying vocals highlighting the ‘ gaayaki' style of playing. text/html 2007-02-16T03:18:02+01:00 http://www.mandolinsureshkumar.com http://www.mandolinsureshkumar.com/content/view/28/36/ Suresh Kumar has, for the first time in the world, introduced bass guitar as an accompaniment to Classical Carnatic Music. For this he has, after extensive research and analysis, developed a new system in bass guitar playing which uses melody as the basis for composition of bass notes, instead of the usual chord patterns. This unique system which judiciously blends the Jeeva Swaras of Raagas and the complex laya patterns of Classical Carnatic Music, has been well appreciated by the Trinity College of Music, London. text/html 2007-02-16T01:21:37+01:00 http://www.mandolinsureshkumar.com http://www.mandolinsureshkumar.com/content/view/22/31/ Suresh Kumar's innovative approach to music, his adherence to 'bhava' (the feeling emotion expressed by the composer through the composition), his ‘gayaki' style of playing the mandolin, and the introduction of many western fingering techniques like the two-handed tapping, virtual harmonics, etc. to Classical Carnatic have found acclaim with connoisseurs and the press alike. text/html 2007-02-16T00:46:37+01:00 http://www.mandolinsureshkumar.com http://www.mandolinsureshkumar.com/content/view/19/31/ Suresh Kumar has come up with a design of his own for the mandolin, christened ' Dragon '. This design offers greater flexibility and a choice of rich tones. The 'Dragon' was successfully launched in one of Suresh Kumar's concerts in Mumbai, in September 1994. The launch of 'Dragon' was covered by 'Sruti' and also by The Times of India in a review of the performance.