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A Rare Blend Of Raga & Sahitya - Bombay S Jayashri Reviews

A race Blend of best song
May 23, 2016 09:53 PM 2140 Views

"Smell that?" says Derek Trucks. The ponytailed guitarist, 34, takes a freshly-pressed vinyl record and holds it up to his nose for a closer whiff. It's a Thursday evening in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Trucks is giddy as he strolls through his well-kept tour bus. Tedeschi Trucks Band – the 11-piece roots-and-blues collective he formed with his wife, Susan Tedeschi, in 2010 – are set to hit the stage in less than an hour. Adding to Trucks' excitement: Only weeks before, the band put the Finish938844ing touches on their second studio album, Made Up Mind(due out August 20th). That's the record he's inspecting, no, inhaling right now.


"Hey, ya'll!" Tedeschi's voice cuts through the air. The burnt-blond-haired singer-guitarist moves briskly up the stairs of the bus. Dressed in a form-fitting, flower-print dress, Tedeschi, 42, joins her all-male bandmates, takes a seat at a makeshift kitchen table and begins painting her nails. The bus is in full pre-gig swing now: Percussionists JJ Johnson and Tyler "Falcon" Greenwell are smacking away on drum pads; trumpeter Maurice Brown adjusts his necktie; backup singers and members of the horn section, including Mark Rivers and Saunders Sermons, have stepped outside for a smoke. And Trucks, well, he's in full concentration mode after putting down the vinyl, noodling away on his red Gibson Signature SG as a gnarly Albert King vocal blares overhead.


A few hours earlier, eating a sushi lunch with his family – which today includes himself, Tedeschi, son Charlie, 12, daughter Sophia, 9, and Trucks' mother, Debbie, all of whom have packed into the band's tour bus for the week with the kids out of school for the summer – Trucks is miles away from the stage. A slide-guitar prodigy by age nine, he joined the Allman Brothers Band with his uncle, Butch, in 1999, and was touring in Eric Clapton's band by 2006. But the fun-loving, football-obsessed Trucks doesn't seem the slightest bit jaded by his early fame. Having the whole family on the road, while admitedly a little chaotic, is a rare treat, he says. "With the age of our kids, I didn't want to miss out on as much, " Trucks says. Having the kids around "actually makes us behave a little better, " Tedeschi adds with a laugh.


Like Revelator, their 2011 Dixie-funk odyssey of a debut album, Made Up Mind was recorded at their Swamp Raga studios. A two-story, $400, 000 recording and practice space behind Trucks and Tedeschi’s Jacksonville, Florida house – which includes a guest bedroom upstairs, where Greenwell stayed often during the band's recent sessions – the home studio allows husband and wife to balance work and domestic life. "The upside for me is, it's awesome I still get to be mom, " says Tedeschi. "I like to cook and clean and do laundry and kind of be a girl control-freak.”


"There's something nice about having a studio where it doesn't feel like work, " adds Trucks. "Everyone just shows up and it's a hang.  You're rehearsing in a place where you just turn the knob and now you're recording. Though, " he adds with a chuckle, "we have to pull Susan back sometimes, 'cause she'll get into'I have to make dinner for 18 people' mode."


Recording for the new album began late last October and lasted the better part of eight months. Seasoned songwriters and longtime Trucks confidants Doyle Bramhall II and Chris Wood, as well as engineer Bobby Tis would fly in at various times to help work on the new songs. Producer Jim Scott, who's worked with the Rolling Stones and Tom Petty as well as helming Revelator, returned, too.


Each day at Swamp Raga brought new experiences. According to Trucks, there was one constant: "You'd just play all day. You go for two or three hours. Usually you'd have a tune done by then, but if it was a day where it wasn't happening, you'd break for an early dinner and then hit it after. And then the Dark'n' Stormys would come out and you'd do a late-night session."


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Rare blent of raga
Apr 29, 2016 02:06 PM 2919 Views

Bombay Jayashree, has been one of the most talented singers in the domain of Carnatic Music. Now, there is a great possibility that my views on her may be biased, since I am indeed one of her great admirer's. Nevertheless, I would surely like to pen my thoughts on the legend!


Expressing oneself through the voice cannot be easier for anyone but Jayashree. The'Bhava' aspect is felt so strongely when she delivers a song. What is more profound is that she is able to accomodate, not only the correct Raga - the perfect Tala - and most prior of them all - The Unshakable Bhava.


Bharat - Our motherland is symbolical for three things - Bha - Bhakthi with Bhava - Ra - Rasanai with Raga - Tha - Thyaga with Tala. Thus, if any of the legendaries are able to make explicit these three facets through music, then there is nothing more crowning to their career. To my limited humble knowledge, Jayashree has been one such artist.


Needless to say, this album of hers is yet another tribute to Indian Music.


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Jan 22, 2004 12:59 PM 3662 Views

Bombay Jayashree, has been one of the most talented singers in the domain of Carnatic Music. Now, there is a great possibility that my views on her may be biased, since I am indeed one of her great admirer's. Nevertheless, I would surely like to pen my thoughts on the legend!


Expressing oneself through the voice cannot be easier for anyone but Jayashree. The ''Bhava'' aspect is felt so strongely when she delivers a song. What is more profound is that she is able to accomodate, not only the correct Raga - the perfect Tala - and most prior of them all - The Unshakable Bhava.


Bharat - Our motherland is symbolical for three things - Bha - Bhakthi with Bhava - Ra - Rasanai with Raga - Tha - Thyaga with Tala. Thus, if any of the legendaries are able to make explicit these three facets through music, then there is nothing more crowning to their career. To my limited humble knowledge, Jayashree has been one such artist.


Needless to say, this album of hers is yet another tribute to Indian Music.


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