U. Srinivas, where to find free & ethical mandolin music! (long)

[stubhead]

O.K., first off load up the sugarmegs.org index here:

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/

You want let it load for a minute, then scan down and fetch this show:

RememberShakti1999-06-26BerkleePerformanceCenter

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/R...erBostonMA.asx

If I HAD to sum up my single main interest in music (thankfully not required) it would be the construction techniques, systems and concepts that musicians use to contruct melodies. Doesn't matter if it's a wholly-written out piece, a semi-organized solo or playing on a wing and a prayer, there are thoughts and ideas going through every musician's mind. At the time of these recordings, I think John McLaughlin was playing with a larger set of building blocks than anyone I've ever heard, before or since. He had assimilated the bebop superimposed triads and Stravinsky's shifting roots and Coltrane's sequential improv and Miles's odd, odd phrasing, and added to that another twenty-five years of hard work learning Indian music, even after the howling success of the first Shakti of 1975. And the contrast in this band is what's fascinating, because with all that - young Srinivas, with a half-dozen ideas and chops to burn, pretty much smokes McLaughlin with his bitty little five-string. The first song you're listening to here, "5 in the Morning, 6 in the Afternoon" is a perfect illustration. McLaughlin has been playing the Berklee school auditorium for a quarter-century, and he know how to give the kids what they want - a total barnburner there, in any "rational" poll of The Greatest 50 Guitar Solos of All Time, well geez. Loud ovation, woo yaay. Then - in 1999. probably no more than one in a hundred people had even heard of Srinivas, even the Berklee hipsters... so they applaud his every little squeak and quiver. At 18:50 he finally stops teasing and pulls the cork out.

Drum solo, 1:22 to 1:46! Hey John - the 70's are over....

There's more Remember Shakti, but it can be stored under "R", "S", or "J; just part of the charm of sugarmegs.

JohnMcLaughlin2001-07-06Traumzeit -
A real barn-burner

JohnMcLaughlinAndRememberShakti2000-11-10Chicago
Another great one.

JohnMcLaughlin2000-10-15Germany - radio show, interrupted by chit-chat.

JohnMclaughlinShaktiGrenobleJazzFestival - 2006 performance, with the addition of John's favorite Hindu vocalist (yuk). Like most reunions, it's a little flat without the touring telepathy.

By the way, if you happen to like "mandolins" or "bluegrass" sugarmegs.org has a few hundred concerts (at least).

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/

MikeMarshallChrisThileMandolinMadness - 2002

Or just a search for the "Mando..." prefix nets a half-dozen hits. Merlfest? Enough SamBush to drown in...

BillMonroe from 1946 - 1995, the NashvilleBluegrassBand, just the word "bluegrass" nets a hundred or so connections, in between "BlueCheer" and "BlueOysterCult".

BY THE WAY - the ethos on these sites is ENJOY THE MUSIC, DON'T SELL IT. If you look up "live bootleg" under CD's on Ebay there are a few hundred jerks trying to ruin it for all of us.

Back to U. Srinivas. Radio India has apparently decide to post their catalog (or lots of it) for streaming. There's another place, kannadaudi.com, that has all sorts of stuff too.

http://www.kannadaaudio.com/Songs/In...gasangamam.php

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/#/al...Raga_Sangamam/

These two links are two different ways to listen to the KILLER album "Raga Sangamam" from my boy U. Srinivas. The second one you have to register for. You can figure out how to back out of these to the home pages and dial up some of their "DNA" recommendations, right?

Well, O.K.

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/#/

http://www.kannadaaudio.com/home/
Here's like 15 albums of his:
http://www.kannadaaudio.com/Songs/In...ivas/index.php

He was rather "over-recorded" as a child prodigy, so you're better off sticking to the post-1996-or-so releases. MusicIndiaonline has FORTY-SEVEN Srinivas CD's listed...

Happy hunting!

[delsbrother]

Wow, thanks for those links! Yeah, talk about a vast catalog..