UNRESERVED
Praveen Sparsh
There is music we seek out and listen to, and then there is the music that is simply around us, yet rarely heard. There are melodies, rhythms, simple and complex, aural elements that blur the line between 'just sounds’ and ‘music’. Unreserved is an attempt at bringing these elements to the foreground, and letting the mridangam interact with these soundscapes. The artiste has sampled these sounds in their raw setting, created a digital template and then played the mridangam over it, letting the various elements collide in a beautiful spectrum of chaos, yet with a natural progression that very literally, allows the music to create itself.
Track 1: Savari
Trombone - Jonah Levine
Trumpet - Aaron Janik
Bass - Napier Naveen Kumar
Additional brass arrangement - Susha
Mridangam, Konnakol and Kanjira - Praveen Sparsh
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Track 2: Fly
Violin - Shreya Devnath
Mridangam - Praveen Sparsh
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Track 3: Maya
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Mridangam - Praveen Sparsh
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Track 4: Unreserved
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Bass - Napier Naveen Kumar
Mridangam, Konnakol and Kanjira - Praveen Sparsh
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Track 5: Bird Song
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Additional arrangement and Konnakol - Shreya Devnath
Mridangam, Konnakol and Kanjira - Praveen Sparsh
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Album Mixed and Mastered by Ishit Kuberkar
Music Composed and Produced by Praveen Sparsh
"This album draws us into every sound that we take for granted, be it the honk of an autorickshaw horn, the whispering wind or the aural shades that emanate from the mridangam. A stunning experiment."
T M Krishna
Singer, Author & Public Speaker
"Praveen Sparsh sets the bar very high for himself in this album. The rhythmic soundscapes of Chennai, the ambient sounds, the sharp horns, the sizzling konnakol leads us to the melodic Mridangam and symphonic climax in a halluninatory spiral. The new, the classical, the techno and ground breaking recording and mixing techniques makes this one the most innovative albums I have heard in a long time."
Rajiv Menon
Filmmaker & Cinematographer