Jayanth’s new album
The Hindu
As artistes gathered at Thiruvaiyaru last weekend for the annual Tyagaraja aradhana, flautist J.A. Jayanth was readying for the release of his new album, ’Pancharatna Krithis - A Flute Duet’, in Chenn
As artistes gathered at Thiruvaiyaru last weekend for the annual Tyagaraja aradhana, flautist J.A. Jayanth was readying for the release of his new album, ’Pancharatna Krithis - A Flute Duet’, in Chennai.
Jayanth and co-artistes Patri Satish Kumar and Chandrasekhara Sharma have collaborated with sound engineer Sai Shravanam to produce an album that they believe is truly novel. Yet, the concept is inspired from another equally unique production.
“While I was looking at how to present the Pancharatna kritis differently, I came across Mandolin Shrinivas’s Trio Mandolin album from the early 1990s, in which he plays in different octaves to lend a unique flavour to the saint-composer’s kritis,” says Jayanth.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.