Sikkil Gurucharan impresses with the tone and texture of his music

Sikkil Gurucharan’s music remains serious and sensitive, unsullied by current affectations

Art gets easily weathered by the times that it exists in. Technology rains into every art experience, with its allied features — speed, visual appeal, embellishment, skills display, and more. Do these impact only artistes of a certain dispensation? Not really, it is more or less democratic in the way it engulfs almost everyone, barring a few.

Sikkil Gurucharan is among that few. The tone and texture of his music remains untouched by the current affectations, as he demonstrated at a recent Kartik Fine Arts concert. Bustle-free but rich in emotion, he opened the concert with the Sahana varnam ‘Karunimpa’. It was followed by the Dikshitar kriti ‘Harihara Putram’ in madhyama kala. Unlike the normal trend, Gurucharan didn’t race through the kriti but rendered it reflectively.