TRIPUNITHURA: Is there anything common between Rudyard Kipling, the renowned English writer, and the world of music? Kipling had expressed his doubt over the merging of two entirely different cultural streams, say East and West, in most of his works. According to him East and West are two extremely parallel cultures. However, in a matchless manner, a team of musicians headed by Chithraveena Ravikiran succeeded in converging the two extremes of musical streams rooted in East and West in ‘Beyond Kipling’, a musical performance.By breaking geographical barriers in a stylised musical way, the five-member band presented some ethereal moments at JT Pac on Sunday. A product of the world famous music school of Hermatto Pascoal pianist Jovino Santos Netto from Brazil started the melodious evening with a composition of his own titled as ‘sempre Sim’. When melody began to flow from his keyboard, Fazal Qureshi, the son of legendary tabalist Qureshi Alla Rakha Khan, entered with a pulsating rhythm. The rendering style of Fazal was strictly in tune with the Western notes pouring from the keyboard of Jovio.Ravikiran with his chithraveena joined them. The maestro played the conventional opening rag, ‘hamsa dhwani’. The beautiful raga was strongly supported by Charumathy Raghuraman in her violin. When the reverberations of the rag filled the air, Jovio in an amazing style tried to recreate the carnatic notes in his keyboard.After exploring the mood of the rag, Ravikiran played the famous composition ‘Vinaayaka ninu vina...’ which Jovio tried to recreate in his key board. In the ‘pallavi’ portion, Fazal presented a pulsating ‘thaniavarthanam’ on tabla which was followed by Anand both on mrudangam and khanjira.Jovino, then started another composition named ‘Creation’. Rhythmic support given by Fazal for this piece provided a rare chance for the listeners to enjoy the enthralling beats from his ‘dhakka’. His prolonged ‘gamakaas’ on ‘dhakka’ were accepted by listeners with thunderous applause.When Jovino began to entice the listeners with the measured movements of his fingers, Ravikiran added a unique flavour to the melody by playing the notes of the sensitive rag, ‘kapi’, followed by another rag ‘sarasaangi,’ along with the Western notes of Jovio’s key board and the striking tonal beauty of the strings of Charumathy’s violin. The second half of the music night began with a melodious piece from Jovino’s keyboard accompanied by the chithraveena of Ravikiran. “At the particular juncture when the tonal waves of my keyboard blend with the prolonged tonal beauty of Ravi’s veena, I would like to call it as joveena”, said the brilliant composer. In the session, Jovino also played a wind instrument ‘melodic’. Finally a folk piece based on the conventional ‘snake charming tune’ was presented to mark the end of the mesmeric musical night.
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