Charsur vs Carnaticpedia

Charsur App has been created to help music lovers to listen to all that has been produced by Charsur Digital Workstation, at their convenience. The app brings out the different brands and has classified the entire catalogue as brands, Artistes, Ragas, Composers etc. for listening pleasure. Listener can choose their favorite albums, tracks, ragas, artistes, composer and create playlists of their choice. The App also allows the listener to tune in to Carnatic music on continuous play. Charsur Digital Workstation is a music label involved in the production of Carnatic music. A few albums has blossomed to 450 albums and is growing every year. From great maestros like Madurai Mani to the latest new generation leading artists like Sanjay Subrahmanyan. Charsur catalogue offers something for everyone and ample riches for music lovers of every stripe. • Kutcheri - Under this Brand Charsur brings out the Live Concerts by the performing artist of this decade. This brand brings out the strength of each artist, as the live concerts are unedited and un-tampered. Charsur captures the audio recording in a very high digital format of 24 bits. • Ksetra - This brand consists of compositions pertaining to famous temples of south India, and the compositions are those which were composed by the great composers and saints when they visited these temples and got inspired and composed. • December Season - live concerts from the madras music festival organized by different Sabhas (organizers) in Chennai (madras) for more than 100 years. • PADDHATTI – Live Concert of the great maestros – these concerts are again unedited - acquired from the analog recordings and digitally cleaned and re mastered. • RTP – Ragam Tanam Pallavi – this would be one single raaga which is sung elaborately by the artists giving various expressions of the Ragam and creative aspect of the music in different rhythmic patterns. • Thematic – this brands consists two different themes: • the album will feature various compositions of one composer only. • the album will based on a particular theme. But various composers. All the compositions chosen in this album would be under the theme chosen for e.g the album Vatsalyam consists of Lullabies composed by various composers. • One Raaga Compositions : the album under this brand is based on a particular Ragam bringing out the different flavors of a Ragam. Also the compositions chosen are by various composers, as every composer deals with the same Ragam differently. So the various expression and colors of a Ragam comes out in full. • Spiritual- consists of chants and devotional music like bhajans and abhangs • Saulabhyam – explores the traditional , rich namasankirtanam • Vaggeyakara – this brand is based on compositions of great Composers such as Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar, Syama Sastri, Harikesanallur Muthaiah Bhagavatar

Carnatic Music is well liked and followed by millions of music lovers across the world. We thought we'd develop an app that provides all information about learning and enjoying Carnatic Music. We have an endless supply of songs (basic exercises, geethams, varnams, krithis, thillanas and more), notations, videos, lessons, technical information on ragas, talas etc.