Sakala Graha Bala Neene | Sikkil Gurucharan | Maestros in Studio

🎧 Listen to Maestros in Studio on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2U8... Sakala Graha Bala Neene | Sikkil Gurucharan | Purandaradasa | Carnatic Vocal | The Peninsula Studios Long before anyone had a word for astrology, this song was already making the argument: everything that moves you — the planets, the stars, the seasons, the pull of the moon — answers to something bigger still. Purandaradasa wrote it in the early fifteenth century as a Devarnama, a song-form built to carry philosophy to people who would never read a Sanskrit text, and its logic is disarmingly direct. If the sun and moon have power over you, he says, then know who has power over them. Purandaradasa is remembered as the father of Carnatic music — the composer credited with systematising the pedagogy that every Carnatic musician still learns from today, centuries later. Sakala Graha Bala Neene is set in Raga Atana and Kanda Chapu Talam, a rhythmic cycle that gives the piece its distinct forward pull, as though the song itself is in motion the way the planets it describes are. Sikkil Gurucharan performs it here, joined by Sumesh Narayanan on mridangam and M. S. Anantha Krishnan on violin. Where his reading of Dikshitar leans into stillness and his reading of Thyagaraja-adjacent repertoire draws out devotion, this Purandaradasa piece asks for something closer to conviction — the sound of an argument being won. Music Changes Lives. And good music is good music. Watch Next —    • Nilayam Ondru | Sikkil Gurucharan   Related Playlist — Maestros in Studio | The Peninsula Studios |    • Maestros in Studio   https://www.thepeninsulastudios.com/ Curated by Subroto Chattopadhyay and Sita Raina. This recording was led by Avinash Chordia, Head of Studio, with Deepak Samson recording, mixing and mastering the audio and Narinder Tawakley providing logistics support; Shankar Muthuswamy was the studio technician. Anil Srinivasan and Kaushiki Chakraborty with Arunabha Deb curated the Carnatic and Hindustani strands respectively. Salman Usmani directed the film, with Alisha Chatterjee and Mohammad Saad as chief assistant directors, Mudit Singhal and Vijay Rawat assisting direction, Abhishek Negi on lead camera with Punit Upadhya, Nitin Kumar and Shubham Thakur, and Gaurav Pandey and Pawan Arya assisting camera. Priyanka Nagi coordinated production with Shagun Dhir assisting. The film was edited by Sougat Paul, Haseeb Ahmad, Sidharth Singh, Gautam Kumar and Ashish Kumar Pandey, with promos by Mohammad Waseem. Styling was by Kunica Sharma and Vidha Chadha, make-up by Diyvashekhar Jha, and set design by Mohsin Ali, with lights and grips handled by Vinay and Manoj and spots by Teja Singh and Ram Iqbal. Produced by The Peninsula Studios. Copyright © The Peninsula Publications and Studio Private Limited, New Delhi. All Rights Reserved. Produced by The Peninsula Studios and recorded live before invited audiences at The Peninsula Studios, New Delhi, India. The Peninsula Studios is a National Award winning content house and one of India's foremost music archives. Since 2009 we have documented more than 2000 artists across the Indian subcontinent. #SakalaGrahaBalaNeene #SikkilGurucharan #Purandaradasa #CarnaticMusic #ThePeninsulaStudios