Guitar Prasanna | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Chennai can be seen as a maize of Karnataka music, but it is rare to listen to ‘Mahaganapatim’ and Pink Floid’s ‘Money’ in the same concert. However, ‘Guitar’ Prasanna is known to take his audience on a music exploration whenever he performs.

In his recent presentation in MEDAI, under the title ‘Electric Prasanna Land’, he displayed the ability of the guitar as a tool that has been completed on his own in a concert. Attached to a lively conversation, Prasanna adjusted the audience’s requests and improved the spot several times for the joy of his fans. Keeping in mind the music heritage of Tamil Nadu, the 8th-century devotional poets such as Ilaiyaraja, like Ilayaraja, Prasanna were chosen as a home, which sometimes resonated with hard-to-play Chennai music lovers, which were sometimes echoed with Hard-to-Play Chennai music lovers. .

The evergreen number of RD Burman from Sholay ‘Mehbooba Mehbooba’ has been largely anthologous, remixed and re -created. This was a prudent option to create a feeling of apathy by Prasanna. Prasanna’s own compositions like ‘Balling for Peace’ from his hit 2006 album Electrical Ganesh land And ‘Kalyani Connection’ from the album ChangeThose who have received thousands of views on YouTube and are still popular today, were played on the show.

As a multi-style composer, Prasanna attains excellence in rock, metal, jazz and Karnataka. For example, the track ‘Smelling Kishore Soul’ by the American rock band Nirvana. Prasanna picked up this piece and guessed the audience what it is, taking them with great communication and participation. His personal and emotional connection with music lovers adds a special touch to his performance.

Prasanna in his Chennai show. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Prasanna’s work with AR Rahman is widespread and music composer has called him ‘A Living Hope for Quality Music’. After Rahman’s ‘Dil Se’, Prasanna participated in ‘Chaiya Chaiya’ and finally landed on Led Zeplin’s prestigious ‘Black Dog’. Unexpected infections like these added great enthusiasm. Tamil compositions like ‘Netru Ilathi Makam’ and ‘July Matham Vandal’ were also played, later Prasanna’s first professional work was done with Rahman, where he played parts of the original guitar.

Ilaiyaraja Prasanna had the first major music effect and dedicated some of Maestro’s hit numbers for some time, such as ‘Katril Enhan Geham’ and ‘Rasathi Anana’ (recently died. One of the best parts Ilaiyaraja Medley was clearly referred to by Prasanna as the evening vitamics mixture. It included six to seven songs in decades. There was a rollercaster ride of emotions.

Prasanna’s wife Shalini Lakshmi is a singer and is often with her in her performance. That evening, he provided two Karnataka compositions with Prasanna – ‘Pulm Silambina Kan’, Ek Thirupavai, and 17th -century composer Narayan Tirtha with ‘Jaya Jaya Darge’. The couple demonstrated their versatility by adopting Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowing in the Wind’ and Prasanna’s song ‘Odd to Kubla Khan’, composed by him during his college days.

Overall, it was a pleasant experience for music lovers in age groups because songs were diverse in terms of style, language and duration. As a single guitarist, keeping the audience excited in the entire concert is a rare talent and Prasanna has done so.