Sid Sriram Instagram – Next concert: Brahma Gana Sabha on Dec. 10 at Rasika Ranjani Sabha main hall at 6pm (ticket link in bio) In music, especially with a form like Carnatic music, you keep exploring and discovering new spaces, seeds, portals, etc. It’s constant, you wade away from shore into the ocean and find yourself in deeper waters. sometimes you get lost for a bit and then re-adjust. But some pieces just feel like home. This Raga Subhapantuvaralli feels like home for me. I first fell in love with it when I was around 12 years old, listening to a CD (haha, this was in 2002/2003) of a live @sanjaysub sir concert that left me completely spellbound. I remember immediately insisting to my mom that I had to learn the piece he had sung in the CD, Ennallurake. Soon thereafter I discovered a recording of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer singing Sri Satyanarayanam which pulled me into the Raga even more. Every time I get to sing Subha Pantuvaralli on stage feels like a return to a deep sense of warmth, grounding and excitement. Here’s an excerpt of Alapana in Subha Pantuvaralli from last night’s concert for Kartik Fine Arts Video captured by @shreyas.shankar All love