Charsur through the years.........

1997 Charsur Digital Workstation was formed by Charubala Natarajan and Suresh Gopalan. 1998 Set up digital recording studio with 16 track facility. 1999 Charsur label launched with 9 titles - the RTP and Thematic brands. 2000 Launched Kutcheri brand with special emphasis on the December Season concerts and albums on the Spiritual category. Signed up Shri Sanjay Subrahmanyan as an exclusive Charsur artiste. 2001 Launched Ksetra and Paddhatti brands and exclusive packaging of December Season 2000 product. 2002 Studio upgraded to non linear digital recording with computer based editing and mixing facilities. Launched Single Raga brand. 2003 Participated in World Music forums like Midem and Womex. Studio upgraded to 24 bit digital recording. Charsur products made available as digital downloads on Apple iTunes. 2004 New brand of 2 raga compositions Dvayam launched. DVD on December Season concerts in DTS format for the first time ever in India. 2005 December Season concerts recorded on 24 bit digital format. Travelled with touring artistes and marketed products exclusively at concert venues. 2006 Set up internet based ordering and delivery facility via www.charsur.com

 

Charsur Technical Profile

Products Packaging Pioneering effort in introducing eco friendly digi-packaging on cardboard and dispensing with the plastic cases. Sleeve notes Produced exhaustively researched and detailed sleeve notes. These have been written by specialists. The information contains historical background of the content, artistes and the musical aesthetics of the recording. Artwork and design Established a system of artwork and design that brings to the fore the musicality and the indianness of the product and dispenses with the system of just portraying artiste photographs. The cover design and the title brings out the content of the product visually. Branding Branding the products by bringing in a new line of titles that are separated by category according to the musical content recorded. Kutcheri Releasing unedited live concerts bringing the Carnatic Kutcheri to every home.

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Products and Brands

Kutcheri – December Season

One of the company's greatest success stories is the brand Kutcheri – December Season 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 untampered. Unlike the olden days when there was not enough equipments or infrastructure to record the concerts in its pristine form. Charsur captures the audio recording in a very high digital format of 24 bits.

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Ksetra – Temples of India

This brand consists of compostions 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.This brand has also gone a long way in the history of Charsur. The selection of the temple is based on research on the history, the musical importance and saints who visited the temples.

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Paddhatti – Live Concert of the great maestros

Various masters / legends in carnatic music have made a special place for themselves in the carnatic music genre. This series involves identifying great contributors – their live concerts during their period. These concerts are again unedited - acquired from the analog recordings and digitally cleaned and re mastered and presented in the new format.

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RTP – Ragam Tanam Pallavi

The brand features one single raga which is sung elaborately by the artists giving various expressions of the ragam and creative aspect of the music with different rhythmic patterns.

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Thematic – this brands consists two different themes

The album features various compositions of a single composer. These albums are on a particular theme. But various composers. All the compositions chosen in this album would be under the theme chosen for.

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Spiritual

This category features chants and devotional music like bhajans and abhangs.

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