1/6/2023 0 Comments Malayalam kavithakal pranayam![]() Malayalam is also spoken by linguistic minorities in the neighbouring states with significant number of speakers in the Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts of Karnataka, and Nilgiris and Kanyakumari, districts of Tamil Nadu. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry ( Mahé), and is spoken by 34 million people worldwide. ![]() It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India and is spoken by 2.88% of Indians. Malayalam ( / ˌ m æ l ə ˈ j ɑː l ə m/ Malayalam: മലയാളം, Malayāḷam ?, ( listen)) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry ( Mahé district) by the Malayali people. A Malayalam speaker, recorded in South Africa
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But in a year like this one, it breaks your heart. Heard at any time in the four decades since its making, “Echos” would be touching. ![]() ![]() Listening to “Echos” is as poignant as stumbling upon a roadside shrine of flowers, candles, and photos, but Ferreyra goes beyond creating a memorial to Mercedes: She defies death itself and resurrects her niece as an aural apparition. At other points, the melted murmurs and shimmered syllables feel soothing and psalm-like, as though the girl’s ghost is mourning herself. In places, the young woman’s voice flickers and trembles with playful delight, sounding impossibly alive. ![]() Recorded in 1978 but released for the first time this year, the piece is woven entirely from the voice of Ferreyra’s niece Mercedes Cornu, who died in a car accident prior to its composition. Argentine composer Beatriz Ferreyra is renowned for the disorienting spatiality and shape-shifting abstraction of her electronic and tape-based work, but it’s the human scale and raw intimacy of “Echos” that startle. |
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