Carnatic violinist and independent musician Shreya Devnath releases her first independent Tamil single titled Kaatre.

Kaatre is a song about a little girl discovering nature. She speaks freely with the wind and the river and she frees herself in the process, saying no matter what stone is thrown at her, she’d simply flow with the river, and become the sea and the rain. She wonders if the clouds are changing shapes just for her and also wonders if the birds sing just for her.  She’s a free soul who’s filled with a love that’s almost childlike as she discovers the joy of nature.

Kaatre is a collaborative effort. Praveen Sparsh has co-curated, arranged, produced the song. The animation of the young girl in the video and all her animal, human and elemental friends were brought to life by Susha, who has also done the album artwork. Mylai Karthikeyan, who played the Nagaswaram in the song, has used a special kind of Nagaswaram called the ‘Timiri Nagaswaram’, which is made for higher pitches, and is rarely seen in Carnatic concerts. The song has been penned by Prem Chand, mixed and mastered by B Prasanna.

“This song was created to cherish our love for nature, music and each other,”said Shreya Devnath.

Shreya Devnath, a student of the legendary Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman is a well-established solo violinist. She has earned much appreciation for her distinctive music. A capable vocalist, and committed teacher, Shreya handles students from different parts of the world. She is also an independent artiste, and music composer, and has also played solo violin for film recordings, including most recently with Maestro AR Rahman.

She was recently invited to be an international Mentor for the Pathways Program as well as the Dada Desi Program, which fall under the Sangam festival, Australia, an international festival for South Asian Music and Dance. She was also invited as a Violin Faculty of the prestigious Summer School Program (Violin) of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London. Shreya is the architect of two outreach programmes; 'The Special Project for the Armed Forces', that is dedicated to taking music to the base camps of the Armed Forces, wherever they may be stationed. The second is ‘Sound.Music.Carnatic music’, a music outreach program for underprivileged children. The intent behind both these initiatives is to spread and share the joy that music brings us far, wide and deep. 

Click on the YouTube link below to watch Kaatre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqNscHi0-io