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{{Infobox record label<br />
| name = Amutham Music<br />
| image = Amutham Music.PNG<br />
| founded = {{start date|2000}}<br />
| founder = Winston Panchacharam<br />
| genre = [[Carnatic music|Carnatic]]<br />
| country = U.S.<br />
| location = [[Nanuet]], New York<br />
| website = {{URL|amuthammusic.com}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Amutham Music''' is an [[independent record label]] based in [[Nanuet]], New York. Founded by Winston Panchacharam in 2000, Amutham specialises in [[Carnatic music]] and [[Bhakti|Indian devotional music]].<br />
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''Sriranjani'' by [[Sudha Ragunathan]] was Amutham's first release. Although it was intended as a one-off to help raise Sudha Ragunathan's professional profile outside of India, it became such a success that Panchacharam decided to release a few more recordings.<br />
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==Artists==<br />
Other than [[Sudha Ragunathan]], who is now Amutham Music's managing director, several other notable Carnatic musicians have released recordings with Amutham Music, including [[Nithyasree Mahadevan]], [[S. Sowmya]], and [[P. Unnikrishnan]].<ref name="HinduismToday2000">[http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/2000/11-12/2000-11-26.shtml Hinduism Today Nov/Dec 2000] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080808141609/http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/2000/11-12/2000-11-26.shtml |date=August 8, 2008 }}</ref><br />
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==Recordings==<br />
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===Thematic presentations===<br />
Panchacharam's vision for Amutham focused not so much on singers, but more on composers and themes. Early releases featured classic compositions by composers like Thyagaraja and Dikshithar, considered the Mozart and Beethoven of the Carnatic repertoire. Later releases moved onto more modern composers like Papanasam Sivan and Subramania Bharathiyar. One feature of these thematic presentations by Amutham Music is that no piece would be recorded by one artist and then re-recorded by another.<ref name="HinduismToday2000"/><br />
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Other types of Amutham theme recordings have focused on a song's subject rather than composers. Amutham's top-selling CDs include "The Dance of Shiva" by Sudha Ragunathan, and "Ragam Vol. 1" by Nithyasree Mahadevan - the first of which popularises compositions of [[Nataraja|Lord Nataraja]] (the cosmic form of [[Shiva]]), while the latter album is made up of songs in which the governing [[raga]] is mentioned either at the beginning of the composition, or is the subject of the composition.<ref name="HinduismToday2000"/> Nithyasree Mahadevan's "Murugan Pamalai Vol. 1" similarly popularises compositions on [[Muruga|Lord Muruga]].<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of record labels]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.amuthammusic.com/main.asp Official website]<br />
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[[Category:Indian record labels]]<br />
[[Category:Record labels established in 2000]]<br />
[[Category:American independent record labels]]<br />
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