Dakshinamurte

Dakshinamurte is a Carnatic music composition performed by vocalist T. M. Krishna. The track appears as the fourth piece on an unreleased live recording from the December Season 2008, issued commercially in 2009 under the label Charsur Digital Workstation. The album was distributed in CD format.

The recording captures a 9-minute and 42-second rendition of the kriti Dakshinamurte, a devotional work traditionally attributed to composer Muthuswami Dikshitar. Krishna interprets the piece in the raaga Shankarabharanam, a fundamental scale in Carnatic music. The performance adheres to the Adi tala rhythmic cycle, a common 8-beat structure in the genre. Accompaniment details for this specific track remain undocumented in available sources.

The December Season refers to the annual Margazhi Music Festival held in Chennai, a month-long series of concerts featuring leading Carnatic musicians. Krishna’s 2008 performance formed part of this festival, though the exact venue and date of the recording are not specified in the release metadata. The Charsur Digital Workstation label, known for archiving live Carnatic performances, produced the CD without additional liner notes or session credits.

No further information exists regarding the album’s full tracklist, collaborating artists, or commercial reception. The release serves as a documented example of Krishna’s concert repertoire during the late 2000s, emphasizing traditional kritis within the Carnatic vocal tradition.