Melody Zone

Premasiri Kemadasa Premasiri Kemadasa (1937 -2008) can be introduced as an outstanding experimental Sri  Lankan musician who established a unique music sub-culture in Sri Lankan music traditions. He was one of the pioneers of a modern style of film music, stage drama music, teledrama music as well as light song music for Sri Lanka, based on folk melodies and his own inventions, sometimes inspired by Western classical pieces. He offered several forms of experimental music into the art stream of the country and tried to give a new experience to his audience. He tried to introduce western music forms and genres such as Opera, Ballet, Symphony, Cantata, etc. to modern Sri Lankan music. (Kemadasa; 2018)      According to Kemadasa , Piriniwanmangallaya, the world first Buddhist Cantata was influenced by the libretto from folk poems (accompanied with dancing forms practiced in the low country region of Sri Lanka) and applie...