Nope , Nope - This is not yet another long post . I feel this guy is quite impressive with his unique sounds . Esp his bGM for Vellithirai and Anjaathey are just superb !
When everybody breaks the skin of the drum for folk songs , he mixes vocal harmony in a clean way .
Hopefully he gets more chances to produce such stuff !
Friday, October 24, 2008
Ananda Thandavam- Yes !
if somebody asks me if i like GV Prakash - my answer is , ' Im not sure , what movies has he composed ?'. Not that i haven't heared his songs , but somehow his songs don't stick beyond 1 month or so . Probably couple of songs in Kreedam is an exception , other than i haven't found a month-more attraction to his songs .
If you can forget the harris followed, Rehmanish guitar pieces in the second interlude, everything about kalil Aadum is splendid - Benny iss superb , and the unusual rythm joins him in making the song truly delightful.SHankar Mahadevan adds one more hit , previous being Hey baby from Aegan , and this one contrasting to it - 'Megam Pola' - starts with an uncomortable sound that translates to a hindustani kind of song - probably the singer is quite apt since he has composed and sung such a number in 'Breathless' .
Nithyashree , vinitra and shuba mudgaal croon in Kanaa KaaNgiraen - i havent heard of subha much , but her numbers in raincoat (hindi/Bengali) were quite delightful. The opening isn't impressive , but the energetic rythms and Nithyashree's solid singing makes it up - its intresting how many songs can be tuned for a marriage kind of situation ! Again why rehmanish's sitar !
Shreya's midas touch continues in this vidyasagar kind of song- Povinai and to an extent shreya resembled the chameleon singer CHinmayee .Charanam - exactly haunting as Vidyasagar ! WOW ! some strange reason , i don't like Naresh Iyer and pattu Poochi doesn't do anything to change it - kiddish voice , Karthik woulkd have done a good job for this song ! Not a bad song ,actually.
This leaves with the theme music - can't wait , im ready to visit the theater - did it have anything to inspire GVP to give such a nice score ?
Score - 40/50
If you can forget the harris followed, Rehmanish guitar pieces in the second interlude, everything about kalil Aadum is splendid - Benny iss superb , and the unusual rythm joins him in making the song truly delightful.SHankar Mahadevan adds one more hit , previous being Hey baby from Aegan , and this one contrasting to it - 'Megam Pola' - starts with an uncomortable sound that translates to a hindustani kind of song - probably the singer is quite apt since he has composed and sung such a number in 'Breathless' .
Nithyashree , vinitra and shuba mudgaal croon in Kanaa KaaNgiraen - i havent heard of subha much , but her numbers in raincoat (hindi/Bengali) were quite delightful. The opening isn't impressive , but the energetic rythms and Nithyashree's solid singing makes it up - its intresting how many songs can be tuned for a marriage kind of situation ! Again why rehmanish's sitar !
Shreya's midas touch continues in this vidyasagar kind of song- Povinai and to an extent shreya resembled the chameleon singer CHinmayee .Charanam - exactly haunting as Vidyasagar ! WOW ! some strange reason , i don't like Naresh Iyer and pattu Poochi doesn't do anything to change it - kiddish voice , Karthik woulkd have done a good job for this song ! Not a bad song ,actually.
This leaves with the theme music - can't wait , im ready to visit the theater - did it have anything to inspire GVP to give such a nice score ?
Score - 40/50
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Aegan - Not home food !
Raaja made me listen JAZZ through his spectrum of songs in 80s and it rejuvenated with Kurangu Kayil Maalai and rehman continued it with SIllinu Oru Kadhal . Yuvan suceed to a large extent in Hey Baby with Shankar fitting to a T , esp the change in pitch at the end and the 'Malikka I love you' part - APT !
Hey Saala has all singers that i don't care ( yeah including Naresh Iyer , a bit kiddish) and a music thats resembling Rehman , if you listen to New New song ,Taxi Taxi , but in the end is foot tapping .Odum varayil confused me with the Pallavi/anu pallavi offering dose of advise and my mind imagining Ajith literally singing it , but then nayantara(hopefully) takes over charanam with the female voice (Bele shinde- KR find in Chakravuyham) and the melody as soft as her skin ! yahoo yahoo does nothing to improve the situation the web leader , but didnt make me hit the forward button , atleast for today !
Kichu Kichu starts like a Imaan song , then revisits Billa's sleeze mood a bit and finally settles to a band of average to good music .Thinking again , the tune is actually raaja's 80s but made opaque by yuvan's Synth orchestration.
This is plastic music , pizza food , short lived- but you do eat pizza , because beneath the facade of health concerns the momentary joy you get in biting that cheese is indeed nice :)
Score - 37/50
Hey Saala has all singers that i don't care ( yeah including Naresh Iyer , a bit kiddish) and a music thats resembling Rehman , if you listen to New New song ,Taxi Taxi , but in the end is foot tapping .Odum varayil confused me with the Pallavi/anu pallavi offering dose of advise and my mind imagining Ajith literally singing it , but then nayantara(hopefully) takes over charanam with the female voice (Bele shinde- KR find in Chakravuyham) and the melody as soft as her skin ! yahoo yahoo does nothing to improve the situation the web leader , but didnt make me hit the forward button , atleast for today !
Kichu Kichu starts like a Imaan song , then revisits Billa's sleeze mood a bit and finally settles to a band of average to good music .Thinking again , the tune is actually raaja's 80s but made opaque by yuvan's Synth orchestration.
This is plastic music , pizza food , short lived- but you do eat pizza , because beneath the facade of health concerns the momentary joy you get in biting that cheese is indeed nice :)
Score - 37/50
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Identify which song ! (KR)
I was inspired by suresh's post where he had Interludes in his post and we had to identify the song.
He had doen it for raaja , im doing it for his first son. I didnt know how to use hipcast ( it was a paid service) , so have uploaded the interludes here .
Answers in few days ,if at all i get any answers :)
Comments will appear after answers are revealed !
He had doen it for raaja , im doing it for his first son. I didnt know how to use hipcast ( it was a paid service) , so have uploaded the interludes here .
Answers in few days ,if at all i get any answers :)
Comments will appear after answers are revealed !
Friday, October 03, 2008
Karthik Raaja
Karthik Raaja !
I think Suresh , Baradwaj , Karthik(itwofs) have written wonderful articles on their journey with Illayaraaja /ARR . I believe we have all ( ~25-30) would have grown with Raaja or ARR songs and hence definetly lot to write about ARR or Illayraaja .
For some reasons , i like Karthik raaja . May be , the very first time i heard that son of Illayraaja is composing , and beinga naive , emotional music listener at 14 , i wished Karthik Raaja deliver music that would push ARR to the bottom of charts , as at that time even a sneeze of ARR was becoming a hit . ( it is another story that i secretly enjoyed ARR music but put up a brave front before my friends that im a die haard fan of Raaja and that i don't hear ARR much ) . But Manikkam , Enakku Oru Magan Pirappan , Alexandar didn't do much ,except adding 5-6 songs to my likeable songs .
Then came Ullasam - it just blew me up and i started having some kind of unique liking to Karthik Raaja . It was not rehman , not Illayraaja , but a unique sound which i liked very much. Ullasam songs were a big hit and i went mad with that album , almost mentioning the name of album to everybody . Next started by search on dhinaa thanthi , dhina karan on the new films that come up and the music director for those films . I started searching *Raaja* in the names and it used to excite me to find a karthik raaja in the crew.
Another album which excited me was GRAHAN . The minute i heard in those hindi channels , i was just sucked to it . So much so , that after 8 years when i was working in delhi , i searched for Grahan soundtracks only to see a whimsical smile from the cassete shop owners . Till now , it remains one of my favourite albums that just remain hard wired in my mind . Esp kehte ke jisko , chum chum , Ye sochu ta
By then, yuvan gave a Aravindan , a good debut and i also started liking him (again hoping that he will push rehman down) . I started tracking each and every album of Karthik and Yuvan . At one phase i liked yuvan abit more , when he delievered Povellam Kettu paar , dheena and it just mingled with my college life so much .Yuvan dished out his career in his own way , his own hip hop, pop sounds that slowly became a big hit with Karthik .
Two albums which made my loyalties move to KR are Naam Iruvaar Namakku iruvar and kadhal Kadhaala . I was the first guy to buy Kadhala Kadhala in the saidapet cassete shop ( was in anna univ ) and just rushed back to hostel to listen to the sound tracks.Esp , Naam iruvar songs defined my freedom i got in my hostel days and my life just got interwined with it .
Karthik raaja made a couple of unforgettable outings like vaanchinaathan , which made me hate his music for aa short time . Again , when dumm dumm dumm , Ullam Kollai Poguthey came up , it was just candy -time for me .
It is difficult to say why you like a composer . You would ideally like to say ' i like songs and doesnt matter who the composer' , but somewhere the bias comes in !
Post-2001 , KR adopted an change in his compositions . He tried his best to maintain his original style at a time where even if you follow 30% of rehman's style , you are sure to find your numbers in the top 10 . Of course this resulted in KR giving scores which find a mention only in musicindiaonline . But i liked almost all of the scores that came after 2001 - atleast couple of numbers in each movie. My favorite songs of KR .Just hope that he gets good movies to score !
1. Indha Sirpinnai - Naam iruvar Namakku Iruvar
2. Konjum Manjal - Ullasam
3. Kehkte Jisko - Grahan
4.Kavithaigal Sollava - Ullam Kollai poguthey
5.Onnu rendu - Kudaikkul Mazhai
6.Oru Matram - Naalai
7.hei Unnidam- Chakravuyham
8.Kadhal VanOli - ALBUM
9.Sutrum Bhoombi - DUmm Dumm DUmm
10.Mein Cheese Badi - 16 December
11. Belli chandriudu - Hoo Anthiyaa HuHoo Anthiyaa
12.Oduthey Ooduthey - Ragasiyamai
13. EN Kadhali- Muruguga
14. Poo Vaithal - Kadhalai Kavurivukum Neram
I think Suresh , Baradwaj , Karthik(itwofs) have written wonderful articles on their journey with Illayaraaja /ARR . I believe we have all ( ~25-30) would have grown with Raaja or ARR songs and hence definetly lot to write about ARR or Illayraaja .
For some reasons , i like Karthik raaja . May be , the very first time i heard that son of Illayraaja is composing , and beinga naive , emotional music listener at 14 , i wished Karthik Raaja deliver music that would push ARR to the bottom of charts , as at that time even a sneeze of ARR was becoming a hit . ( it is another story that i secretly enjoyed ARR music but put up a brave front before my friends that im a die haard fan of Raaja and that i don't hear ARR much ) . But Manikkam , Enakku Oru Magan Pirappan , Alexandar didn't do much ,except adding 5-6 songs to my likeable songs .
Then came Ullasam - it just blew me up and i started having some kind of unique liking to Karthik Raaja . It was not rehman , not Illayraaja , but a unique sound which i liked very much. Ullasam songs were a big hit and i went mad with that album , almost mentioning the name of album to everybody . Next started by search on dhinaa thanthi , dhina karan on the new films that come up and the music director for those films . I started searching *Raaja* in the names and it used to excite me to find a karthik raaja in the crew.
Another album which excited me was GRAHAN . The minute i heard in those hindi channels , i was just sucked to it . So much so , that after 8 years when i was working in delhi , i searched for Grahan soundtracks only to see a whimsical smile from the cassete shop owners . Till now , it remains one of my favourite albums that just remain hard wired in my mind . Esp kehte ke jisko , chum chum , Ye sochu ta
By then, yuvan gave a Aravindan , a good debut and i also started liking him (again hoping that he will push rehman down) . I started tracking each and every album of Karthik and Yuvan . At one phase i liked yuvan abit more , when he delievered Povellam Kettu paar , dheena and it just mingled with my college life so much .Yuvan dished out his career in his own way , his own hip hop, pop sounds that slowly became a big hit with Karthik .
Two albums which made my loyalties move to KR are Naam Iruvaar Namakku iruvar and kadhal Kadhaala . I was the first guy to buy Kadhala Kadhala in the saidapet cassete shop ( was in anna univ ) and just rushed back to hostel to listen to the sound tracks.Esp , Naam iruvar songs defined my freedom i got in my hostel days and my life just got interwined with it .
Karthik raaja made a couple of unforgettable outings like vaanchinaathan , which made me hate his music for aa short time . Again , when dumm dumm dumm , Ullam Kollai Poguthey came up , it was just candy -time for me .
It is difficult to say why you like a composer . You would ideally like to say ' i like songs and doesnt matter who the composer' , but somewhere the bias comes in !
Post-2001 , KR adopted an change in his compositions . He tried his best to maintain his original style at a time where even if you follow 30% of rehman's style , you are sure to find your numbers in the top 10 . Of course this resulted in KR giving scores which find a mention only in musicindiaonline . But i liked almost all of the scores that came after 2001 - atleast couple of numbers in each movie. My favorite songs of KR .Just hope that he gets good movies to score !
1. Indha Sirpinnai - Naam iruvar Namakku Iruvar
2. Konjum Manjal - Ullasam
3. Kehkte Jisko - Grahan
4.Kavithaigal Sollava - Ullam Kollai poguthey
5.Onnu rendu - Kudaikkul Mazhai
6.Oru Matram - Naalai
7.hei Unnidam- Chakravuyham
8.Kadhal VanOli - ALBUM
9.Sutrum Bhoombi - DUmm Dumm DUmm
10.Mein Cheese Badi - 16 December
11. Belli chandriudu - Hoo Anthiyaa HuHoo Anthiyaa
12.Oduthey Ooduthey - Ragasiyamai
13. EN Kadhali- Muruguga
14. Poo Vaithal - Kadhalai Kavurivukum Neram
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Varnam Aayiram ( Music Review) - Nooru !
Distortion guitar distracts me sufficently in Adiye Kolluthae , inspite of the Harris jeyaraj's typical good-melody, gibberish words that coated , wrapped with sugary voices and Krish's singing and sufficently mature shruti Hassan.Sudha Raghunathan carries the baton from Bombay jayashree and continues the honey-moon with annal melae, with some throwback to the MS SUbhulakshmi's times , pleasantly done !Oh Shanthi Oh SHanthi might as well be with nerves of romantic folks ,with charan following his dad's legacy , only i hate that oh shanthi oh shanthi humming.
Naresh Iyer delivers well in Mundhinam , with surya's voice as a prelude will go well with people who liked muthal Naal onru (unnale Unnale) , but not with me , though i like this more than the unnale unnale song. Harris gave a great number with Hariharan in Mungil kaadukalae , but the minute i heard the prelude, it brought me down , but again lifted me with MSV kind of tune . Well done ! AA h the same Oh SHanthi , Oh SHanthi and yet i liked in this !
And of course you can forget being called as gay and kiss the hands of the guitarist . Splendid stuff !
Harris's genes are quite evident in Aethi aethi , sufficently energetic , the same feeling i had when i heard Oh maama maama in Minnale , esp the naan raaj naan raaja is just cool man .A song where irrespective of where u are , gonna like it immensely.
Ava enna is OK , nothing to complain . Unfortunately i heard it after aethi aethi and so just felt it as OK. Gautam should recommend paying more to Harris !
42/50
Naresh Iyer delivers well in Mundhinam , with surya's voice as a prelude will go well with people who liked muthal Naal onru (unnale Unnale) , but not with me , though i like this more than the unnale unnale song. Harris gave a great number with Hariharan in Mungil kaadukalae , but the minute i heard the prelude, it brought me down , but again lifted me with MSV kind of tune . Well done ! AA h the same Oh SHanthi , Oh SHanthi and yet i liked in this !
And of course you can forget being called as gay and kiss the hands of the guitarist . Splendid stuff !
Harris's genes are quite evident in Aethi aethi , sufficently energetic , the same feeling i had when i heard Oh maama maama in Minnale , esp the naan raaj naan raaja is just cool man .A song where irrespective of where u are , gonna like it immensely.
Ava enna is OK , nothing to complain . Unfortunately i heard it after aethi aethi and so just felt it as OK. Gautam should recommend paying more to Harris !
42/50
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