the vocal harmony based "naan porandhu vandhadhu" is bloody brilliant! IR always reserves something special for Panchu Arunachalam!!
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the vocal harmony based "naan porandhu vandhadhu" is bloody brilliant! IR always reserves something special for Panchu Arunachalam!!
Jai,
Thanks once again. Hearing 'adada' for the first time. Clearly not Jesudas.
BTW, the site says 'Maya Bazar' is a 1985 movie but I remember it being in the 90s. When was it released?
Maya Bazar - 96 la vandhadhu nu nenaikiren.
pdam perae - Maya Bazar95 or 96
apo release ana padam dhan idhu.
add parthutu padam parka asai paten.
son apo 1st std.
avanukum pidichadhu. plan panni theatre pona
padathai maathitanga. miss panninom........
Yes, it was named "Mayabazaar-1995" , nothing but Kalyanaraman revisited . Watched Mayabazaar and Raasaiah back to back with our family friends and vividly remember their comment "paatellam enna ivaLo mosama irukku!!! iLaiyarajavaa idhu?? Adhaan market poyiduthu ". I personally liked 3 songs from Rasaiya "karuvaattu kuzhambu" , "dindukallu" and another one which I cannot recollect immediately. Reg Mayabazaar, "naan porandhu" and "oru oorile" were simply brilliant. Between 93-97 , Raja was in an experimental mode . Post KM, he resorted to simple, mediocre stuff as may be he felt there were no takers for the former.
Was the other song from Rasayya, 'kadhal vaanile'?
I can understand the comments you heard during those times. I also heard very similar comments from people. Those were the Rahman days and for many people Raja sounded 'outdated'. The need of the hour was the new rhythmic loops and the raga being made explicit using the standard and well worn out phrases. As you rightly mention many experiments did not get the acceptance. Films like 'Chandralekha', 'Paatu Paadavaa' went down without a fight. The general feeling on the street was that Illayaraja had lost it. And to some extent I have to confess that I too was in that same mood during those times.
Now, when you listen to these films without worry about their 'hit' status, you are stunned by what was being done. Even a movie like 'Kumbakonam Gopalu' has some lovely songs. (RS once asked me, "How can you expect a movie with such a name to have good songs?" :) ) I am not sure I would agree with the post KM assessment. There were some movies where the music was simpler but if you take the Malayalam films of the same period, there is nothing simple about them. 'Kochu Kochu Santoshangal', 'Friends' etc had very complex instrumentation and tunes. And ofcourse, 'Virumandi' and 'Mumbai Express' happened post KM. My feeling is that during these time Raja was trying to balance between his needs and the market needs, something which didn't have to do earlier in his career.
No Suresh. Infact "kaadhal vaaniley' and "mastaana" are the least liked ones, though quite popular then . Regarding post KM phase, my scope is only wrt tamil films around 1997-2001 period . I could sense a perceptible drop in quality , say in films like "naatupurapaatu", "veera thaalaattu","thalaimurai", "chinna durai", "poomani" etc where the tunes were predictable and lacklustre
http://rajamanjari.blogspot.com/
The laya raaja post aptly discusses a complex laya transition. there is also rhythm change as we transition from carnatic to WCM (or did we?). Awesome to listen and read. really I havent heard this song b4 and I am stumped .
Oh wasnt there the bass guitar that joins the veena in the second interlude with guitar and other WCM instruments?
I bow to thee Raaja.
I listened to the song "ilamanadhil" in is blog...one thing i have to accept it frankly i never paid attention to this once compared to other popular number from the movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaiganes
But to write an entire article about the song which ordinarily goes unnoticed ...this is only possible with raaja.. he put so much into a 5 min. song!!....
Rightly the blogger says "Music of the one and only Emperor of Music-Illaiyaraaja" :clap:
If there is so much to look forward from him same way for us to look backward and unearth the gems....I instantly fell in love with this number...
Jai,
Surprisingly this is one song that I have heard before !! Surprising because I haven't heard many of the rare songs of that era. I am not sure if Usha had posted this in the SOTD thread but I have certainly heard it. A wonderful Mayamalavagowla. This man somehow finds multiple facets of this raga. It never bores you but instead bores into your heart.
The songs he has chosen to analyse show something about the early Raaja of 80s. It was the early Raaja who wasnt sure where something was coming from - There was a distinct feeling that he needed to keep the Western Classical elements kinda separated from the carnatic/folkish and the go between was the Bass Guitar which he has rightly mentioned in his blog. then after a while in 80s and late 80s all became one family - there is no need for a bridge - They are all one now - for the listener this is when the troubles(happy troubles i mean) began - when does the Classical carnatic end and where does the Western classical begin? What is the boundary? Can be quite confusing in a pleasant way - Then he released two Konar notes in the form of How To name it and Nothing but wind and now Thiruvaasagam - Enough guides for us to enter the maze and come out whole.Quote:
Originally Posted by eagle
His choice of pantuvaraali (I got the explanation this blogger gave) is interesting (Isnt it the same raaga in Andhi mazhai pozhigiradhu?) Coz I traced some swaras back to Hamsanandi songs as well is also rather gutsy. while MSV and KVM used Raagas in film music, they went into the depths of raagas and distilled the essence of them to bring it out in one song, Raaja is a provocative experimenter seeing where all the contours of a raaga go and what all other strange forms it can meet and where can hand shakes to those forms be done.. It not only requires the dosage of Love (to accept all things on the other side of boundary), but also extreme guts and hard work that make a genius to do that .