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India Day 2005 is planned to be celeberated on Aug 15th in Michigan at Novi Expo Center. It is such a big event that last year, there were around 15,000 people who thronged there.
It is such a nice opportunity to promote TbI. I am positive that we can move as many as 200 easily. But, unfortunately, due to certain personal committments, I am not available that week in Michigan.
Anyone in Michigan willing to volunteer? Pls. PM me at mohanjraman@gmail.com
emjay, as you may be aware, Novi & the surrounding area has a strong Telugu speaking community and marketing this (predominantly) as a WCM work by Raja will help...
A couple of months back I was seeing some Raja related photos on indiaglitz while at work...and our tech lead (a Telugu lady) who came to my seat remarked to another Indian (an Assamese) that this man is the great music composer from south...I think a lot of Telugu speaking people feel the same way & probably you can move bigger volumes if you target them (as they say, music has no language barriers)...
app_engine,
Absolutely. This is a terrific opportunity. Unfortunately, my personal plans are coming in its way. Don't want to let this loose. Lets see if anyone from MI can volunteer this effort.
The booth costs $150 but, if we share with someone, we can even get to $75.
Please listen to this plea and if you really want to do something for this great album, then please make one more person buy this album or you may buy one as a gift for your kith and kin. We need to sell another 3000 CD's to make it even with our loans and hope you will act now.
I am confident that it will eventullay sell out but you all can hasten it by coing to our help now1
Thanks
YIA!!
"umgalai nambiththaan idhil eedupatten; ippodhum ungalaiththaan nambugiREn!"
www.tis-usa.com
Folks, if you are in the SF Bay Area, please pick up a free copy of the thenRal magazine Aug issue. Manivannan (of Bay Area Tamil Sangam) has devoted a very large part of the magazine to the coverage of TIO, with IR on the cover and interviews with Father. Very interesting read. If you know Manivannan, please send him an email appreciating this.
BTW, please bring up TIO in email/telephone and personal conversations with people. This will spread awareness of the album.
My sincere thanks to Mr. Manivannan for boldly bringing out the role of the US NRI's which has not so far been PROPERLY recognized even by IIR!
Please read the article on 'america thamizhargaLin pangu' and I am ever grateful to him for this!!
Pl. encourage your friends and family to read this article and also help us by buying more copies of this CD!
www.tis-usa.com
YIA!!
anbudan
sankarkumar
Good news everyone! read on :
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"Madhan,
I've been extremely busy this past few weeks but have been able to listen to the CDs in the car. Thank you for sending them - it's always good to discover new composers and I enjoyed the CDs though perhaps not appreciating the cultural significance of some works.
The mfiles site has a strong emphasis on film music and I note that Raja has written music for 100s of films. I am therefore thinking of adding him to the mfiles film composer section.
Jim Paterson
jim@mfiles.co.uk
mfiles - the music files
http://www.mfiles.co.uk
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mfiles website is a major attraction for music agents all over the world and Mr.Jim Paterson will also feature a detailed description of TiS, HTNI and NBW in his website!
Efforts are on other fronts as well - keep your fingers crossed buddies!!
PS: TiS outcome is becoming as thrilling and fascinating as the current Ashes series (Eng and Aus) - Shane Warne's rippers filled six-for followed by a Bothamesque show by Flintoff!!
Review of Polla Vinayen by a carnatic musician/music composer (name removed for identity reason). I met him in a store where he was looking for TIS CD and found out that he compose his own (fusion) music and release CDs. I asked him what kinda music he likes and not so surprisingly, he said he is Raja fan. Anyway coming to the review
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The main piece of this album "Poyyavinaiyen" is a
brilliant piece of work. As a composition, a great
attempt has been made to mix Tamil and English vocals
in an opera style symphony. The song opens with an
orchestration resembling "Kanna Varuvaya" from the
film "Manadhil Urudhi Vendum". For those familiar with
Raaja's work in film music, a lot of these
orchestrations in various Indian Raagas have been
brilliantly set to reach the common man.
This treat is especially for the connoisseur of music,
especially those who can appreciate music as a
manifestation of divine energy.
The lyrics discusses the evolution of mankind and the
eventual merging of the individual soul with the
supreme. The music traces these soul evolution and
culminates in a crescendo set to ragam "Hamsanandhi"
with the finale of the "OM". Raaja has cleverly
handled a soothing tune for "Namashivaya Vazhga" in
Kalyani ragam very much like a silence after a storm.
Towards the end of the work, the choice of Ragam -
Shanmugapriya for the verses praising Lord Shiva is
very apt.
The violins galloping in various places is typical of
a symphony and is very well written for the various
carnatic ragams used.
The album is bound to kindle lot of interest in
Manickavaasagar's songs.
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njv,
Why is your review so unbelievable; first you don't want to reveal the person's name. Very strange, what is so secretive about reviewing TiS. Secondly you met him while he was looking for the CD and yet you managed to get such insightful review from him, is it on the spot or what???!!!
If you want to make it authentic you don't have to play such scams.
TISK,
also please stop urging us to buy one more CD. We have all done our part and finally I have bought my own original CD from Singapore. Even though my whole campus TLS members were waiting to buy the original, you folks were simply sitting on it and did not even bother to get it supplied to our distributors on time. Some of us got so sick of your incompetencies, that including myself we downloaded our TiS from the web. Don't blame us!!! I finally got mine when my uncle returned from Chennai and I asked him to get me a copy on the way. He could not get the complete set as I wanted. He could only get the audio without the video!!!Not my fault again. You people promised so much and then did such a sloppy job in marketing and promoting the product. At least you could have got the CDs to the main distributors in time......but no I have been observing you all basically "kundu sattikulla kuthure ottigal" mathiri basically doing a cheap and unreliable MLM scheme of marketing and that too all for free!!! Please you could have made this a blockbuster, for the amount of free publicity that you have got from all media forms for free also. Yet without showing any figures of actual sales done so far , you are still asking the same old folks to buy more. Where is the logic and fairness in this please tell me.
njv,
Why is your review so unbelievable; first you don't want to reveal the person's name. Very strange, what is so secretive about reviewing TiS. Secondly you met him while he was looking for the CD and yet you managed to get such insightful review from him, is it on the spot or what???!!!
If you want to make it authentic you don't have to play such scams.
TISK,
also please stop urging us to buy one more CD. We have all done our part and finally I have bought my own second copy original CD from Singapore. Even though my whole campus TLS members were waiting to buy the original, you folks were simply sitting on it and did not even bother to get it supplied to our distributors on time. Some of us got so sick of your incompetencies, that including myself we downloaded our TiS from the web. Don't blame us!!! I finally got mine when my uncle returned from Chennai and I asked him to get me a copy on the way. He could not get the complete set as I wanted. He could only get the audio without the video!!!Not my fault again. You people promised so much and then did such a sloppy job in marketing and promoting the product. At least you could have got the CDs to the main distributors in time......but no I have been observing you all basically "kundu sattikulla kuthure ottigal" mathiri doing a cheap and unreliable MLM scheme of marketing and that too all for free!!! Please you could have made this a blockbuster, for the amount of "free" publicity that you have got from all media forms including TV channels and radio channels. Yet without showing any figures of actual sales done so far , you are still asking the same old folks to buy more. Where is the logic and fairness in this please tell me. Buy now we should have been told exact sales figures, which we are all sure is very very good from what we have abserved and heard from friends all over.
thanks njv for the review...however, it just goes to show how a good musician need not be a good reviewer.
NOM, to you or the musician, NJV.
I met him last Sunday and I posted the reivew 1 week after. I cant give another person's review with his name in a public forum, specially where cheap minded people like you come and visit, so thats why I removed the name.Quote:
Originally Posted by ezy0265
If you are open minded, just give full details of you when you disucss in this forum, and you will see what I mean by "Privacy". You dont know, but only TISK and I know that another person who discuss in this forum, got almost sued for some postings.
LBNL, get some good life.
aa,
what's the link about ? It says the page isn't avbl.
Its the India today cover story on Ilayaan... sorry if its already been posted here...Quote:
Originally Posted by Shankar
I think there's a temporary problem with the link....
Try this one..
http://www.geocities.com/am_aanand/raaja_it_05.html
AA
thanks, very nice and very well written article. IR deserves it.
Read what Stephen Schwartz had to say after listening to the complete Cd last week, at www.tis-usa.com.
YIA!!
aa, excellent work...the editorial is really good...
BTW, did India Today have anything at all related to TbI in their regular English (all-India) edition?
Fantastic!! Thanks India Today!
Namba Raaja cute aa yerukka! MSV kooda bhavyamaa happyaa yerukka :) Balukooda jollyaa kattikkara :D Raaja use balu again in your music, adhudhaan aasai!!
Dear 'ezy2005',
I think you must have comne from MARS or you haven't been following this thread at all. I am not hurt by your comments but feel sorry for your ignorance.
Tis-USA has NOTHING to do with the distribution but is only doing it as an additional service[burden?!] to get this great CD in the hands of our US fans who have done so much for making this happen, which fact has not been recognized nor acknowledged by those concerned including IIR so far!
This is a fact and everyone who is a regular in this thread knows this as a fact and your careless comments are really uncalled for!
Tis-USA IS not in charge of the distribution[especially overseas], which solely rests in the hands of IIR and I request you and anyone else concerned of this to write to IIR personally to take the necessary action!
Don't provoke us!
YIA!!
"which fact has not been recognized nor acknowledged by those concerned including IIR so far! "
Thats sad.
I have always thought that TIS-USA wasnt properly acknowledged. In most interviews Fr. Gasper would talk about his own loans and not aword about the NRI contribution. I hope someone tells IR that without TIS-USA, TIS would have been just his dream and little else.
TISK,Quote:
Originally Posted by TISK
you are wasting your time here. These people doesnt expect an answer from you. They are just trying to provoke. Like I mentioned before they have got "free" internet connection and using it.
I'm sorry, njv. I just lost my cool for a moment and promise that it wont happen again!
Thanks.
But, Fr.jegath is a good man and please leave him out of this.
YIA!
AA, Thanks for the link, nice article.
One thing for sure, IMHO, IR looks like he has opened up a lot especially after TIO, almost every interview and his speech on the CD launch ceremony seem more apt than his interviews in the past. He also looks more energetic and vibrant ( adhu daan namakku thevai), so many new movies in pipeline ( despite him saying "niraiya projects pannra idea irukku).
( listening to "Pollavinayaen' right now and waiting for IR's "Namashivaya Vaazhga" line before "Maasattra sodhi" to squeeze the life out of my body everytime, like unplugging a massive robust machine from a power source with just 1 button in the flick of a second..Oh my God..... we need more and more Maestro despite this)
I don't know, if the SS channel coverage ever showed, Rev.Fr.Jegath's speech on that day, I left my videotapes in India from my personal recording, I will upload it sometime next month, at one point he made this very affirmative statement , "Innum sariyaga 2 varudathukkul, indha Isaithoguppukku kandippaga "Grammy Isai" parisai perumpadiyaga seyvom enra vaakurudhiyai Isaignani kku inru naangal azhikkirom", I might not have replicated verbatim. There was huge applause, if I remember either then or some other time, IR raised his hands up,symbolising YIA.
Without any question, this work is beyond "Grammy Award", and "Grammy Awards" committiee should be proud of themselves honouring such monumental work. But in reality, there needs to be a lot of PR/background lobbying needs to be done especially these kind of projects despite being extraordinary. I am sure Rev.Fr.Jegath is working for that, I just wanted to ask "Stephen Shwartz" in his forum, about possibility of nomination and required ground work towards this, since himself and Richard King are involved. who are already winners of Oscar and Grammy respectively.
Prabhudas
The question was asked before and he mentioned that IR's PR will do this, since he dont have anything to say on this. So...Quote:
Originally Posted by prabhudas
I just hope that Fr Jegath does something here cuz he truly deserve grammy and much more. I was listening to BBC's "Pattondru Kettaen" from 34 to 45 and unbelievable. When you listen to TFM, you just like it cuz it feels good, but there are so many complex part in IRs music. One of the song was from Raajaparvai where IR used western classical and then carnatic and then hindustani followed by a Ghazal interlude and what not. Is he god or what? Its 12:20 AM and still couldnt get sleep after listening to sample Moods Of Illayaraja album. Another excellent one and must buy. Hope the CD will be out very soon.
I am not sure if these links have been posted here already: Here are some links to reviews on the Thiruvasakam album:
http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/artic...rticle_id=2608
http://www.indianguitartabs.com/arch...p/t-11169.html
njv,
where did you listened to samples of Moods of Raja :?:
rajasaranam,
Pl go to www.agimusic.com and there Future releases. There is one 1 min sample of a track, which is based on Guru film's theme.
Thanks venky :)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mod
There should be some way of stopping the websites putting up TBI and allowing viewers to download. Lot so people I have apporoched say that they already have the songs downloaded and are unwilling to buy. I am not sure if this is just an excuse or the songs are out there somewhere to download.
Is there anyway to sue this people if we find that they have put up the songs on the web?
Anyone from Philadelphia willing to volunteer
http://www.indiacouncil.org/
They have cultural program and expecting around 6000 people across india, but since its conducted by Telugu people, I expect more south indians than others and the table is only $100.
I am going there anyway since my kid is participating but if someone can give me a hand, we can promote TIS.
Even if 10% of them are Tamil we have 600 people and if only 10% buy the CDs, its 60 copies. It doesnt make business sense, but TIS will be popular.
Dear njv - can you check your mails and also your inbox here pls ?
Jeera, your attitude is wrong. Just because some people download TIS, you want to sue them, what about other people who download Film music albums? Say you want to sue all people who made the songs downloadable on the net. Thats valid. Even their albums are from hard earned money.Quote:
Originally Posted by jeera
I'm with you alias.
Let's sue all of them. touchy! touchy!!
:lol:
'manam kaavalaa? 'mouse' kaavalaa?!!!!!!!!!!!!
:-) :lol:
TISK,
Here is the link that has instructions on how to make our album listed in BORDERS book store.
http://www.bordersgroupinc.com/artists/publishers.htm
-Mohan
Thanks a lot! Will follow it up and will let you all know! YIA!!