IR New Albums - Old responses (5 Aug 2006)

album just rocks....khajirao, kaatril and konjam thira are just awesome and my favs in the album. other 3 songs are also good but nowhere near to these 3 songs.

rags

kajiraho is fantastic !!! it resembles to roja poon thottam from KN (also interlude music).

nonetheless, a great song.

songs available in coolgoose.com for downloads !!!

I was reading through some of the older TFM DF postings and came to know of a DC Hub and/or a dedicated FTP server from where folks used to download IR songs in mp3?Does any of these still exist?

My take on ONOK numbers - sour points for me - (i) the annoying synthetic stuff, be it percussion or the guitar riffs and (ii) absolute shocking absence of strings, violins in most of IR's recent albums - I reiterate once again, IR needs Kamal to come up with natural sounds/instruments;
without violins, IR composing music is like Shane Warne bowling with a lemon - why doesn't he use violin ensembles anymore ? - boohooooo, sob, sob from a HCIRF

Elamikku: JUNK - by IR standards - neither are the interludes inventive nor the tune itself - Sonu Nigam struggles in high pitch

Konjam Thira: interludes are OK - tune is so-so reminds me of 'Enna solli paaduvadho' (is it from Solla Marantha Kadhai ?)

Kharajo: ah! this song had ample oppurtunities for violins to fill in spaces, but IR choses synth violins - WHY ???
good tune - had it been embellished with violins, would have been sweeter - the one song that stays with you at the first listening

Katril Varum - reminds me of the Hindi classic 'Chandan sa badhan, chanchal shikuvan' - a gem nevertheless

Ponnukitta Mapillai - sounds like some T Rajendar composition, except for the second charanam which has typical IRish silken soft melody - a song like this by the IR of 80s, would have had terrific 'nayyandi' type guitar riffs and keyboard puches -

Enna Paattu - nice composition - might become popular soon, but the synth percussion is just blo*dy irritating!

overall, IR created immense oppurtunities for some opulent violin usage in this album, but shockingly refrains from using the same! WHY ?

The light drums in Kaatril Varum are just awesome. Sonu Nigam seems to be the latest crush of IR. It was Arunmozhi, then Hariharan, then it was Unnikrishnan for a very brief time. Now it is Sonu Nigam I see.

I especially liked the guitar piece in Khajuraho. After a few hearings I find the Ponnukitta mapillai number also very catchy.

Ponnukitta Mapillai also reminds me of 'Kalyana Tharagare' from Eeramana Rojavey

and also 'Marugo marugo' from Vetri Vizha

Teja, I like Sonu's singing and his voice, but I sort of agree with you that his voice becomes a bit over-zealous in high pitch. I dont know if its the uncomfort that is associated by singing in an alien language.

Yes, even I liked the silence that IR gives in some of his songs. In this song, silence is given in two places. One that comes before the first charanam starts and the second that comes after the second charanam finishes. Other songs that comes to my mind (but as far as I remember silence comes only in one place) are ENNAI THAALATTA VARUVAALA (KM) & THAVIKKIREN (TIME). In ETV (KM), the music that starts after the silence is just amazing! Suited the song situation to a T!

MumbaiRamki, even I felt the same about Sonu's accent at high pitches. It becomes something like Thanglish :). Yes, pallavi sounds very similar to Kommallo Kokila. Forgot to mention these in my comments. I was not able to download PONNUKKU MAAPPILLAI song! Agree with you that bass portions seems to be more prominent.

Inetk, I perfectly agree with your comments on the synth stuff that IR uses (and has become his style). Last weekend I was watching "Kadalora Kavithaigal" on some channel, one needs to feel the effect of strings sections, violins, flute, those bass portions, etc in songs like ADI AATHADI, Kodiyile and also POGUTHE POGUTHE.

thanks,

Krishnan

Was litening to Kajiraho again. The feel of the music somehow resembles a song from THODARUM. Forgot which one is that.

Krishnan

Krishnan,

That song may be "Shock adikkum poove.." from Thodarum.

Btw..

Did anyone feel this..?
The charanam of Kajiraho has similarities with "Kaadhal Maharaani.." from Kaadhal Parisu..