thiruvasakam in symphony

baroque,

I am in the bay area and I got the CD delivered on Wednesday itself. I had ordered around 15-20th of July.

- Murali

PLEASE ANYBODY TELL ME WHERE IN CHENNAI I CAN GET THE CDs !!!!
I AM DESPARATE
I am in Chennai this weekend, so PLEASE TELL ME !!!

Friends, good news! - one international (technical) music journal is currently reviewing HTNI, NBW and I24HRs and wonder of wonders, one of the review editors decided to review "Mumbai Xpress" as ethnic jazz(!!) - soon, maybe in a month or two, an indepth review of these albums would be publsihed in that journal - since that journal is highly/widely cited and is a much sought-after journal in major music schools, orchestras, IR should be known around the world by then

Soon, TiS will be reviewed for publication in this journal besides two very popular websites, known for their classy reviews of works by composers like John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, John Debney, Howard Shore, Don Davis, Elmer Bernstein, John Barry and many others - the editor who runs one of these websites has already conveyed his readiness to review TiS

Let us now hope and pray for the best

Having listened to TiS firsthand, after its release last week, I am at a complete loss of words to describe my experience - perhaps, the other experience that comes close to this, was when I first saw a Michelangelo painting, or read a Wordsworth poem, or when I fantasised of an azure landscape where there is neither pain nor pleasure, only serene bliss!

Indian mysticism, spiritual traditions are centered around the concept of birth and death caught in a continous cylce , also called CHAURASI - and SOUND plays an essential role in Indian metaphysical concepts

Maestro.Ilaiyaraaja has brought expression to these mystical concepts using music with mind blowing use of Western classical and Indian classical idioms, straddling a middle path and the result is indescribable

We live in a world where modern science says 'Everything is a system even elementary particles (if you believe string theory)!!'

Throughout his musical career, be it in his film compositions or non-film albums such as HOW TO NAME IT?, NOTHING BUT WIND, or INDIA 24 HOURS, Maestro has adventurously explored 'n' number of idioms, genres, and proven time and again that 'music is also a system' and cannot be differentiated into one genre or class and by debunking all existing norms, he has given rise to his own systems approach to music, where the output symbolises the systems approach that 'the whole is greater than sum of parts!'

With TiS, he takes his self-created systems approach to music to an all-time high!

More than a decade ago, Joseph Eagar of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra prophesised thus "This man's (Maestro.Ilaiyaraaja) music will be heard throughout the world over the next millennium."

With TiS, that prophecy is likely to be fulfilled !

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pls someone throw some light on INdia 24 hours. is it an album by IR. i had never heard of that before.

Posting again :(

PLEASE ANYBODY TELL ME WHERE IN CHENNAI I CAN GET THE CDs !!!!
I AM DESPARATE
I am in Chennai this weekend, so PLEASE TELL ME !!!

I am posting this after a vague listening of thiruvasagam, by IR.
IR ‘s name will be there in history along with Manikkavasagar and GU Pope.
While hearing, I was just praying, “kadavulae nallaa irukkanumae…” like any diehard fan of IR.
Bhavatharini’s “Poothumbi” had put me to tears, and it will be the most liked song in this album,atleast in the first hearing. The song put me into a different world, I just related this song with a butterfly that flies around a garden. It is that energetic. I cant understand the lyrics, probably it is based on a “thumbi”.For the past 2 days, my mind is full of this song. The music has fitted so nicely into the words. Other thing , the energy the orchestra provides parallelly with the human voices. I wished IR could have come out with a version of this song without voice. The orchestration is beyond words. Ilaiyaraaja avargalukku kodi namaskaaram.
I believe this song is based in Sudhadhanyasi???

rajeshrs_tvm,

Vayatherichalai kelappaatheenga :(

Where did you buy the CD..? Is it available only in Music world or in all audio shops..?

It is not 'Poothumbi', it is "kothumbi' - it means 'ko' + 'thumbi' - king of bees/flies - Manickavasagar is apparently conversing with the 'kothumbi' that the honey it is seeking for in the flowers is nothing compared to the sweeter than honey nectar, one can experience from Bhakthi, through esoteric spiritual practice on the spiritual plane, or from the Dharshan or beatific vision of the Beloved LORD!

I would say, IR's composition is sweeter than the honey the 'kothumbi' is seeking!!