IR New Albums - Ver 2006

In Coffee with anu

Anu: If you have to attribute your success to one person who that would be?

Malaysia: Ilayaraja

Anu: Who is your favorite music director?

Srilekha Parthasarathi: I didnt sing for him yet. Ilayaraja.

Watched MK trailer in Vijay TV. It is not a trailer..just a slide show of Cheran and Navya !
The accompanying BGM was a nice WCM Violin piece sounding like the classical pieces that come in old English movies ( sometimes in Charlie Chaplin silent movies ).

It ended with "Viraivil.."

Hip Hip Hooray! "Mumbai Xpress" reviewed by a popular progressive music website "Sea of Tranquility"!

here is the link: http://www.seaoftranquility.org/revi...ontent&id=4824

enjoy! way to go IR!

I remember the bad reviews Mumbai Express received from some of our own fans claiming it to be IR turning into the dark side("westernised") when it was IR's favourite western forte of jazz. When we ourselves could not appreciate one of the best albums he has given us in decades how do we expect him to give us good and original songs nowadays. :x

Can you post the contents of
http://www.seaoftranquility.org/revi...ontent&id=3351


Thanks !

Ilayaraja: Ilayarajas Music Journey

Why ReR sent us this CD to review is a mystery. It isn't progressive, rock, metal or fusion - the genres we focus on here at Sea Of Tranquility. It is pure Indian music, characterized by sitar and percussion and those lilting, challenging melodies. Still - good music is abundant in every genre, and for those of us Westerners unfamiliar with the style, this one is actually refreshing and interesting. And it revives teenage memories of a bunch of us, bored in boarding school, sitting in a circle around a batch of burning jos sticks and zoning out to Ravi Shankar - quite convinced we were the coolest thing since the Beatles.

Calling himself 'Maestro Ilaiyaraaja', Ilaiyaraaja Raaja is something of a legend in his native India having composed more than 5,000 songs and scored over 800 Bollywood movies in various Indian languages. that may sound conceited, but let's face it - he is number 48 in the world's top-selling artists (behind celebrities like Elvis, The, Beatles and Led Zeppelin.)

Ilaiyaraaja's Music Journey was recorded live at the "14th annual Angelica, Festival Internatzionale di Musica & l'Altro Suono" in Modena, Italy, in 2004. It's a sort of 'unplugged with a live orchestra' performance, and it's interesting to hear the artist's lighthearted interaction with the audience in English while an interpreter translates into Italian.

The title track starts off with a sort of lullaby, then we're taken on a fascinating 10-minute walk through cultural Indian songs and traditions - with verbal descriptions and brief excerpts of the songs that convey the message musically. On many tracks Ilaiyaraaja is backed up by very pretty high-pitched female vocals - sung in the same Indian style, of course - and "Ilankathu" is a duet that sounds like a love song with 2 people singing to each other - and is a standout track (at least - from this ignorant Westerner's point of view). "Three In One" is a fun piece, introduced as a composition with just 3 notes. He actually cheats and uses a half-note here and there, and he goes up an octave as well - which robs the original idea of a song in three notes. Still, it's an interesting idea showing that that melody has as much to do with rhythm and cadence as with a selection of notes. The song selection cover various sub-genres including carnatic, hindustani, devotional, and others that will challenge your spell-checker.

Besides being proficient in a variety of Indian instruments Ilayaraja is well trained in classical guitar, and judging by the performance on this record, he has a good grasp of how to sway a western audience. So considering the genre, there's a surprising variety of sounds from track to track.

This record is different, fun, and as the title suggests, a real musical journey.

Track Listing:
1. Aaya Kalaigal
2. Paavana Guru
3. Sunoi Oh!
4. Mayil Pola
5. Janani
6. Music Journey (Lullaby and Games of Tamil Nadu)
7. Elankaathu
8. Three in one (introuduction)
9. Three in one
10. Aasaiya Kathula
11. Veettukku
12. Orchestra (mood Kapi)
13. Mathacha


Added: March 14th 2006
Reviewer: Duncan Glenday
Score: 3.5
Related Link: http://www.raaja.com
Hits: 914
Language: english

what abt mumbai Xpress?
http://www.seaoftranquility.org/revi...ontent&id=4824

Mumbai Ramki,

Is that URL blocked for you ?

btw..shall we all come to an agreement to keep this thread for only IR's new and upcoming albums ?

Because people see some new posting come to this page and get disappointed that it is about something else !

Andha alavukku IR's new album-kaaga Yengi Yengi Kaanju poyirukkom :(

New initiative: En Paiyar Enna

Directior Arpudan had made an attempt to highlight about the social soreness in his short film named as “En Paiyar Enna”, in this film Master Kishore is featuring in lead role. Director Arpudan, is known from earlier films like Mandodu Malzli kalam & Arpudam. But this film has some thing special from his previous films.

In a simple function of the this film’s CD release held at South Indian film chamber, in the presence of Rajathi Amma ( Dr.Karunanidhi’s Wife ) released the film C.D and it was received by Dashto Indra rani wife of Malaysian minister. After seeing the film Indra outlined the performance of Master Kishore kumar’s acting and she assured Kishore in lending assistance regarding making of the film. At the same time he pointed out Govt to undertake the welfare of orphans in larger scale to completely annihilate this kind of menace from the society.

The outline of the story is simple enough to understand by common people, an orphan child how is striving to get into studies and how far he succeed in this race is crux of the story. Master Kishore succeeds in doing the character which assigned to him, after seeing the film Director Bala, was convinced to give a role to Kishore kumar in his forthcoming film “Naan kadavul”. Apart from that many old hands appreciated both director and master Kishore kumar for their valid contribution to the society. Interesting news about this film his there is no Dialogue, Music scored by Illayaraja was played a pivot play in filling the Dialogue column.

Yes - It is blocked .Ur point is too valid .So what do we do ?

Can you post it in some other thread ?
Thanks !