http://www.eians.com/stories/2005/07/19/19vic.shtml
at least some reports say ONOK & AOKK have good sales:-)
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http://www.eians.com/stories/2005/07/19/19vic.shtml
at least some reports say ONOK & AOKK have good sales:-)
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Do You Know Who Illayaraja Is?
Those were the early days of Illayaraja in the film industry. Music Director of that time, Chakravarthy used to have great impression on Illayaraja. Once, the topic of Illayaraja has come before Chakravarthy in a recording studio. A person commented Illayaraja out of his ignorance in music.
Chakravarthy told him, “Do you know who Illayaraja is? While goddess Saraswathi’s son had been crying, she went inside to get some milk for him. Meanwhile he crawled and came here. He is none other than Illayaraja. He is the son of goddess Saraswathi. We have no stand to comment on him”.
That’s all. Everybody in the studio turned silent for a few minutes including the one who commented the ‘Maestro’.
http://www.greatandhra.com/movies/ne...araja_who.html
Guys, where can i get Ilayaraaja's music journey Cd in India. Any update would be great.
Of all the composers, Chakravarthy should be mentioned!!! This composer' name was as ubiquitous on the radio as Shankar Jaikishan'. Oliyum Oliyum only featured this composer' songs, which showed Telugu industry was suffering for years with the worst numbers as no one else was there beside Sathyam, I thought until I finally found this magical song in coolgoose.com, which I always was Sathyam' finest compositions. (This was one of the most popular songs on Ilankai Oliparappu .. in the late 70s!!!)\\Quote:
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http://web.music.coolgoose.com/music/song.php?id=180074
"ramba oorvasi menaka" from vedanai thediya maan (in telugu original i believe) only few days back i found this rare rare song, searching for years!
look at the fantastic and unique opening melody and the amazing interludes(strangely, Salilish interludes)!!! simply the best. Any more great Chakravarthy songs, please share the info.
Looks like Raja just finished composing for another movie - 'Madhu' *ing Ramesh and Priya Mani:
http://thatstamil.indiainfo.com/spec...riyamani6.html
Today I watched singer Manjari's interview in Asianet.
She mentioned the songs in the following YET to be released movies of IR .
The list is
1. Chidambarathil oru appasamy by Thankar.
2. Kasthuri maan of meera Jasmine.
3. Pokkisham by Cheran.
4. ONOK by Fazil
Watch out SS Music at 12.00 P.M on Sunday.
A programme on IR !!!!!
I saw the program....Raja was surprisingly camera friendly (I mean generally he seems quite uncomfortable before the camera, but here he was quite cool)...They showed the recording of the oratorio, interview with laszlo kovacs, and a few musicians...I hope these things are present in the TiS DVD. Finally, got a chance to see who the trio who have always been with Raja...Vijay manuel (keyboard), Sada (guitarist ) & Purushottaman (puru - percussionist), and a person named sundararajan & napoleon (arun mozhi)...Quote:
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Raja mentioned a few things...his regular musicians wanted to contribute in some way for the TiS, so Raja decided to make use of them in some way...napoleon played a small flute portion, some guys did the chorus (tamil chant), and vijay manuel sang the 'track' for the lyrics written by stephen schwartz & based on that voice, they zero'ed in on Ray harcourt.
Vaiko deserves a special mention....He said he had listened to the album some 20 times before he landed for the launch and what a speech it was !!
Raja seemed awestruck by his knowledge, and when his chance came, Raja said, vaiko's speech was more like a religious talk...and wondered why he was still in politics.
Vaiko went through each verse and was explaining why the songs were arranged by raja in that fashion...His knowledge of thiruvAsagam seems good.
He in fact quoted (almost verbatim) the message Stephen schwartz had posted in his website (" Last night I had the chance to listened to finished....in sony studio....")
When Raja came to speak, he spoke rather fluently, and while thanking people like Rajni, vaiko and others, he took a (friendly) dig at kamal - "kamal kadavuLai nambubavar alla...KadavuLum kamalai nambi illai...avar vElayai avar seithukoNdirukkirAr" or something to that effect.
Another interesting thing was, they showed the video of the recording in Budapest...the score could be heard feebly (without the vocals of Raja/indian chorus), from what i could gather in those coupla minutes, if someone can get the music version alone (stripped of Raja's voice and the Indian chant), it would by itself be a great score (of course, you have to ignore the repeated notes played in the BG as they are meant to support the vocals) !!!
Is there a way to do it ??
(Pls don't assume I don't like Raja's voice...I just wished to listen to just the score alone)
Shankar - I saw the program as well - even I was amused at the dig IR took at Kamal's 'Naathhigam'! but after saying "KadavuLum kamalai nambi illai..." he added thus "KadavuL Ilaiyaraajavai nambiyum illai - avar vElayai avar seithukoNdirukkirAr"
My one sore point with everyone who talk about God in public is this:in their excitement, I see only their own "Ego", even
while talking about God!
If ur living in Chennai, you can get it at Shanti tailors, right next to Kapaleeshwarar temple, MylaporeQuote:
Originally Posted by Osho