IR New Albums - Ver 2006

Sarah yeh alam....
Somebody mentioned.. that it gives them tears... very true....Gawd.. where is this IR? .. I wish he can retune/resync... all this melodies before he becomes mortal...

Dheemi-Dheemi is mind boggling !!! AWESOME work.. i have it on repeat for over an hour now..

Cheers
MSK

I was listening the songs...Raja's orchestration and instrumentation is at a all time best. Dheemi Dheemi(hope no tune is reused here) is certainly Raja's melodic masterpiece but the song that impressed me most is sharath sharath. The chorus is extremely soulful and if the orchestration had been more adrenaline like adadada from pithamagan it would have rounded off the album well.

If this album is not accepted in hindi i dunnot know what else will..looking forward to Cheeni Kum..:2thumbsup:

just a question folks... i try to download the .rar file.. its says its size is 65MB.. but then it dowloads only about 2 mb and says it completed download....
and then when i try to extract it .. it gives me an error...
I also tried to download other files from the site.. it gives me the same problem...
any help??

Guys...keep those reviews coming..we all needed something to cheer us all up really after somewhat a long dry spell, right ? :-)
dheemi ..dheemi..looks like IR probably felt insulted they were using his old songs and come up with a high-energy song that just listening to it..you will be gasping for breath (kudos to Shreya on the singing). If anybody is mistaken that this is one of those soft , melodious 'little girl tunes' by the pallavi they are woken up by the anupallavi and by the charanam time.. they will be in a daze..
In times, when MDs are happy to craft a catchy pallavi and stuff the rest of it with some fluff and pass the whole thing as a song.. IR delivers value for money with a weighty complex pallavi.. the song might be fast ..but it is no fast food..a full banquet. I think this song could be a popular hit as well along with the Kaise song which remind me of 'Maine Pyar Kiya/Aashiqui' times (in the sense that the hindi audience might find it familiar).

Saara ye Alaam..thanks to the director for picking this song..No MD alive right now (probably even IR :-)) could do a composition like this. The audience should consider themselves fortunate to hear this..A WCM prelude and a very good indian tune. The song is played with electronic bass, some bell like ostinato, vocals and strings for the most part. All those people used to dancing to hiphop beats may have to pull their hair out listening to the various threads of melodies (counterpoints). But in the north people may still not like this and might feel it is 'south indianish'. Oh well..

Yes, Josh Mein is cliched (with the pithamagan prelude )..because of the brass instruments..even Rahman whose success is based on avoiding cliches used brass instruments in similar situations I think).
I grudgingly agree with some of you :-) ..IR is not good in that shapath song. He definitely can sound better..maybe could have gone for another take. It also seems his singing is a litte measured/slow to get the pronounciation right.

Overall, IR has maintained his style, except for letting the drums to be recorded at a higher level. The recording showcases all the orchestration tricks/techniques of IR very well . You will notice every note has a purpose. This is not layers of tinkling sounds . This one of the most acoustic albums I have heard in recent times (after M. Express). Nobody would have heard this much of drum work (especially Josh Mein) in recent times (was drums Sivamani involved ?).
Like some of you .. I am eagerly looking forward to cheeni kum.
(Thanks to rs for the song upload)

No wonder RGV called it a very contemporary album!

Can somebody upload the installer for WInrar in rapishare.de? I can't download .exe in my office.

SO ,when uploading the installable ,please rename it as .abc and then upload.

Thanks for ur help !!!

Rajasaranam,
Thanks.
Im heard the songs .On the first hear ,atleast 3/6 of the songs will get good attention among the northees..

The sound is quite contemporary and the recording is quite good...THe bass lines are quite prominent in all songs ..FRESH :)

Very Good Album !
Lyrics seem to be too nice, especially "Dheemi Dheemi" portion goes well with the tune.
The guitar portion in this song reminds of "Kajuraho.." song in ONOK.

Its strange that no northy site has posted a review yet...IndiaFM is usually prompt (but I dont necessarily like their reviews) but Shiva is not up yet!