thiruvasakam in symphony

Shankar and others the review in Indiaglitz is the first genuinely balanced review written on this album - hats off to Indiaglitz!!

TIS will be played in Bridgewater Temple (NJ, USA) on Monday evening (thats the "timeslot" they have for Lord shiva!!!!).

One of the priest who listened to it says "Its a must to have for temples". He rated this product very high from "religious" perspective and he was very impressed with the first song.

Efforts are on the way to play TIS in temples around NY/NJ area.

Also, I will post the review by Ashok Shukla, sound engineer. Ashok Shukla was a sound engineer for lot of well known movies and he worked in few Tamil movies as well. His first tamil movie was "Oomai Vizhigal".

You can find his work at

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1107742/

Mr Ashok Shukla is a great fan of IR. He said he is going to review the album only from orchestraization (spelled right?) perspective. After 1st week when I talk to him to get the review, he said, he couldnt pass the first two songs, and he is hearing them again and again. He never had time to go beyond the first two songs. Today he said he is almost completed and will give me some review.

I will also post the review by a Western classical (violin/vocal) music teacher in a week. She love indian music and for that reason ended up marrying an indian (poor girl, this guy has no ears! I mean music ears!) whom she met in India during her trip to Chennai to learn carnatic music.

'Shankar's and NJV's' posts are real sweet on this Monday Morning!

I am saying at least a 100 times 'Thank You, Lord' for giving us the opportunity to associate with this project and the count is already 8 sofar[counting those Paypal Orders and these posts!!]for today!

Friends, as said earlier, we have more work to do. All those who have bought this great album, please get one more for your friend or your family or encourage them to purchase one to finally heave a sigh of relief!

Thank you! [9!]
YIA!

TIS now available at India Mart, Irving, Texas (972) 438 6865 .

TIS will be available (in couple of days) at Bombay Video (Devon st) Chicago from this week.(773) 743-5575

Fans in respective area, please buy TIS from them so that they can order more.

TISK Sir & All

Our next target should be to sell TIS for retailers. Even if you bought TIS already, please go to your video store and ask for TIS. Once they see the demand, they will try to buy atleast few copies.

Thanks
NJV

HERE IS SOMETHING FOR YOUR PERUSAL AND PASS-OVER TO YOUR FRIENDS.
THIS CAN BE HAD FROM OUR WWW.TIS-USA.COM SITE.
PL. PASS IT ON.
THANKS.
YIA!
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walrus,

which symphonix? The RPO one? I have no idea how it "looks", also even if I had I cannot say whether its good/bad.

Anyway i assume your question is about TiS.

"Astreriks" my answer. Definitely i feel TiS unsuits me, i mean, my name :)

Though I have added a full-stop it is upto you to assume a colon after the word "answer" and a comma after "Astreriks" ;)

Review by IndiaGlitz ... reflects most of my thoughts on listening to TBI. I am not a good writer ... I was happy to see some of my similar thoughts are neatly presented... like the 4th song which has very good malayalam flavour with pure tamil lyrics suported by both Indian and Western instruments.
... Sai

I could feel that everybody agrees to the fact that TBI is first of its kind. But, there seems to be couple of common thoughts expressed by folks (in different blogs, websites):

Lot of people seem to have problem with IR singing most of the songs. One observation was that the instruments used & arrangements weren't grand enough as one would expect from a Symphony.

1) "IR is off-key at few places" - AGREED.
"His voice seems to be old" - AGREED.
"He is not able to scale enough with his voice" - AGREED.

How does that matter in THIS album?
Having agreed to all of the 3 above, I love to disagree completely with the argument that "Unni, Hariharan" would have done a better job.

I have often wondered why the pointer on the AC control unit points at 60 F looking at it from my bed or from my desk. Then, when I went near it...I found that it was because there is something called "Parallax Error"

Let me explain what you might already know: "Error that can be introduced when not reading an instrument directly from its front, due to the separation of the indicator and the scale being read."

The same is happening to so many people.. Voice has various attributes. Scaling is one of them. He might have not outscored in Scaling. Come on!! Have you ever questioned why "Pithukuli Murugadas"'s voice not soft?

Whenever I hear to "Murugadas"'s voice... I think of "Chinna Kannan" dancing in front of him...and he melts while praising Him.

IR has melted and has succeeded in melting thousands of souls with his divine voice...
If you see "off key" here.. you are having "Parallax Error" (not in vision) but in music...
So, my prescription to you is try to come to the RIGHT Plane to join the journey..

What matters the MOST in this album are:

a) Delivering the DIVINITY to thousands of SOULS.
b) Making the younger generation look back at Thiruvasagam, a great epic.
c) Delivering in musical form without distorting its beauty with RIGHT Pronounciation.

Did IR succeed? A Big YES!!

His objective succeeded!!

2) He is not proving his musical competencies here..He has done that already to the world.
This album is to deliver Thiruvasagam in musical form to make younger generation aware!!
He is not trying another GURU here...

As a software developer, I might know 100 technologies, components. But, I apply only those based on the problem I attack, client I deal & budget that I have.
Quite as simple as that..

Rest my case.