IR's New albums - Ver 2008

'punnagayil minsaaram' seemed to be a catchy song - but nothing great to me initially. However after watching the MG.Sreekumar - IR interview for amirtha TV, this song has been in my mind as to how the composition was done.
Particularly considering how the words - syllables were split to bring in a 'rule less feel' which is in sharp contrast to how the words/syllables are treated with respect in regular raaja songs. If he feels that the song written by the poet does not sit on the tune perfectly, he asks the kavignar politely to substitute a different word instead of having the singer rush or stretch the word to suit the tune.
In this tune/song, the splitting of words to suit the tune is done in a chequered style matching the funky tune more than anything else.

'punn naga yil min saaram...'
instead of the more traditional
'punagayil minsaram' which would have been more bland.
again when 'nenjellaam' is stretched beyond the required maathirai, it is setup for the funky synth drum beats at the end.
The movie had awesome BGM score, some good action scenes, but overall was a very poor remake of 'ghayal'.

Mallepuvvu (Telugu) audio to release on 28th of this month:

http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/t...cle/40139.html

thanks,

Krishnan

A silent movie in Kannada (??) with music by IR. Movie name is "Mirror".

I guess, for a change, we don't have to expect an audio release :).

http://kannada.galatta.com/entertain...nce_17176.html

thanks,

Krishnan

uLiyin Osai - AhAh! How much time since we heard this kind of songs!!

I simply love 'abhinayam kAttukinRa AraNangE', good energy, excellent (effortless) singing by experts (unlike other songs in this album where one can feel some struggle - even for classically untrained ears like mine).

Add the grand string accompaniment!

My pick of the album!

Isn't the word "AraNangE" being used for the first time in TFM or are there prior instances?

That's another nice thing about this album - with the exception of azhagi varA that has totally irritating lyrics sung by irritating voices - veettukkAri kooda "ippdi" AkkippOda mAtta...yuck - (despite pleasing musical arrangement IMO, the second interlude is inimitable IR) - all songs have some nalla Thamizh!

Once urumi comes in, chOzha vaLa nAdu reaches a different, exotic plane:-) Nice ending..wish this pace started a little earlier in the song! Simply give IR words like 'oyilAttam, mayilAttam' and his enthu simply pichchukkittuppOyidum:-)

Wish he does more of such enthusiastic numbers! To this date, no song by any MD has surpassed the prelude of 'adiyEi manam nillunnA nikkAdhadee' in sheer energy! (and people release dozens of kuththuppAttu everyday)

"kAlaththai venRa" is in the "oLiyilE therivadhu dhEvadhaiyA'" mould and IR has used similar style of singers (infact the female voice is same). Alas, the difference is the changed rhythm arrangement in the UO song (very different from the azhagi song) which totally exposed the limitations of the singers:-( Had IR used a "running" style of rhythm, they could have been saved as the difficulties could get masked off, IMO.

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Wish he does more of such enthusiastic numbers! To this date, no song by any MD has surpassed the prelude of 'adiyEi manam nillunnA nikkAdhadee' in sheer energy! (and people release dozens of kuththuppAttu everyday)

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Thats the beauty of IR's music.He has churned out countless number of such kuthu songs, but there was rythem and harmony in all those kuthu songs.thats amazing you know, on the one hand you would enjoy the lively/energetic music on the other hand you dont get irritated coz there wasnt any rythem/harmony.

its realy difficult to have these qualities in such kuthu numbers, but IR did it with ease. ippa vara kuthu songs a ketta :x , hmm.. Athu oru kana kaalam!!!

Until the next album release keep listening to this composition from 'Namrata ke Saagar' :wink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86LscyJhNY
http://www.esnips.com/doc/454777ff-4...-Bhimsen-Joshi

Thanks Rajasaranam! I liked the song. Although, it has IR touches in it, it sounds a little different because of the orchestration (the way the rhythm starts is nice), Pandit's singing style (i have never heard non-classical so far!). Does the tune (including chorus portions) have more hindustani classical touch? Good bhajan like tune. I liked it. Need to listen in better quality.

thanks,

Krishnan