This is Ganani's article on TiO in the latest issue of his magazine Theem Thari Gita!
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This is Ganani's article on TiO in the latest issue of his magazine Theem Thari Gita!
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Originally Posted by Modeartor
kannansanderson,
link for pages 8 & 9 does not work...
kannansanderson,
None of the links work.. It says that the website has exceeded the amount of data transfer!!
All popular things will have some negative criticism :) None can escape this.
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RR,
Time has come to rename the thread "Comments on Anand's Outlook Article" into "Comments on criticism on TiS" and move all comments (including comments on gnani's) into that thread. :)
Yes.. lete's use this only for talking about the songs and it's quality and not other issues..
I would love to hear from experts on the intricacies of the tracks of TIS .. scales, instruments , chorus etc..
cheers
MSK
Forget about he experts!
TbI was not made for experts!
it was conceibved and composed by an expert for the common man!
that's how TbI should be approached.
If you go with your critical lenses and start analyzing it you will find 101 holes and everyone may appear to be legitimate and valid.
But, that was NOT the purpose of this great album.
Scholars already know Thiruvasagam; they need not be introduced to this.
Music experts have already heard many such classics; it is not to impress them that this was composed.
Glimpses of such fine tunings have already been introduced by IIR in his film songs and such experts may find similar tunes in this album to over 100 movies.
But, it is for the common man who hitherto hasn't known Thiruvasagam, its great lyrics, its adaptability to such catchy tunes, its richness to stay fresh even after mixing it with western orchestra, the clarity of each word exponently brought out by IIR with his soulful rendering, the divinity which could be extracted even from western musicians, be it a singer, a chorus or the orchesrta... these are the acheivements of TbI which catches the 'common man' and make him raise his collar in pride to see his mother tongue piece able to bring out the feelings within him on the very first hearing itself.
No one can, however expert he/she may be, deny the awe that surrounds him/ her when they heard it for the first time and only later, much later, that they started to feel those negative pointers that they are able to make out.
it is very interesting to note that all of them can only say the same few things.
Do you think IIR was not aware of this?
being an expert by himself, won't he have felt the same things that others pointed out?
It is that extra feeling, joy, awe, paravasam, that he must have felt overall when he heard the final version, that must have prompted him to send out as it is felling confident that the ordinary man will also fel the same and also would have felt blessed to have been introduced to such music in his/her lifetime.
having said all these, i am not trying to side with IIr but appeal to your senses to get out of your 'expert' feelings and come down to earth and look at this from a common man's view point! that's all i am asking.
Let us take the second song:
Leave alone all the nicest orchestration, pitfalls etc. etc. and try to visualize that song in this fashion as it appeared to me.
Just start the song and close your eyes and try to visualize a river taking its origin drop by drop and as the song progresses, try to follow along with that river's course-- its stagnating moments, gathering momentum moments, flowing moments, smooth sailing moments, little drops thru the rocks, slight increase in its force and finally the big falls [aruvi] ending its journey gleefully towards the great ocean[GOD] --and try to simulate a spiritual as well as natural experience!
You will understand what I mean!
I have said enough1
Thanks.
YIA!!
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Digression:
If any of the admins of Raajangahm are reading this thread, I have a couple of requests.
At the raaja.com site, none of the links in the top level menu work - either from Firefox or from IE.
A very earnest request - I hope you have the discography in a database like MySQL. Is it possible for creating a database dump and posting a link to the dump file somewhere in the raaja.com website? Either as MySQL dump or in some XML or whatever format. This info is very valuable - kudos to the people who created it. I have an ambitious project in mind for organizing my iPod. The discography db could be very very useful. I guess other fans will also be interested in getting access to this information.
Thank you,
Murali Rangan
Admin why did you delete my last posting?
discussion forumla konjam limit thanda kudatha?
OK. From IR avatar, it is wrong to put that type of comments.