MK trailer - cheran appears to be a more polished TRajendar in the rather naive way in which he explains his whatever he has in mind!
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MK trailer - cheran appears to be a more polished TRajendar in the rather naive way in which he explains his whatever he has in mind!
After a looooong time, I was completely bowled over by the first interlude of the yelae yenge from mayakannadi.
One thing that seems to be apparent to me is that songs of IR these do not sound good on any web version or low quality version and they are made for good sound systems and good quality. It was not the case before.
I like anumanaspadam from recent times...and that too only after few listens. I still miss the grandeur and charm of his earlier music. Earlier today, I was listening to Malayoram mayilae song...and that really symbolizes what many people say they miss...the sparkle in that song...the innumerable decorations to the song...and at the core of it a very simple and catchy tune.
Please listen to the first interlude of the yelae song from mayakannadi in good sound system and you will be bowled over...the rythym is excellent.
I am not sure why guys are saying IR is at a all time low...i mean his penchant for providing complex interludes and guitar usage is apparent in some of MK's songs..then why the sudden polamabal?..come on guys...IR has announced before filmi music does not interest him..the problem is we expect him to give excellent music for situations that he has scored numerous times...if any innovation has to come it must be a situation where IR has never scored before...but all the directors coming to him now give him the same old situations that we have seen loads of times...even if i was a MD i would have thought of old tunes...IR needs to go non-filmi already..after all he has done everything in film music already :D
Its quite interesting to read such passionate discussion amongst IR fans about MK. The one point that I didn't see being discussed is about the "song situation" and what Cheran wanted from IR.
Over the last 10 years (post Kadhalukku Mariyaadhai), what we've seen is IR keeping his orchestration to a bare minimum - save for a Guru or a few songs here & there. So if we were to keep comparing his 80s and early 90s songs to what he is dishing out now, we would be hugely disappointed. And we would not be doing justice to comparing apples with apples. Its just not the same, and unless and until we have sources close to Raja (who does speak to the media), we'll never know why he changed his style.
But then in the same period (post-KM), one thing that fascinates me the most is his ability to create a "theme" for every movie. e.g all songs in Mumbai Express had the same theme, songs in Virumandi etc etc. And his BGM has not faultered and on deeper analysis, I feel his songs gel with the movie a lot more than in the 80s. There are no more songs created for the sake of IR (a la Mohan & mike), and IR's music blends *with* the movie.
Lets wait for MK to release and see if this was really a bad effort from IR. And you know, what I'll bet on :-)
I agree with sudhagar. I have read in this same forum 2y years ago that Mumbai Express songs were crap!Now, people are raving about it. Because of the negative review in the forum and from the so called HCIR fans, I avoided listening to MX for a year!!
But when I listened to it after a year, I was totally blown over. What an album, to rave about!
Its the same with Pithamagan. Out came the negative reviews; "dejavu feelings", "no original effort" "rehashed tunes"!!!
I am sure these HCIR fans will be ravingabout Ilangatru veesuthe, for next ten years, from now on. I sincerely agree with the hubber that IRs music nowadays gel more with the movie than as a standalone project. Also with a theme in it!. For eg "Bharathi", ""Azhaghi" etc etc.
All your cause/effect ideologies to Raja's Music may be valid. But the whole point is why isnt there anyone to extract "The" music from Raja. If not now when??? As fans we may all be satisfied with 80's and then one more far and few. So is that all his legacy is going to be about ?
I havent heard any of Raja's recent ones.
I was only happy with "Shiva". Raja pioneered things starting with "Priya" when he was captivated with using a stero sound system. But then is he not annoyed with the kind of ouput (synth sound) in most of his recent songs.
and coming to his BGM, I had a chance to watch "Nadodi thendral" last weekend. (I haad nuthing to do ..so i thought I would catch up on this one .. since I havent seen this) ... I had literally tears in my eyes.(I was struggling to control in front of my gf) . the BGM shook me apart... Here is a guy who could afford and yet !! ...
the violins..and piano pieces ... probably they should have standalones next to IR statue in the future....
And I dont hear such BGMs too anymore.. Marupadiyum...Idayam..Idayathai Thirudathey..Mouna Ragam.. Salangai Oli ...when do we hear and feel such things anymore ?? .. I just pray and hope that he is not trying to outdo the young crop of MD's with his "technical" output and just play to his strengths....
Btw did anyone see "Babel" .. I thought the BGM was damn interesting... each country shown had the BGMS played with native instruments...
sloshed - yes BABEL had interesting BGM pieces - the mexican and the moroccon parts had a spanish guitar playing discordant notes throughout
btw, an European composer Alexandre Desplat is making waves in Hollywood - he scored for "The Queen", "The Painted Veil"
yes, the music was simple but nice. The Moroccon BGM sounded like bhoopalam!Quote:
Originally Posted by irir123
that part actually sounds a lot like "raja magal" from pillai nila..! (just the first few notes)
But check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c86RxMVzHTU
hmm... interesting!