Today’s loop has been just two songs, both from the movie ‘Ennai Paar En Azhagai Paar’ (What an exhibitionist of a name for a movie! Did this even get released?)

The movie has 3 songs sung by the trio of B.S.Sasirekha, P.Susheela and S.P.Shailaja (rakshashi Jaanu was probably away on a vacation for which he had to compensate with 3 voices!). Two songs are top-notch jazzy erotica numbers: ‘Ammadiyo podhum podhum’ and ‘Thottup Paar Pattup Pondra Meni’ (perla ellam enna oru kilukiluppu!). While Ammadiyo has a enjoyable dizzy/drunk swing to it, Thottu paar is a totally whacky, I’m-the-hottest-dame-around competition song, structured very unconventionally with many interesting twists and turns.
Raja completely goes berserk in the instrumentation – crazy syncopations with trumpets/flutes/saxophone, awesomely peppy acoustic drums (boy! what a delight!), kickass guitars and bass and vocal harmonies.
Reminded me of an interview with one of the trumpet players who had played with RDB and IR for a long time, who in the interview, had explained the significance and intricacies of syncopation in IR’s work. These two songs stand testament to this.

Here’s the thiraipaadal link (only so-so quality; robs a lot from the listening. The one in the audio CD is far, far better)
http://www.thiraipaadal.com/album.ph...R00155&lang=en