Maestro Ilaiyaraja New Albums 2011 - Hello Jaihind / Sri Rama Rajyam

[Plum]

appa nd V_S - I meant that initial dialogue piece only. The song is ofcourse Raja's in every sense

[entertainment]

appa nd V_S - I meant that initial dialogue piece only. The song is ofcourse Raja's in every sense

Im sure even the initial dialogue is also rendered by our IR.

[Sureshs65]

Lovely review V_S. You have said most of what I wanted to say

venki: Nice description of 'kaathiruppen' song. My favourite from this album as well.

[V_S]

Thanks Suresh ji!. Yes 'Kaathiruppen Kaathiruppen' is one song which I believe everyone has been longing from Raja since long time. No styles, gimmicks, showing-off and Raja did not try to impress the listener, just as it flows naturally and directly from Raja's heart to listeners heart. It's that simple. Repeated listening is only to quench the thirst (as I said earlier) and not to understand the song. Singing wise also very open and natural and did not try to force it to keep it soft and stylish like usually we hear nowadays. We can feel the rhythm, Reeta's singing, flute all travel simultaneously, gelled together and cannot be separated. As Hulkster very aptly said, very earthy and directly takes us to the village setting. Outstanding melody and one of Raja's best ever!.

Feels like every song in this soundtrack takes us to our own village. What a musician!

[jaiganes]

I gave a first highly interrupted listen..
Did not find anything new in the songs, though, they were all equally pleasant and soothing. Sikkikuchchu and kaathiruppen remind a raja music lover of his 90s vintage. (Raaja has a vintage in every decade ). One song I was heavily reminded while listening was "vayasuppuLLa vayasuppuLLa" from a Ramarajan movie. Need to listen more - I loved the preludes to both the melodies more than the songs themselves..

[MumbaiRamki]

The links for listening the full songs are here(NOT FOR FREE DOWNLOAD!) : http://www.myspace.com/ilaiyaraajamu...iyile-17619789

The album has a very strong earthy feel and i love it

When i visit the link, i just see 'illayaraaja' page with no link to songs .. any help ?

[baroque]

minimalistic folkish pathos என் உசிரு....ஸ்ரீ.இளையராஜா with ரீடா

wonderful effort by ரீடா.

ஸ்ரீ.இளையராஜா himself would have missed ஸ்வர்ணலதா. நிச்சயமா ஸ்வர்ண வை think பண்ணிருப்பார்.
http://www.raaga.com/player4/?id=287...04885952241639
நான் மாமரத்து கீழிருந்து முன்னும் பின்னும்......என் தெம்மாங்கு பாட்ட கேட்டு... what a eternal folk .

miss you ஸ்வர்ணா.

Let me grab my சின்ன தாயீ - CD, wonderful folk compositions with Yesudas, Swarna, Bala, Uma , Sushila and Ilayaraja.

Vinatha.

[AravindMano]

Am I the only one who dislikes Reeta's (and the other female) voice? Bad choices, I think. I already dread the possibility of one of them singing a song with Sriram Parthasarathy very soon.

[KV]

AM, I too felt she wasn't the right choice. But this girl's definitely better than Bela Shinde!

V_S, nice, detailed review! Somehow this album didn’t work much for me.
Sikkichu - pleasant song. Synth work sits pretty decently and isn't jarring. The resemblance of the starting lines to Deva’s Annamalai Annamali is a bit too blaring, no?
Oram po - classic case of digital-killed-the-folk-star.
Kaathiruppen, En usuru - passable melodies. Call me biased, but a certain Shreya Ghoshal could've made these two far more interesting.
Thiruvizha songs - scores on rawness but I dont know if IR has much of a contribution here.

Overall, its the back-of-the-hand tuning & instrumentation (yeah, I do realize this is applies to works like Thiruvasagam and HTNI also), that makes this album a very middling affair for me. Back to Ponnar Shankar!

[AravindMano]

The resemblance of the starting lines to Deva’s Annamalai Annamali is a bit too blaring, no?

It also takes me to Raja's own 'pAdha golusu pAttu pAdi varum pAdi varum'.

Totally agree with you on this album.