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

[jaiganes]

Listening to baba pugazh maalai.
This is one devotional album that is simple, yet packed with enough instrumental nuances that underline every Raaja album.
Raaja has grasped the spiritual essence of Shirdi Sai perfectly and the result is that he has got Vaali to pen the right lines, which
glisten like dew drops in the early morning sunshine - just that the songs are not dew drops on spider web that whithers away, but
honey drops crystallized and collected in beautiful silk thread - Raja's music. His music stays much like the thread, barely visible, but
all encompassing to cause that sensation of sereneness in a Sai mandir.
All the songs are to be played everyday in the beginning of the day - to create
the spiritual humility that is very much required in preparing the mind for the "path".
I am unable to put one song below the other as all of them are equally beautiful and serene.
However "Poovaaram sootti" is in some zone !!

PS: Sharanam Bhava sharanam is a classic kalyani (though there is a shade of nalinakanthi in the end) piece that is bound to remind the listeners ARR's "Shakthi kodu" from Rajinikanth's Baba.
I devote the song to speedy recovery of Rajinikanth.