Raja's Gems - the latest one you heard...Part 3

[Sureshs65]

Listening to the awesomeness called 'Virumaandi'. How can a person who has been churning folks songs for 25 yrs come out with such wonderful mix of folk and modern!!! His creativity seems inexhaustible. Especially if you check out 'Annanmaar Kadhai' and 'Bhavani Varugira' from 'Ponnar Shankar'. I love every song of 'Virumaandi', the most fav one being 'karumaathur kaatukkulle'. This was another album when it came out I thought was just an OK album!!! The watermark those days was whether Raja's album could raise to the top 10 and best the albums of Rahman and Harris!! Stupid, I know but we are dictated by the times, aren't we. Now, I have no hesitation in declaring it as one of the best albums of the first decade of the 21st century. What imagination, what creativity, what innovation!!! Excellent tuning, wonderful orchestration and authenticity. This is a tape which once I put in my car stereo runs for atleast a dozen times before a change happens!!