Maestro ilaiyaraaja news & titbits

[layman10]

idhukku pEru dhAn humility mafia - nAn dhAn sonnEnE....ivangaLA oru standards vechuruppAnga, adhai apdiyE pESaNum, apdiyE nadakkaNum - illainA medical prescription mAdhiri ezhudhi tharuvaainga:

Unwrtten rules: Actor an choose MDs, heroine, Dir etc, throw them at will, later gives nose-ring for a MD, so caring!. If a MD gives a damn about buildup song for an actor irrelevant to story- he is arrogant.

In people's mind they have an entitlement for every one, like a Zamindar even when he is penniless is expected to have great respect (vazhnthu kettavan). A Servant even if rises to the top, he should have (their brand of ) humility and loyalty. VK can talk any rubbish, because he is Hero, Comedian Vadivel is expected to be in certain way because he is after all a comedian.

[KV]

@syrup baliAdurahmanmodel

nandri plum. vaazhkaila alatchiyamaa irukkara naa, latchathula oruththana? pOnga baas, neenga eppavume ippidi dhaan.

[KV]

layman, innikki ungala round kattradha irukkEn.
i've asked you this before, but to no avail. How/where do you come across these strange compilation albums of Raaja? Who does these records? who gives them such funky posters/covers? Who sends them to review sites/magazines? oru underground network maadhiri irukke! konjam vivaram sollungalEn...

[wizzy]

KV, I have a heard a lot about his classical music prowess. best of musicians are known to be nervy infront of him so lets see how he goes in other cities..

no one will Gnani seriously if they were to attend his medai nadagams..unintentionally funny

[layman10]

layman, innikki ungala round kattradha irukkEn.
i've asked you this before, but to no avail. How/where do you come across these strange compilation albums of Raaja? Who does these records? who gives them such funky posters/covers? Who sends them to review sites/magazines? oru underground network maadhiri irukke! konjam vivaram sollungalEn...

அப்படியா மன்னிக்கவும்?!. miss பண்ணிட்டேன்.
Those compilations are by some labels that catalog global retro sounds (mostly for kitsch factor I guess). I think finders keepers records got to know about Raja when Solla Solla enna perumai song went viral on youtube. Surprisingly they have a good reach, search ' FM playlist ilaiyaraaja "solla solla" ', you can see how many community FM stations played songs from that album. Similarly black eye peas used a Raja's song that came on some CD that had a Raja's song among many old Bollywood dance numbers around 2000.

Nothing much from my part, I have filters to search google, blogs, news, twitter etc for his name (with many possible spellings) which I get as feed to google reader. I post here some after weeding through loads of articles like Raja scores for Samatha's movie etc!.

[KV]

layman, ungal thondu thodarattum. seekers keepers.. mindla vechchukarEn.

[baroque]

KV, thanks for your thoughts!

yellam kalakureenga with your reviews!

yeah... Quality DVD of the program for the unlucky jantha not get to attend the concert, Bhava, good job! thanks!

[skr]

Plum , Wizzy , KV and others who attended HTNI.
Looks like Anil Srinivasan has oppified some of the concepts of WCM based on this blog.

Mad Mod Mood Fugue
When Raaja sir has made His first trip to France {on 19-09-1983 through Airfrance} to meet the great french composer and arranger - Paul Mauriat, Raaja sir had specially composed a three piece record composition.

After hearing that composition, Paul Mauriat has appreciated the outcome and also, he proclaimed that it was the first such an attempt.

Actually, it was the same piece - Mad Mod Mood Fugue {2 minutes 03 seconds}. Later this composition has paved the way for the album - "How to name it?"

Fugue is a music concept, which supposed to be originated from the contrapuntal family, however, it differs from other contrapuntal idioms by: A main melody was played and it would be responded by counter-melody at different pitch. It is need not to be a factor of overlapping same melody with regular interval.

BTW, in chorale fugue, main melody will be replicated with two successive voices and fourth voice enters against the first/main melody.

This concept differs with instrumental fugue, I reckon. In canon, the complete main melody will be replicated by follower melody; however, it does not followed in Fugue.

May be a main melody was followed by its follower melody to some extent can called as "Fuga canonica".

Normally, at pre-baroque era, fugal work is performed with voices alone. Later, it had accompainment of instrument. However, Bach's Bourree in e-minor was written for lute.

Coming back to Mad Mod Mood Fugue:

Raaja sir's Mad Mod Mood Fugue is interwoven with three melodies. One violin plays the 15th melakartha raaga Mayamalavagowla and reportedly, 2nd violin plays the counter-melody of Bach's Bourree in e-minor and a bassguitar as bassline to form Trio structure.

Trio is a composition, which is written for three voices and instruments performed by three persons. Here, only 3 instruments play their own melodies.

I personally feel that this three piece orchestra movement is alike Allegretto {a moderately quick tempo} - Allegro {a quick, lively tempo} – Allegretto. {eh?}

At their initial stage, all the three instruments play their own melody without any botheration among themselves, after the 1st minute; there is a fuss among the two violins to consider about their melodies with each other. At 1:20, array of string instruments were more alike Allegro movement {a quick, lively tempo}, wherein western violin’s call was responded by Indian classical violin with bass accompaniment for main melody. Eventually, all the 3 instruments try to sustain their original melody. Subham!

always

~Raaja rules!

http://raajarulez.blogspot.in/2009/0...ood-fugue.html
Plum and Mumbairamki : Btw this writer is a huge Karthik Raja fan

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

கார்த்திக்ராஜாவின் இசை பிடிக்குமென்றாலும், அப்படி என்ன தனிச்சிறப்பு உள்ளதென, படம் வரைந்து பாகம் குறித்து விளக்கவும். 10 மார்க்!

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Is there a website which just list **ALL** the songs of Raja, in alphabetical order?! Just a list, need not be playable