Maestro ilaiyaraaja news & titbits

[baroque]

Indeed, Raja's music is all about feelings!

my life is IMPOSSIBLE without his music!Raja!

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something or other, Rajakku thondharavu!

if it is true,
hey! Ram Gopal Verma's 'Department' team respect the maestro!
sorry Raja!

guitarum, trumpetum energy parakkudhulla!

flute and shenai melody in the first interlude aesthetic heart of Raja....

aasai nooru vagai....
relish the enthu of Ilayaraja - THE GREATEST!

[San_K]

sumAl nitpick :
'annakkiLi onnaththEdudhE' eppudi 80's pAttu?

appo priyanka paattu maattum 80's pattaa? pesama raja issai-nu title vachurukkalam. May be separate topic

[app_engine]

Karthik Raja also goes to Malaysia for composing

kosuRu :
Singers for the KR album - IR one song, YSR one song, Venkat Prabhu (& brother) one song

kudumba album!

[Shank]

So my friend...her name is Aruna Mahesh, said she had a great time at the program. She is very passionate about music, especially 80s music....so naturally, is a huge IR fan. She also said she got a token award at the end of the program for her contribution to the discussion. She said thankfully it wasn't a debate like usual since everyone there was convinced about the impact of 80s music (Raja) and they just shared their feelings.

I didn't know that she was a regular in the program. I have to rib her about that. I dont get to watch NN that often, just saw the promo and was surprised to see her on it. Her whole family is full of music stalwarts, though I don't recall her performing in college or so. But she does know her music.

[irir123]

Good news to all fans who were awaiting NEPV audio: Here is the email: I am meeting sony music on wednesday.. I will keep you guys posted

Hi Kamesh,

We have finally signed the audio rights of NEPV, will announce the release date asap.

Regarding promotions can we meet this Wednesday @ either my place or where ever u r comfortable.

Hi - can pls check your PM ?

[irir123]

does IR have a special soft corner for cinematographer-turned-directors ? Balu Mahendra, Ashok Kumar etc have gotten some astounding, eclectic tracks for their respective films!

or is it that cinematographers do a better job at describing a given situation (aesthetics. artistic viewpoints) and IR understands them much better and gets his imagination/creativity stoked ?

I cant get over ABHINANDANA - directed by Ashok Kumar (1987-88 - what a year for Tamil, telugu and kannada music lovers! spectacular song after song!)- 'prema ledhani', 'yedhuta neevey', 'prema entha maduram', 'adhey neevu' are monster tracks! the first two especially are the musical equivalents of 'crystal meth' - i heard them once and its lifelong addiction!


- (only wish Ashok Kumar had done some more justice to the picturisation - in that regard, i wud say Balu mahendra, Mahendran, Mani Ratnam and of course Kamal have done justice to IR's music) - is there anything normal with this track ?! the prelude, the bassline, the percussionless pallavi, the unconventional percussion for the charanam and the strings section that give so much soul to the song!

i tried to get 'rid' of these from my head by listening to some Pink Floyd, Sting, Steve Miller, Boston and Kansas last two days - and last night, listened to good old Moonlight sonata (beethoven) and canon (pachelbel) - but these two tracks keep coming back and haunting me no end!!

[irir123]

forewarning: try not to watch the video above - just listen to the song!

this one is picturised much better :

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Heavy Digress,(btw ithai twitterla post pannina hubber yaaru? could not get the handle, but i could recall its someone from hub!)

http://www.firstpost.com/economy/pos...ja-378448.html

[Bala (Karthik)]

-conpees-

[KV]

Some excerpts from that article (nandri sahala):

"As I sit down to write this, it is a rather cloudy, dull and insipid morning in Mumbai. An old Tamil number, Vaa Vennila, composed by music maestro Ilaiyaraaja and sung by SP Balasubrahmanyam and S Janaki, is playing in the background. I happened to discover this song a few days back, quite by chance, and it has been playing non-stop on my laptop since then. It’s the most melodious composition that I have heard in a long-long time."

"A lot of things need to come together to create a melodious song and to have an individual born and brought up in erstwhile Bihar, of Kashmiri Pandit parents, who does not speak a word of Tamil (and not much Kashmiri either), humming it nearly 26 years after it was first released."

Discounting the MSV factor in this song and keeping aside the intent and content of the article, just for the reference and 'adhai urakka solvOm ulagukku' range of utilization in the writeup - . nee yevanO, yaar peththa pillayO, nalla iru pa thambi!