Neethane En Ponvasantham | Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu | Assi Nabbe Poorey Sau

[San_K]

What I found funny is, the outdated/dated pugazh milliblog karthik immensely liked Ennodu Vaa Vaa whereas Singer srinivas called it is dated

[Plum]

It is a long time since I have been inclined towards appreciating songs without "emotional context". As in, stronger emotions than "Figure luvs". At some point I think, I became IR's most apt fan - in that, he moved on from "pop for the sake of pop" to "film music within context of the movie situation" but a lot of us held on to the 80s ideals of pop heaven. After a long, long time, I have been able to appreciate a pop song for its own sake. (SRR, Mayilu etc - atleast the songs I appreciated had deep emotional context)

This is why I was skeptical about me liking this album - GVM being GVM, at the best the emotions would be something not very deep(think Vaaranam Aayiram - as blah as blah can be emotional context) but the man comes in and blows all reservations off and reconnects me to "music for music's sake".

Even VTV, I liked songs only after watching the movie as the ones I liked had deeper context than I could suss from audio listening(although MannippAya seemed a tad overodne for Simbar's puppy love)

In this album, saRRu munbu is the one that seems to have context emotionally. Others are nothing out of the ordinary in terms of emotional context
Ofcourse, when we watch the movie, we might see the deeper emotional context of other songs - but seeing Jeeva and Samantha's faces, I doubt it.

(Ofcourse, from what GVM said, he had to invent a deeper situation for Sarru munbu post-facto. )

[Lobot]

Hi Guys,
I been following TFM page (raja music) for long time. Never had an interest to write on this blog other than reading some excellent analysis/reviews on raja's music.

Am just writing now to say "NEPV" album rocks!Simply phrasing its a WILD journey! My australian mates (20-40) love all the soundtracks, esp "ennodu vaa vaa" and "pendal endral".
Raja raja thaan . Lucky am alive to witness this genius music.

Thank you all for your excellent reviews and technical insight of his complex music!

Ari

[Sureshs65]

aravind,

Welcome and thanks for the feedback. I guess all of us are loving this album. I keep hearing it in my music system, computer, mp3 player, car, phone. So it has only been NEPV for the past few days. Even Raja's songs can't displace this !!!

[Sunil_M88]

We heard "Saayndhu Saayndhu" on the program aired on 15th Aug wher Isaignani gave a completely differently feel supported by his harmonium. It almost sounds like a keerthanam. It would great to hear all compositions in their scratch form, with IR humming away

[Sunil_M88]

We heard "Saayndhu Saayndhu" on the program aired on 15th Aug wher Isaignani gave a completely differently feel supported by his harmonium. It almost sounds like a keerthanam. It would great to hear all compositions in their scratch form, with IR humming away

I would really want to hear Mudhal Murai/Pengal Yendral first. Can't imagine how GVM narrated the situation to Raaja Saab in order for him to conjure up these rebelliously metal compositions.

[Sunil_M88]

I wonder why a saxophone/midi/hell, I don't know and give up instrument has been used in the first interlude of Pengal Yendral. There's hardly any rock numbers with this instrument or am I missing the point. Extraneous elements are usually the most distinctive and here it works in favour of the song. Saxophones can be manipulated to express any desired emotion. The emotion being conveyed here is sadness and this instrument exactly does that. In this song, it sounds very piercing akin to crying.

[Sunil_M88]

Dig//

It would be great if the maestro released an all out Celtic album. I'm going to start compiling a list of numbers by IR with a Celtic aura and its obvious that I need assistance as I'm a rookie here. We can start another thread if you want

[thumburu]

Objection your honor...
1. He gave a glowing review for TIME on tfmpage
2. Another very appreciative review for Bharathi
3. Wrote extensively on his blog appreciating TbI
4. Even posted on his blog about his discussion on IR/TbI with Sujatha during their meeting

So, avar eppavumE orE mAthiri thAn (means trying to maintain MSV-IR-ARR-fandom, he even wrote glowingly about vaseegarA of minnalE...must be scrutinizing NEPV, it would be interesting to see his total view of this score).

To add to these, way back dhool.com start up days, Srikanth showered his accolades for "poo poothadhu of Mumbai express and even went to the blasphemous extent of rating Raja's jazz usage in MX above Rahman's in Iruvar

[kr]

However, I do remember that in the early mid-90s I felt he had an agenda against IR - he would post negatively immediately after every IR album as if to discourage anyone else listening to the songs and would undermine other points of view. His opinions would seem to depict that he and Rehman had superior knowledge of music compared to IR. I used to be a constant contibutor during those days and remember having many head to head arguments with him