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

[tvsankar]

IR's songs get deeper and deeper as time pass by.

S. romba azhagana vaarthai......... 2 type sollalam.

1. oorukai pottal, adhu romba nalla oorina dhan set agum.. taste romba nanraga irukum.

2. jeera vil podum sweet types... idhvum apadiaye.. nalla oorina dhan taste irukum.

adhu pola.. IR songs................................

[raajarasigan]

wine mAdhiri'nnu kooda sollalam

[KV]

Anthapuram interludesla ellaam bOdhai porul range'nga.

[Plum]

ada pAavi tamizharasA! ingEyumA?

naNbargaLE - vENAm avaru kuzhi thOndurAru. summA chilipikA chilipikA solRAruppA. Parody. valaiyila vizhAdhInga

(TA - btw, , you are doing well as a possible replacement for git. git is obviously a pastmaster so hard to match him but not a bad substitute )

[Vinodkumar]

Converted Payanangal Mudivathillai into a high quality album this past weekend. Here is a portion of "Thoga Ilamayil". Please forgive me for the song being short.... Here is the link:

http://soundcloud.com/raja4ever/payanangalmudivathillai

[KV]

Vinod, thanks for this (though I'm yet to listen to the clip). I actually have a similar request (which I wanted to post sometime back). When you find time, can you please try extracting the basslines from some tracks, say Solla Solla (from the finders keepers compilation where the sound quality seems to be pretty good) or any other song of your choice?
Also, can you please add d/l option to your soundcloud collection, if possible? Thanks in advance!

[KV]

chozhar kula (udan pirappu)
p_r solra maadhiri - iyya, naangellaam ivalo orththE illinga.

[jaiganes]

I was thinking about Raaja's evolution across the years.. It is a breathtaking journey so far and I have a feeling that we are in for some more exciting 'evolutionary jumps'. Just rewind and think through
1. Nativity statement in early years
2. Compelled to show versatility in the following years
3. Finding of spiritual balance coinciding with "controlled orchestration" and daring attempts at fusion
4. Fusion giving way to "splicing" WCM orchestras playing charukesi and saramathi while the native folk instuments try to do harmonic counterpoints and the listener is flummoxed by the whole thing.
5. New found love for Jazz in its pure form - attempt to increase "composer" value in jazz - ongoing effort to achieve control over jazz players - something like what Babe does to a flock of sheep in the movie "babe" climax - coaxing and cajoling them to play 'his' tune..
And then I listened to the nithyananda song "Muthoo mani muthu mani" from adharmam - the control over the music is impeccable - be it the change in rhythms - choice of percussion and instrumentation that makes it "oh so soft" (to go along with the picturisation), the conversation between folkish flute and Cellos in the second interlude - oh what can one say about the velvetty beauty of the entire thing - song no longer remains words set to music - but become a beautiful bird that sets the stage, puts on the colors and then sings and dances to covet - to mesmerize its mate. The word 'art' finds its true meaning in such a transformation. Thanks my dear UPS.

[Sureshs65]

Jai,

Listening almost non stop to his 90s works. I need to write in detail on that. As usual lack of time the culprit. As you say, an amazing transformation from the man.

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

In any song, mostly, I just let it play and lyrics makes absolutely no impact on me, or i don't give any attention( even if, only minimal, and that too only after many listens, when i feel i have well absorbed the song, and let me look at other departments, and mainly, only if the lyrics is catchy (meaning/words) )

the lyrics are just carrier of the tune. only look at way of singing, beauty and effort in way of singing, and just let the overall sound/tune do the magic on me. singers are just another musical instrument. There are too many other things to look for, the bass guitar and other instruments, the musical conversation between them, most of the time, its felt that the tune itself is 'talking', 'conversing' some meaning and the sub-conscious mind deciphers it and comes up with conclusion that this 'tune' itself is speaking/expressing the situation. I run out of words, to explain this blissful feeling , hereafter.

Each song is like, we get caught into the frequency of that song, like phase locked loop, its tune locked mind and just can't come out of it, the mind demands looping that song, and even the song heard before is allergic, until i come out of that current song. godly feeling.