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New Page for Rare Hits of Ilayaraaja

Topic started by Rex (@ pppa63-gainesville6-3r510.saturn.bbn.com) on Wed Feb 10 21:38:50 EST 1999.
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I have put up a new webpage with rare hits collection of Maestro Ilayaraaja. I will try to put those songs that are either not commonly found nor available in other TFM pages. Please visit:

Some cooooool sites for songs of Ilayaraaja:

Rex-- http://www.members.tripod.com/ilayaraaja
Shibu-- http://welcome.to/ilaiyaraaja .
R.Balaji-- http://members.tripod.com/drbalaji96/
MS--http://members.xoom.com/shatjam
YASI--http://www.angelfire.com/md/Ilaiyaraja/
Ravi--http://www.swara.com
Senthil-http://www.raaga.com
Vels--http://members.xoom.com/velsree
MPR--http://members.tripod.com/Ilaiyaraaja/
G.Suresh--http://members.xoom.com/sgiridha/
Ramaswamy Gireesan -- http://www.m59.big.ac.at/~grama/

A tutorial for encoding songs into real audio - By Murali Shankar Updated on 08/25/99!

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• From: R.Balaji (@ 129.130.133.15) on: Mon Sep 6 19:37:26 EDT 1999
  
  Great moments with Ilayaraja.
  I take this opportunity to narrate some of the exhilarating moments in my life when I met Ilayaraja.
  It occurred on August 27 night 7.30 pm. There might be a question arising so as how a ordinary guy like me could meet Ilayaraja?. Well I was able to utilize my close relative's help in this.
  Probably folks interested in carnatic music might be aware of these names "vikku" Vinayagaram (plays Ghatam), Subash chandran (Mridangam) and Gurumurthi (violin). All three of them are brothers. And most of their family members are in the carnatic music field. Apart from this TV serial "Ragam Sangeetham" fame Mohan Vaidya and Ramesh Vaidya are also relatives of mine. I think mentioning of the family tree is waste of time and unrelated.
  It was a long dream in my life to meet him. When I was in madras I never had the driving force to do that as I kept postponing it. My relatives are well known to Ilayaraja and these guys have performed a lot in most of films. They also do go to his house during Navarathiri and perform in his house. I thought of meeting IR in his house but unfortunately came to know that he was going out of town so I rushed up and met him at Prasad studio. Ganjeera player Mr.Ganesh Kumar took me over there. The whole studio was so quiet. We were not questioned by the security guys.
  When I entered the recording theatre I felt sort of a divine feeling arising in myself. It was a very big hall with a big screen(nothing was on it). IR and his pianist Mr. Chandra sekar was seated in the middle with IR playing Yamaha keyboard while Chandrasekar was working on the computer. Later I saw that he was working on some proactive program similar to Goldwave but 1000 times more sophisticated. Both of them were wearing headphones. When we opened the door IR looked at us and smiled and nodded his head welcoming us. We took seats in one corner and started watching the recording process. IR was working on the re-recording of the documentary film (NFDC) "MUGAM". They had already seen the screen shot and was now adding the BGM to it. I couldn't hear the music at all. At times IR was hitting the keyboard and said to Chandrasekar "cut at 21-marupadiyum 29'lrinthu start pannuvom-" entha madri few sentences came from IR's mouth occasionally.
  Nearly 30 minutes passed by---IR took of his headphones and smiled at me. I introduced myself. I never expected him to be so simple and talk to me like that. I was looking upon a genius, innocent, simple guy. He was clad in his usual white clothes (sparkling). I started by saying how much of a fanatic I am from my seventh standard of schooling itself. I told him about my cassette and CD collections and also about my website. I told him that it is becoming increasingly difficult to get good quality cassettes of his earlier movies. He just smiled while Chandrasekar told me that I should buy original cassettes. Then I told him that I always buy the original cassettes. I suggested that something should be done to restore those old songs. Also added that some efforts has to be done to bring out the BGM's of his various films. He said that he has some idea about it and working towards it. I raised the topic of plagiarism. I told him how ashamed I (we) feel to see MD's copying from western music. No particular MD's name was referred upon. He said
  Music varavangalukkum varavechukiravangallukum vithyasam erukka thaaan seiyum. Oru paravai parapathai natural'aga thaan poda mudiyum. Paravai nama viruppathukku thagunthaar pol parakka vaikka mudiyathu.That won't look natural. Eppo varum music ellaaam natural'aga vara matengirathu.varavazhaikka padugirathu.
  Some philosophical talks were touched upon. Most of which I forgot. I thought of vidoetaping our entire meeting but unfortunately IR didn't like that idea. So I had to derive most of the information from my brain cells. "Learn but not for the sake of exams, manithanin kadaisivarai nirpathu avan kattra vazhkai paadam thaan". He said that he has been working on some project of writing "venba's" in tamil.
  Another work is on "Mugambikkai" bakthi paadalgal which I don't know when he is going to release.
  Later on I showed my website's hardcopies and told him that there were similar thousands of websites which does such good work. I particularly mentioned Rex's, Shibu's, Gopal prasad's, Ramasamy's, MPR's site and brought about the uniquness in each site. He asked how was I able to sepen so much time all these apart from education. I told him that his music is the driving force behind all these efforts and it is the responsibilty of every Indian to bring out his glory to the world.
  He specifically asked me to put this in my website-He asked me whether there are any MD who could possibly do a song in 3 notes (swarams). He said that he had done it. Later I came to know that it will atleast take 4-5 notes to do a song. Hmm…..Such a talent. What's getting on with our audience nowdays?
  I talked for some more moments touching upon his "Symphony". I told him that he must have been bugged all these years about that. Inspite of me asking the same question about symphony, he replied with a pleasant smile saying that he had lost interest in it as he had some copyright problems at that time. Now he doesn't want to pursue it further as he has better mental clarity than those times and lost interest in it. Moreover he said that if we want he can sit for a month and produce a better one than the prvious symphony. I sincerely pray to God to get this thing done. We all need to hear more music from him. At this point Chandrasekar said that his sons are trying to sort it out.
  After he left I had the chance to hear the bit of re-recording on which he was working on. Wow!!!. No words could explain that. I sincerely urge you all to see the film "Mugam" when it is released. You will be out of this world when you hear the BGM. Just few cymbals and drums. That's it. Great piece of work. Only Maestro can do it.
  I left Prasad studio feeling very much elated. I felt as if my mind was filled with serenity and rejuvenated. I had this sort of feeling when I met Kanchi Periyavar at Kanchipuram few years back.
  I thank the TFM page for providing me the opportunity to share this with the mass. I have some pictures taken during my visit with him. Please do visit my webpage at http://members.tripod.com/drbalaji96
  
  
  
• From: R.Balaji (@ 129.130.133.15) on: Mon Sep 6 19:39:46 EDT 1999
  
  Guys,
  I still don't have better access to computer.I will scan the pictures ASAP. and put it in my website.
  Thanks for the porumai.
  
  
• From: bb (@ ts001d38.cha-il.concentric.net) on: Tue Sep 7 01:48:02 EDT 1999
  
  the guys in xoom (vels, MS and suresh), did any of u face problems with putting up ur songs? did the xoom guys want to know if the songs are copyrighted? i would suggest that u all take backups as the accounts might be locked anytime if they start pricking on the copyrights issue.. this has happened recently.
  
  
• From: Suji Chandru (@ spider-th012.proxy.aol.com) on: Tue Sep 7 12:11:59 EDT 1999
  
  Hi Vijay,
  
  You are most welcome. I do have the song "Nenje Un Aasai enna" from Naan Potta Saval. I will upload the song within 2 days as you wish. I recd. all your mails. But I was out of station for this long week end. So that, I was not able to reply you soon. Please forgive me for the delay. I will send the mail about all you asked me as soon as possible. Thanx a lot for visiting my web site http://www.angelfire.com/sc/csuji
  
  - Suji.
  
  
• From: R.Balaji (@ 129.130.133.15) on: Tue Sep 7 12:19:43 EDT 1999
  
  bb,
  YOu are right.XOom has locked up my account.I have lost most of my songs.Unfortunately I didn't have any backup so far.
  Working on it to resotre it back.
  Guys--Be careful!!!!!!!
  
  
• From: MS (@ 129.252.22.112) on: Tue Sep 7 15:50:39 EDT 1999
  
  RB:
  
  Your experience must have been too good to be briefed !!
  
  bb:
  
  ayyO!! gaali! ellaam pOchchu !! My account is lost forever !! But I do have a backup of all the files, so I have not lost much...But I have lost interest to host them once again as it is a big time pain :-(
  
  
• From: RB (@ 129.130.133.15) on: Tue Sep 7 17:58:50 EDT 1999
  
  MS,
  Although we both of us are sailing in the boat,I think you are better off cos you have back up files.
  Imagine my situation.I have to re do everything.
  I don't have time and patience to do it right now.
  
  
• From: Sree (@ orchid.cs.concordia.ca) on: Tue Sep 7 18:23:37 EDT 1999
  
  MS, RB:
  I also lost all my files, actually the BGM scores which are in MPR's site are stored in xoom a/c. I tried to play them and could not. Dont know what to do.
  
  MPR:
  If you see this posting, pl do reply if you have a backup of the files which i had sent to you.
  
  
  
• From: Sree (@ orchid.cs.concordia.ca) on: Tue Sep 7 18:25:37 EDT 1999
  
  Guys:
  I think it a right time for us all to collectively host all these songs, BGM scores in a common site so that things like these does not happen.
  I have spent lot of time to encode the Housefull, Gunaa BGM clips. Dont know what i can do now. :-(((
  
  

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