IR News and Other Titbits Ver.2009

[jaiganes]

ellaam vidhippadi dhaan nadakkum.

விதி is shining bright.
Thamizh Thaai Vaazhththu... is in safe hands of A.R.Rahman.
He understands his responsibility, it goes down in history.
Now, let me grab Loving RAHMAN'S TRIBUTE TO THE NATION - soul stirring musicals... hit the freeway for swim class.
Vinatha.

saringkka. neeenga idhai appadiye poi ARR threadla podungo...

[baroque]

nice you agreed .

Definitely...
while some of us look forward to the music video with enthusiasm/mixed emotions let this thread get back to ilayaraaja.

vinatha.

[njv]

Even if he has lots of money, he can always try to get/wait/look for producers like any other professional. Working with high profile artists is an added advantage, they may bring producers to the table too. It makes the job easier.

This is where IR is stuck. If IR want to leave a name behind him for years to come (like Thiruvalluvar, Bharathiyar, Raja Raja Chozan, Kattabomman etc), he shd let start writing down his composition, specially when it "flows thru".

May be he is.

[baroque]

He is already in the history of Indian Cinema music.

may be

May be he writes and saves the scores .

If he has some unknown compositions with him already (not used in films/private album, bgms etc..), he releases them, it will be AWESOME too. (Producing with his money, others money, leave it with him. நம்ப அதெல்லாம் சொல்லக்கூடாது )

Remember Late Madhan mohan's Tere Bagair (15 unrelased songs)-Yash Raj films.


vinatha.

[Plum]

Vinath, madan mohan's son heads hmv's content group. That's how mm, notwithstanding his huge talent, got leverage. Indha ulagathula talent is one of several factors dhan. Unless yateeshwar grows into a music distribution moghul, I don't see that happening
Vidunga

[baroque]

Hope for the best!

[rajasaranam]

One more Interesting Ad of 'Thaandavakone' . No News on Audio

[raja_fan]

Evolution theory in Thiruvasagam

[Shankar]

baroque,

Firstly, Balamurali sharing same platform with rapper Suresh Peters was unthinkable.

The song as such, in Shankarabharanam, has so much western classical touch to it, probably in the tune or in the treatment given in this clip. Shankarabharanam exists in WCM as Harmonic Diatonic scale -- C Major (according to a page in internet)

When the flute plays, we can hear a harmony behind the flute, probably chorus and i was following that tune. the melody, though in shankarabharanam, sounded WCM to be, when it got into background, a layer of harmony.

And the way Balamurali finishes it,i could feel that he was singing some symphony piece for us, as if to demonstrate.

Overall, dont you think there was some difference in the presentation of this Shankarabharanam and other more traditionally sounding shankarabharanams. And that, with rap thrown in

Raagas,
Any major scale (which goes like tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone) probably can be classified as shankarabaraNam I guess...It's not just C major. Does shankarabaranam follow :sa, re, ga#, ma, pa, dhA#, ni#) ??

[Plum]

1. Raja scored for many GKV songs when he was the latter's assistant. This was a contentious issue in tfmpage a few years back
2. Another occasion where a famous female singer once went out of shruti and blamed Raja who was playing the guitar instead. Apparently, Raja stood up and played it again, and asked her to point out where he had gone wrong, with the MD eventually pleading with him to accept the singer's accusation just for the sake of getting ther ecording going to which IR is said to have replied "I didnt make any mistake, sir why should I accept? If you want, I will stop playing and leave".
3. When returning from katcheris, if he gets 10 rs, he used to buy bun and tea for 2 rs and buy scoresheets and music books for the rest 8!