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

[thumburu]

I should give it to Gautham for tactfully handling Raja's ego like a glass. Raja's englipeez - may be most of the folks he deals with these days are those Budapest, London musicians and not much of our own kodambakkam vaadhya kuzhu.
This ennodu vaa strip is a big dampener and makes me feel "saindhu saindhu" a classic. I am not too fond of broken lined tunes and "konjam thira" progresses nicely from the 3rd line itself. This is more on the lines of the mediocre "mayakannadi" song "konjam konjam ...." . This "youth" album seems to "fall" in the category of what Suresh euphemistically calls as "Raja Lite". I pin my hopes deeply on the bgms, rerecording, orch

[itsmuls]

Ennodu vaa vaa song reminds me, one of the song from keladi kanmani - nee padhi naan padhi kanna...beautiful composition....

[jaiganes]

Raaja did admit openly that the camera was making him feel uncomfortable ('yaaro enna paakara maadhiryE irukku'). I don't know how much it impacted the creative process (for this definitely is a distraction), but that we got the priceless sight of a tune take birth... oru alpa sandhOsham. .
GVM... asaadhya confidence

And reg. why harmonium - though it'd be very easy to ask back 'why not', I think it's probably the tradionalist in Raaja who doesn't want to move to a different instrument. And it was lovely the way he played the chords on it while doing the beats on the left hand. Us having got the chance to listen to this subsequenly tranforming into acoustic guitars and drums kinda takes us through the 'process of creation', thus giving it that extra beauty. This probably is how the conjuring has been happening since Annakkili, churning out song after song in so many different styles and genres - all germinating from his chella harmonium petti. raasa... onniyum sollrathuku illa pa.

1. it does not need electricity - which is scarce these days
2. it eliminates one more person in the room (kinda FBI interrogation feel that Raja brings to composing session will be lost when another guy with guitar keeps checking the watch, 'anna thanni kedaikkuma' etc).
3. It also establishes the much hyped fact that Raja does music work in a vacuum with a wire tethered between him and the cosmos and the director speaking through a glass door..
4. It eliminates any doubt in anyone's minds that he is searching for tunes in iTunes when director tells him the situation or another guy standing in the recording room vaasal and saying "Idhu en tune therima?"
ippde sollte pogalaam.

[San_K]

2. And did GPM really shoot the composing session as it happened? I don't mean the professional camera but him capturing with his phone?! I think thats sort of insulting Raaja's creative process and more importantly mighty annoying. I am surprised that GPM got away with that.

+1

If anything disappointment in quality, i will mostly complain this

[SoftSword]

just watched the show...
goutham... rasigan daa... nallaa iru saami...

the alpharhythm - idhu romba deepumaa...evlo periya visayam...

the ennodu va va bit... impressed... mainly cos of the rhythm...

[AravindMano]

kEtuttutE irukkEn indha teaser ayE Just cant stop.

Nerd - He said, about the camera phone, it's for me, personal. Could understand his enthu. I guess every director would want to do that, but dhairiyam irukkAdhu.

And, ivar explain paNRa scenes lAm kEtta

[AravindMano]

Also - somebody clarify please.

He recorded all voices first

He didnt explain how the orchestration would be

And then he gave length of music for "shots" for the song - err

apRam two things -music recording at London. Gautham shooting songs. edhu eppadi enga nadakkum?

sync-E aagalayE

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

He recorded vocal portions for all songs, but that length of the song was given only for one song, not all. ( for that one song, I guess Gautam shot lots of scenes and would edit them to fit within the timeframe of the song, and the song will run in background.)

after london shootings, he may have shot the songs.

[AravindMano]

Hmmm..

[irir123]

alpha rhythm / waves !

i once heard a spiritual/scientific discourse by a renowned systems theory specialist - when a person is dreaming or in a certain state of mind, alpha waves can be measured from his/her brain - similarly the same type of waves can be measured as emanating from a person suffering brain damage, esp with old age (senility)!

the causation is different, end result is the same! thats why neuroscientists often confuse 'meaningless' ramblings of spiritually inclined ppl (experiencing higher states of consciousness levels), with brain damage and call them nuts!

havent listened to IR's interviews so many times, he for sure has experienced these altered states of consciousness levels many a times, and still is cautious enough to not let all of that interfere way too much in his day-to-day material dealings!

am saying this - despite all that IR has been perceived to have verbally 'pidhattrified' so far! could have been worse!