"music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life" -Beethoven

Friday, April 2, 2010

Ithu Oru Ponmalai Pozhudu

This next song is one of those types that will remain evergreen and that something we never get bored of listening. Such awesome melody could be composed by none other than our favorite Illayaraja. Originally sung by melody mannan SPB this scintillating song remained at the top of the charts for many months (maybe even years), and rightly so.

A very simple melody composed with amazing use of instruments which includes violin & tabla.

Whenever & wherever I hear this song I break out humming along with it and this song simply lifts the moment.

I enjoyed singing this song and I hope you enjoy listening it and reminiscing those days...

As always, listen, enjoy & please comment.



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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Noorondu Nenapu - Kannada

You could say excitement, enthusiasm etc etc. because of my new microphone but this is definitely playing catch up after a brief period of blogs drought. I don't recall having produced 2 songs in such quick succession.

Anyway, this next song is from the Kannada film Bhandana starring Vishuvardhan & Suhasini. Produced in 1984, this movie raked in $$$ for the producer. While this is of the genres pathos, this has that nice beat / rhythm and not as slow as a typical patho song. SPB sang this original score with such ease that it makes one believe this whole recording might have taken him under an hour to wrap it up. However, if you listen carefully, you'll notice that this song has some high notes and emotions to be exhibited that plays quite well on the screen.

The music director for this movie was Mr. Ranga Rao has other catchy songs as well.

Enjoy my karaoke of this nice song but try not to get emotional :-)



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Friday, March 26, 2010

Mudhal Mudhal Parthen

Well, things have been pretty busy at my end which has impacted the rate at which I am able to indulge in my passion, you know what I mean. However, between my busy work schedules I was able to buy a new microphone (which was long overdue) and I believe this will help me in better sound reproduction.

This next song is from one of my favorite movie "Priyasakhi" starring Madhavan & Sadha. A very simple story line involving love, family etc. This is one of the very few movies which I have seen in the recent years which were close to reality with minimal melodrama. This song was originally sung by a new singer (I guess) Uma Maheshwaran for a tune composed by Bharathwaj. As you might find out this is a very melodious and deliberately slow song that captures a romantic moment in the movie.

As I have said, I like this movie and all of its songs and thought you'll like this song. So, go ahead and enjoy my karaoke and let me know your thoughts.




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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Pon Ondru Kanden

This next song has been in planning for a while though executed just recently.

From the Tamil movie Padithal Matum Podhuma, this is probably one of the most quoted songs when referring to friendship (more so in a satirical way). The composers for this song were Vishwanathan & Ramamurthy for Kannadasan's lyrics, sung by TM Soundarajan & PB Srinivas.

My nephew is an aspiring singer and we were thinking of performing a duet for at least couple of years. Well, here we are with this song. While I honestly felt this could have been better, I still wanted to post it and maybe encourage him to do more.

The beauty of this recording was that we did this sitting remotely (in our respective towns) as separate tracks and eventually synced it in my software.

As always, please listen, enjoy & comment.




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Friday, February 12, 2010

Kannale Pesi Pesi...

Happy New Year! to all of you.

Since the dawn of 2010 I haven't had a chance to blog and the primary reason for that being busy work schedule; anyway, I am back with a new song to begin 2010.

This song is a golden oldy from the hilarious film Adutha Veetu Penn. Staring TR Ramachandran, Anjali Devi & Thangavelu, this amazing movie was made in Hindi as well titled Padosan. This melodious song was sung by PB Srinivas and music was composed by Adi Narayana Rao.

I was recently watching Jaya TV and the program was an interview of Mr. PB Srinivas; I was really awe struck at the range of songs he has sung most of them remain popular even till this day.

This particular one was such a great song, that it will remain evergreen and I thought it will bring back memories to folks from earlier generation and I am sure youngsters from current generation will be able to appreciate the simplicity of this song. The original score sung by PB Srinivas in his inimitable melodious voice really captivates our imagination.

As always, listen, enjoy & please comment.



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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Unai Arindal Nee Unai Arindal

As we are fast approaching the end of year 2009 given my schedule at this time of the year, I am not sure if I will have time to make another blog post before 12/31. So I decided to end 2009 postings on a philosophical note and some food for thought. Thus, I came about making this song.

While Late MGR was a great actor, I always thought his movies got that extra lift from social themes and some catchy songs. This song from the original movie Vetaikaran was sung by TM Soundarrajan for KV Mahadevan's music and as you might have guessed the lyrics was penned by Kanadasan.

Those were the days when MGR was an active Dravidian moment disciple with political ambitions and a number of his social and philosophical songs captured the hearts and imaginations of the general Tamil population more specifically the economically and socially backward ones.

Considering the new Vetaikaaran movie starring Vijay came out recently, I thought this would be an apt moment to do this golden oldy.

Let me take this opportunity to wish all my listeners "Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year"

As always, enjoy this song and please comment.




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Friday, November 27, 2009

Nejukul Peidhidum

In my profession there are 2 words that are very important, "logic" and "rationale" akin to "disease" and "cure" for doctors; having said that its only logical that after having recorded "En Iniya Pen Nilave" I had to do this song since in the movie Vaaranam Aayiram "En Iniya Pen Nilave" is sung by Surya as a prelude to this song. Anyway, I wanted to do a karaoke of this song and was looking for a pretext and/or a opportune moment. Harris Jeyraj does very few movies every year and though some of his songs sound very similar he has a great sense for melody and understands the pulse of today's youth. This is one of his catchy number gently sung by Hariharan.

The different thing about this karaoke is that there are several humming, chorus & interjections that it gave me an opportunity to understand the basics of voice mixing. My older daughter provided me support in a small way by lending her voice in one place which I thought came out well.

I hope you enjoy this karaoke and as always provide you feedback / comment.




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