Baba Sehgal and the slow, rhythmic arrangements of Mr. Perfect are enticing, but both get boring very soon. Uppenantha has KK trying his best to salvage a predictable-at-every-turn tune, while...
Continue reading...Top recent listens (October 2009)
Sainya Ve & Milke yun laga: Jail (Hindi OST), Toshi-Sharib Toshi-Sharib’s standard, formulaic tunes continue to impress and save Madhur’s latest film’s soundtrack. Sainya ve, despite that jaded sufi sound...
Continue reading...Music review: Siddhu +2 1st attempt (Tamil – Dharan)
Beyond the cool and impressive soundscape, Money money is predominantly drab while Bhagyaraj’s own raunchy mess of a song, Naan aalaana thaamara gets a pointlessly bizarre remix. Yuvan’s surprise vocals,...
Continue reading...Music review: Aao Wish Karein (Hindi – Ankur Tewari, Mikey McCleary & Xulfi)
Ankur’s own Let’s Enjoy track by Mohit Chauhan, Sabse peeche, makes a lovely comeback with Kunal Ganjawala’s vocals – light, breezy and hummable number. Much like Ankur’s collaboration with Mikey...
Continue reading...Music review: Appavi (Tamil – Joshua Sridhar)
Vaada vinmele is just the kind of brisk, rabble-rousing intro song any young Tamil hero would want – catchy to the hilt, particularly that ‘Netru enbadhoru’ phrase. The composer promptly...
Continue reading...The four constituents in music
I was watching the Maniratnam produced Tamil film, Dasaradhan, yesterday. It had music by violin maestro L Vaidyanathan, who has composed music for a few earlier films like Ezhavadhu Manidhan...
Continue reading...Music review: Mathiya Chennai (Tamil – Ilayaraja)
If any other composer did so many insignificant, commercially unsuccessful films in any language, his career would have died a natural death, by now. But Raja, prods on, thanks to...
Continue reading...Music awareness
I still remember this instance vividly. It was during the times of ‘The World This Week’. The program, on Doordarshan, used to be my window to international news, with the...
Continue reading...What’s your Rahman Realization Point?
The 2 composers about whom I’ve gushed generously in this blog are Ilayaraja and A R Rahman. I still find my life’s choicest moments unfolding within my brain whenever I...
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