Mukesh’s Life e machaan machaan is heavy on street-style brass sound and effortlessly spouts life lessons that comes only after a ‘quarter’. It even merges into a brassy kuthu eventually,...
Continue reading...Kodi (Music review), Tamil – Santhosh Narayanan
The most interesting aspect of Sirukki vaasam is the retro-pop backgrounds that is almost Serge Gainsbourg’ish! The tune is less engaging, in comparison, though the mid-way Kozhayiren turn is very...
Continue reading...Adhagappattathu Magajanangalay (Music review), Tamil – D.Imman
Double OK is the weakest of the soundtrack, with a rather generic Tanglish outlook, but with an interesting rhythm-twist mid-way. Imman’s Raja’ish tendencies open up from Idhukkuthaanae aasappattain, a scintillating...
Continue reading...Pushpaka Vimana (Music review), Kannada – Charan Raj
Jilka jilka is a stunning opener – with shades of Kanada, Brindavana Saranga and Kapi raagas, the melody comes beautifully alive in Indu Nagaraj’s lively vocals. Charan’s orchestration is resonant...
Continue reading...Thoppil Joppan (Music review), Malayalam – Vidyasagar
Chil chinchilamai is delightfully vintage Vidyasagar… Raja’ish melody, layered with Vidyasagar’s own spritely orchestration. Benedict Shine delivers the Christian hymn-like Manamilla manamode with austerity, while Jithin handles Vidyasagar’s lively and...
Continue reading...Hitman – October 1, 2016
Originally published in . Kannamma – Rekka (Tamil – D.Imman) Imman has been on a prolific run as far as soundtracks go, though each of his new soundtracks have just...
Continue reading...Coke Studio Pakistan, Season 9 – Milliblog top 10
Season 9 of Coke Studio by Strings was largely a middle-of-the-road affair. I did follow it week after week, but many episodes were completely bereft of anything memorable. So, instead...
Continue reading...Hyper (Music review), Telugu – Ghibran
Anudeep and Yazin try their best singing the utterly predictable Come back, while Ghibran has a nice surprise in the anupallavi’s tune! Baby doll too has lot of catchy sounds,...
Continue reading...Rekka (Music review), Tamil – D.Imman
That Imman reserves some of his best melodies for Shreya Ghoshal is well established already. And when he hands her a mesmerizing tune that seems to be alluding to both...
Continue reading...Hitman – September 24, 2016
Originally published in The Hindu. Texas pogiren – Chennai 2 Singapore (Tamil – Ghibran) The lyrics video on YouTube for this song starts with a warning: ‘This song is not...
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