Anumanaspadam Audio Review - Ilayaraja
Man it was like eternity. I was like waiting for some album of IR to come and finally it arrives even though its a telugu album. But what the heck its a IR album and music has no boundaries so i listened to it with eagerness and honey is what i received.
The good thing about IR is that he always makes sure his orchestration is original along with his compelling style of adding symphonic touches to the overall instrumentation. Even if the tune is deja vu the orchestration will never fail you and thats what is hailing in this soundtrack.
For a start i listened to Nenu Vethiki. The starting synthesised sounds looked abit modernised but watch out for the celine dion like oh my love singing coupled with a rock drum like beat towards the end of the prelude. A deviation not many would have noticed. The rhythms in the tune reek of IR's 80s style but theres a harmony with the modernised sounds which looks uncanny. Now for the masterpiece..just listen to that romantic vibrance in the veenai's playing in the second interlude. It just elevates the track to a T. Who said IR's tunes work only with the orchestra, they just sound complimented by synthesised sounds as well.
Another track which mesmerised me was Kuilalo. Yet Again the synthesised sounds come..but not as a added charm to the track but with some orchestration and that with a haunting feel. The tune is a major salvage here. You just can listen to it without getting bored and theres a hip beat to the charanam as well. The first interlude had a weird feeling but IR returns in style with the second interlude what with the violin combining with the techno sounds to give a start-stop and drag tempo. One thing i notice about IR is that he loves to contradict his songs with a totally different style of orchestration...if the tune is supposedly a breezy like melody the orchestration leads you otherwise and gives you mixed feelings but still at the end you feel intrigued despite the changes.
Ra Gumma Ra sounds like a seductive cum fear inducing number at the start. The beats at the start are vintage IR. They give the needed charm and hold themselves within the singer's daunting voice. Sonu Nigam sounds like a forest poochaandi with his style of singing and makes you feel the building fear inside you. The first interlude is what i have wished for IR for long. The guitar returns with a neither melodious nor racey feel..it goes in between with two dampening trumpeting sounds and then a tribal chorus racing the tempo bit by bit signed off by the violins ending the tempo and a sudden pause. The second interlude is like a variations of sorts. You can neither guess whether it is going for mystery nor adrenaline nor happiness. It just weaves in and out with only the instrumentation left to give you little time to enjoy. A return of sorts for IR to such songs and that with the same energy.
I last listened to Mallelo illesa. The beats mixed with the forest like sound sounded very weird but when the 80s like violin orchestration comes they just overwrite the effect. Its like a tribal intro extended onto a romantic melody. This song is a must for IR fans who just love his violin usage. It is like given a new life in this song..it returns in all formats just to show how many different styles IR can adopt with the violin. If it is supposed to hold a saddening romance at times it suddenly changes its mood to a more racey tempo and then moves into a counterpoint like pattern depicting forecoming danger. And thats only three styles explained. Another standardised melody from the man who never seems to run out of melodies.
I missed out the remake of an old tamil song prathidinam as i preferred to focus on the other original ones. But i did listen to the song and it had a sweet remix pattern with the mridhangam here and there. And you would have thought the song would only look good in its original orchestration. And there you have it, the returning album of IR and this time with good use of both his orchestration techniques and synthesised sounds...so dheemi dheemi was a starter to his newfound vibrancy in synthesised melodies. All i can say is welcome back.
The good thing about IR is that he always makes sure his orchestration is original along with his compelling style of adding symphonic touches to the overall instrumentation. Even if the tune is deja vu the orchestration will never fail you and thats what is hailing in this soundtrack.
For a start i listened to Nenu Vethiki. The starting synthesised sounds looked abit modernised but watch out for the celine dion like oh my love singing coupled with a rock drum like beat towards the end of the prelude. A deviation not many would have noticed. The rhythms in the tune reek of IR's 80s style but theres a harmony with the modernised sounds which looks uncanny. Now for the masterpiece..just listen to that romantic vibrance in the veenai's playing in the second interlude. It just elevates the track to a T. Who said IR's tunes work only with the orchestra, they just sound complimented by synthesised sounds as well.
Another track which mesmerised me was Kuilalo. Yet Again the synthesised sounds come..but not as a added charm to the track but with some orchestration and that with a haunting feel. The tune is a major salvage here. You just can listen to it without getting bored and theres a hip beat to the charanam as well. The first interlude had a weird feeling but IR returns in style with the second interlude what with the violin combining with the techno sounds to give a start-stop and drag tempo. One thing i notice about IR is that he loves to contradict his songs with a totally different style of orchestration...if the tune is supposedly a breezy like melody the orchestration leads you otherwise and gives you mixed feelings but still at the end you feel intrigued despite the changes.
Ra Gumma Ra sounds like a seductive cum fear inducing number at the start. The beats at the start are vintage IR. They give the needed charm and hold themselves within the singer's daunting voice. Sonu Nigam sounds like a forest poochaandi with his style of singing and makes you feel the building fear inside you. The first interlude is what i have wished for IR for long. The guitar returns with a neither melodious nor racey feel..it goes in between with two dampening trumpeting sounds and then a tribal chorus racing the tempo bit by bit signed off by the violins ending the tempo and a sudden pause. The second interlude is like a variations of sorts. You can neither guess whether it is going for mystery nor adrenaline nor happiness. It just weaves in and out with only the instrumentation left to give you little time to enjoy. A return of sorts for IR to such songs and that with the same energy.
I last listened to Mallelo illesa. The beats mixed with the forest like sound sounded very weird but when the 80s like violin orchestration comes they just overwrite the effect. Its like a tribal intro extended onto a romantic melody. This song is a must for IR fans who just love his violin usage. It is like given a new life in this song..it returns in all formats just to show how many different styles IR can adopt with the violin. If it is supposed to hold a saddening romance at times it suddenly changes its mood to a more racey tempo and then moves into a counterpoint like pattern depicting forecoming danger. And thats only three styles explained. Another standardised melody from the man who never seems to run out of melodies.
I missed out the remake of an old tamil song prathidinam as i preferred to focus on the other original ones. But i did listen to the song and it had a sweet remix pattern with the mridhangam here and there. And you would have thought the song would only look good in its original orchestration. And there you have it, the returning album of IR and this time with good use of both his orchestration techniques and synthesised sounds...so dheemi dheemi was a starter to his newfound vibrancy in synthesised melodies. All i can say is welcome back.
posted by Chandrasehar at 8:36 PM
1 Comments:
Dear Friend,
Your review is truly interesting, fact-based, and above all, unbiased! Keep writing for all His albums! Log on to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilaiyaraaja to find more people who share your views!
Yours Always Musically,
Vijay.
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