A recent article I wrote/ recorded is published in Solvanam. You can read it here.
Videos I made for this article are here:
I linked about 17 odd songs of Raaja in the article.. A sample of what I attempted to say is here:
Couple of my personal jazz waltz favorites which I also linked in the article is given below for your listening/ learning experience.
Coltrane the King:
Composer who dreamed of massive orchestration in films and executed them with panache..
The great Burt Bacharach:
(Don't miss his Raindrops keep falling from the same movie. It can lift you regardless of how gloomy a day you may have had)
Showman thy name is Sammy Davis Jr:
I first time I heard this song was on a local French radio while driving along coastal route with the early morning son beating down the lovely pink granite rocks of a postcard village called Perros-Guirec. A new place with arresting scenery that I am seeing for the first time resonating with the lyrics of a new song I was listening for the first time - "Golden Brown , texture like sun" .. Its a moment that will stay with me forever..
Sunday Driver of relatively unknown Limp Twins fare high in my list too..
As usual, my apologies for non-tamil friends. I made it a point to recorded the video in English so that you can appreciate this as well. I promise that you can expect the English version of the post soon..
With Love
Vicky
I just read your article in Solvanam, about Raja's Jass Walts music.Simply superb...! A great research on Isaignani's Jass Walts magic! Expecting the English version of that, so that I can circulate it to my English friends.
ReplyDelete2500 hits in 48 hours.. Didn't expect this article would have such a reach especially given that it targeted a relatively smaller Tamil readership in the net !! Thank you all.. Also thank you for the shares, comments and emails. It has been a humbling experience. A special thanks to Sethupathi Arunachalam for a tighter translation and editing without whose help the article wouldn't have reached its final shape.. And Thank you Solvanam for the opportunity.
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Some trivia on the article:
1. Tagging Sada sir for the second interlude of "Gaanam Then Kaatrodu" is a personally satisfying moment for me in the article..
2. All the audio clips used in the article are remastered by me. This took me as much time as writing the article itself. Especially the song "Ennadhaan Sugamo" is of such a bad quality that I had to compile my own version of it by picking good quality sections from various mp3s I had. I synchronized their tempo, stitched them together and enhanced the quality. If you listen to this song from the article and if you listen to the version of the song that you have, you would know the difference. (Actually you should be able to make out the difference for all the songs)
3. Many of you asked what clip is the music bit I quoted for alternating between normal waltz and Jazz waltz. That is the first interlude of the song "Poonkattinodum" from the movie "Poomukhapadiyil ninneyum kathu". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKBklmoxQi0
4. Even though, I linked the Sammy Davis Junior version of Mr. Bojangles in the article, there is a version of Robby Williams live. Watch out the prelude rhythm meter that he sings "Bhoom chak chak.. Bhoom chak chak".. http://youtu.be/iB2KRRUflgw That is Jazz waltz.
Nice to see the blog re-ignited after a long time :)Good to see the archives also working now.
ReplyDeleteHoping for lotsa posts from you. Keep em coming.
Glad to hear them again. I miss their music.
ReplyDeleteI read u everyday to know
ReplyDeleteWhat abt the song in sathriyan
ReplyDeletePootukkul potalum
We do not have to prelisten jazzwaltz to enjoy it
We know ilayaraja
Degam siragadikum from naneraja nanemanthiri
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the song golden brown
ReplyDeleteThe moment I heard it captured my heart