I have been listening to a lot of tamil songs recently especially for the sake of my other blog. I have been posting most of Ilayaraja's songs there and found that he has used violin, guitar and other percussions more in interludes. Rahman has been using them too but he created his own distinct style in composing music using other instruments as well. For instance, im sure most of the people came to know about saxaphone more cos of the movie duet. Also he has used swaras in most of the songs even in BGMs no matter whether the songs sounds little carnatic or not. This has not been attempted by others that frequently. Ofcourse swaras form the basis of music yet most of the MD's interpret them using instruments. Let me enlist few of those songs with swaras.
- Nila kaigiradhu (Indhira) : This is a very beautiful song sung by Harini and these swaras add even more beauty to the song and sounds more divine. Listen it here:
- Jeans : The theme music as well as the kannodu kaanbadhellam song comes with swaras. But it sounds too professional.
- Fana (Ayutha ezuthu) : A very famous song from this movie which is shot in a discotheque. There is this pre-conceived notion that swaras are usually included carnatic based songs. This is a very peppy number and the swaras beautifully flow through.
- Bombay BGM : I just cant stop listening to this very beautiful BGM from Bombay. This BGM comes whenever Aravind Swamy sees Manisha koirala before their marriage.
- Tere Bina (Guru) : A lovely song from the movie guru, more of qawali type with awesome swaras in interludes
And the list goes on...
Labels: Movies, Music, My Favourites
21 Comments:
Nice musical post from you :)
//Also he has used swaras in most of the songs even in BGMs no matter whether the songs sounds little carnatic or not//
The raagas on which some of the pieces that you have mentioned are based on:
Nila Kaigirathu - Some Kalyani (Not sure)
Kannodu kanbadhellaam - Abheri
Fanaa - Suddha Dhanyasi
Wanted to add, almost all the times the swaras will be based on a raaga only in Rahman's songs. However, I am not sure about whether the swaras are part of that raaga or not (meaning Aarohanam, Avarohanam, etc., etc.)....
nice collection... esp. that pice from Bombay.. hearing it for the first time :-D
Wow! Nice observation... I like each of these interludes... especially the Fanaa one...
Nice songs these, though am not dat knowledgeable about the nuances of music, like raagas and swaras.
And tx for ur suggestion I have added PKMC to my playlist and am enjoying the songs....
mm. you mooted my thought ..
well first nila kaigirathu is hameer kalyani..
Kannodo kanbadhellam is the inspiration of yester year Konjum Konjum salangi Singaravelanay deva ( Most Most Most famous nadhaswaram / vocal combination ). S.Janaki mam proliferate the modulation to the core.
i donna about rest..
comming to IR usage its his legendray transation, learning to hunger, trend setting, or what ever u can pick up..
if u read his books closely like Pal nila padhai or what ever then u may feel his work behind the magum opus history he created.
why such patterns comes?
where is the transalation?
How many come backs he did ?
etc etc..
its very very interesting.
mm.. comming to comment 4 the actual post.
in connect to the light music ( melisai ) i may say its a usuage or pattern. every body used in depends on the stituation, requirement, drive by directors.
well observed.
A.R.R uses more frequently and nicely packaged also.
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sorry to spam.. just a last comment..
most of the songs A.R.R used swaras as its a stituational one..
Nila kaigirathu - a girl is singing a song to relax his dad accompanying with his mama paiyan.. so he picked simple but more beautiful soothey kalyani family for that.
kannodu kanbadhellam - as picturized its bharathanatiyam composition..
Fanaaa - is kind of hichoo based song approach. (
but this is not an axiom..
he effectively used it different stituation as well.
nice post B...... IR is known for his usage of Violin interludes.... ARR uses more of flute in his music.....
wat I like abt ARR's music is the way these swaras gel into the song so well!!
Fanaa is my fav of this list!! I also like his other songs where he uses lotsa humming rather than Swaras..... for example, 'hey goodbye nanbaa', 'chinna chinna aasai', 'new york nagaram'......
Aparna -> thank u!!yupp i know abt the raagas but mit sound weird to others thts y..:P
KSR -> yupp i love tht too!!
kk -> wow cool!! i listen to it
almost daily!!
Anand -> u r welcome!! so u liked PKMC??
Adiya -> u sound more like IR fanatic!!
kutti -> hmm yupp right the humming part is other style of his..
ha ha . i listen to music. no proper knowledge behing carnatic or anything and no bias before art.
any thing which gets into my head, which i can digest. rest i may do r&d why its not getting into my head.
i just told my insight about for ur post.. infact i carefully placed some words not to be anti A.R.R or ur post. and my notion is also not that. throwing info to the forum is to get good feedback :)
office streaming ellam konjam block panni erukainga.. adhu thaan song contest illa vara mudiyala.
Adiya -> oh i see!! thts y u r not seen in my other blog these days!!
well anyway u dint sound anti ARR!!
okies :) ippo konjam high. work panna poren.. indha blogdiction konjam over dhaan
Loved Bombay and Tere Bina bit.
Gal...we hear it so many times...but never thought like u did :-)
Adiya -> sure go ahead!!
Harish -> yeah namba thinking is always different..:-P
Jeans and Fana swaras were my re-play pieces when I used to hear them initially, Tere Bina is now...nice collection.
Awaats -> thank u!!
Lovely selection!
Chanced upon your blogplace, and it's really pretty neat. :)
Thank you & do take care.
Wishes, minerva*
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