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    Thirai Gaanam — 2008

    Posted by on 8/12/09 • Categorized as Music

    திரை கான‌ம்

     birds-lad

    Let us lis­ten to some songs for a change [ ha..ha.. DVD தீந்து போச்சா :) ]. I have been col­lect­ing and lis­ten­ing to music for a long time. Right from my school days, I used to move with slightly elderly friends and hence I was attracted to the songs they lis­tened that time. I remem­ber lis­ten­ing to ‘Poond­hali­raada’ from ‘Paneer push­pan­gall’, in Ungall virup­pam. I remem­ber in UKG [ yei.. Yei.. Mis­ter.. என்ன‌ இதெல்லாம் :)‌ ], I lis­tened to this ‘May­ile May­ile’ from ‘Kadavull amaitha medai’. Slowly, I grew with All India Radio pro­gramme on on film songs — உங்க‌ள் விருப்ப‌ம், திரை கான‌ம், ஒலிச்சித்திர‌ம், ஒரு ப‌ட‌ப் பாட‌ல், சிறுவ‌ர் சோலை, தேன்கிண்ண‌ம்.[ some­times, Hindi songs used to come ‘aap kee parmaayeesh’ !].

    I spent a lot in record­ing songs [ in empty 90 mins cas­settes ] in my early days of my career. I had a box full of 90mins Maxell/Sony cas­settes. I had a friend who owned a music shop with very rare col­lec­tion. The shop was filled with LP records — I found that as a trea­sure.. Nandu [ Man­jall veyil maalayitta poove ], Mud­hal Iravu [ Man­jall nilavuku indru ], Karumbu Vil [ Meen kodi theril ], Kazhugu [ Kaad­hal ennum Kovil ] are some of the rare gems ! . I even recorded MNM songs in a 90 mins cas­sette — just for fun [ Crankx knows what is MNM :) ]. I’ll rec­ol­lect more in a sep­a­rate blog [ இது வேற‌யா ! ] .

    The only topic I am comfy and con­fi­dent talk­ing with Mysskin is Tamil film music and films [ not much on books :( ]. He intro­duced instru­men­tal music like San­toor [ Pt Shiv­ku­mar Sharma ] ‚Ramana malai, Eng­lish film sound­tracks [ Brave­heart ] to me.

    Slowly, my music gad­gets changed from Sony walk­man, CD — MAN player and now it’s a ZEN mp3 player with FM Radio. Now, I have set­tled with FM radio [ around 9 chan­nels in Chen­nai ]. The beauty of FM chan­nel is it’s unpre­dictabil­ity. Sud­denly, you hear the pre­lude of ‘Poo maalaiye’ from Pagal nilavu or the mes­meris­ing flute start in ‘Siru Tho­duthalile’ from laadam ; just like a heavy n sud­den rain. In my Ban­ga­lore life, I missed this beau­ti­ful option of hear­ing songs in radio. After I returned to Chen­nai, I’m delighted to hear songs almost all the time. The best one’s are from Vaira­muthu neram — in aaha FM.

    This blog is about the female singers of 2008. Though I am not con­vinced to restrict the songs by year or by any other cat­e­gory, I wanted to share the fre­quent songs that came in FM.

    1. Mad­hushree — Marud­hani / Sakkara katti / ARR

    In the out­look, it looks like a sim­ple song. How­ever, dur­ing the saranam, the song trav­els on its own way. [ Kaad­hali kei nagam ellaam ] along with a won­der­ful ren­der­ing of ARR. The beauty of Vaali is that he doesn’t dom­i­nate the song with his poetry skills. Mad­hushree is a gift to music fans. With­out much expla­na­tion [ rather him­sai :) ], try lis­ten­ing to this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbzBJY-kSVA

    2. Bom­bay Jayashree — Yaaro man­ad­hile / Dhaam dhoom /Harris Jayaraj

    The chem­istry of Bom­bay Jayashree in Harris’s music started way back in 2000 [ Vasee­gara in Min­nale ]. A trivia about Vasee­gara song — it’s the only Tamil song which has the word ‘Mudivili’ — infin­ity. [ காத‌லெனும் முடிவிலியில் க‌டிகார‌ நேர‌ம் கிடையாதே !!].

    The ini­tial lines are sung by Singer Krish. Her voice trav­els in a dif­fer­ent orbit, unex­plored by the reg­u­lar singers in Tamil. A real good one.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxeRnmr7DWc

    3. Swetha Mohan — Man­a­sukkull / Anjathey /Sundar C Babu

    For some peo­ple, music is in genes and a big YES for Swetha Mohan. She is the daugh­ter of singer Sujatha. Man­a­sukkul song comes in Anjathey for a short while, show­cas­ing Uthra’s unex­pressed love. Cool n beau­ti­ful song.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp0RgRoym3I

    4. Sud­haa Ragu­nathan — Anal mele pani thuli / Vaaranam 1000 / Har­ris Jayaraj.

    What a fan­ta­sic start for a song ! Sudha’s voice is fresh to tamil film music. Another com­bi­na­tion of a car­natic singer, Har­ris and the poetic poet [ அட‌டே ! ] Thama­rai. I like the lyrics of Thama­rai in par with any great lyri­cist in Tamil. She is the sole song writer in all Gau­tham menon movies — right from Vasee­gara days. The only restric­tion for me is to lis­ten this song instead of watch­ing the video [ Divya Spandana-vai kan­daa enaku allergy ].

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAiWz-q3uZE

    5. Sad­han Sargam — Mukundha Mukundha / Dasa­vatharam / Himesh

    Just for the voice of SS.

    Best duets of 2008
    1. Kan­gall Iran­daal — Belly raj/Deepa mariam — MD:James vasathan — Sub­ra­ma­nia­pu­ram
    2. Naan varaindhu vaitha — Hariharan/Madhushree — MD:Vidyasagar — Jayamkon­daan
    3. En anbe — Sad­hana Sargam/Benny dayal — MD:Harris — Satyam
    4. Ragasiya kanavu­gall — Hariharan/Madhushree — MD:Harris — Bheema
    5. Adiye kol­luthey — Benny dayal/Krish/Shruthi hasan [ Ter­rific voice !!]- MD:Harris — Varanam 1000
    6. Mund­hi­nam — Naresh Iyer/Prashanthini [ Daugther of Malaysia Vasude­van ]- MD:Harris — Vaaranam 1000
    7. Machaan machaan — IR / Belashinde — MD:YuvanShankar — Sil­am­bat­tam. Bela Shinde is also a win­ner from Sa re ga ma pro­gram along with another gen singer Shreya ghosal.
    8. Lesaa parakudhu — Karthik/Chinmayi — MD:Selvaganesh — Ven­nila Kab­badi kuzhu.

    Happy lis­ten­ing.

    –Toto.

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    2 Comments

    1. Rajan
      August 12, 2009 • 11:53 pm

      that was another trip down mem­ory lane, recall­ing the Thi­raiganam just while get­ting ready to walk to school. the first song will linger in the mind whole day and often hum­ming while walk­ing to school.The sun­day evening, one hour ‘neen­gal ket­tavai’ was an affair worth miss­ing mati­nee show!i share my dis­ap­point­ment in not being able to lis­ten to tamil FM songs here in bangalore.

      Hope­fully next time i shall bring the lap­top or an 8gb drive to copy ur col­lec­tions. i still have a bas­ket of my own selec­tion of tamil songs of 80’s and 90’s in max­ell, sony, tdk cas­settes. in fact my wife prefers lis­ten­ing to songs in our sony tape recorder even now, though the tapes are old and stick to the rollers and head frequently.krishna had recorded 3 cas­settes full of eng­lish songs, col­lec­tion by his own selec­tion. spent cons­der­able time in copy­ing from var­i­ous albums, using his dou­ble deck san­sui sys­tem. Phil collins, Bryan Adams were intro­duced by him.he is a con­noiseur of eng­lish music and used to help me in com­pre­hend­ing the words clearly.

      ur knowl­edge in tamil songs and fimol­ogy is amaz­ing. keep it up!

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    2. Toto
      August 13, 2009 • 12:46 pm

      Thanks Rajan. Krishna got a won­der­ful taste and he is good in Eng­lish music. I’ll share what I have in Eng­lish — mostly ‘Tharud­ha­lai’ songs like Shaggy :) .

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