Category Archives: Music

Blue, Passage, Sanjay’s concert

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What more can I ask for? I am finally listening to the ‘Blue’ songs now. The songs are all excellent!! 🙂 I will try to write an elaborate post on it later. For now, I am happy getting lost in the magic of Rahman’s music. I listened to the tracks from ‘Passage’ yesterday and liked those too. I went for a Sanjay’s concert in the evening. Nattakurunji alapana & Begada were the highlights of this concert. I managed to read a book too today – Sudha Murty’s ‘How I Taught My Grandmother to Read & Other Stories’. Today has been a very satisfying day! 🙂

P.S.: There seems to be some problem with my blog. 🙁 Your comments will have to wait till it gets resolved. 🙁

:-)

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I look out of the window and see the leaves of the coconut, palm and other trees swaying gently to, what I suppose is, a light breeze. Seeing the sky covered with clouds makes me wish I could go out of this air-conditioned room and enjoy the pleasant weather. Listening to the very beautiful instrumental version of pudhu veLLai mazhai, I suprisingly feel like humming yeh haseen vaadiyaan, yeh khula aasmaan, and not my favourite pudhu veLLai mazhai! I see a lone bird happily flying from one tree to another. It’s a beautiful morning! The song has changed and I am now all set to get mesmerized by the brilliant Brindavana Saranga of TNS and MSG!

ARR Unplugged

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Inspite of knowing that ARR’s unplugged concert was going to be telecast on DD last Sunday, I totally forgot about it and realized that I had forgotten to watch it only when I saw the messages in the group the next day! 🙁 I finally found the time to watch the videos today and I just loved it! 🙂 There should be more performances like this!

I switched on the computer planning to just check my mail and maybe read a few blogposts and then go to sleep early. But the result of watching the videos was that all I wanted to do was to just listen to his songs.

Dheemi Dheemi, Rang De Basanti, July Madham, If You Wanna Come Along, Puttham Pudhu Bhoomi, Spirit of Unity concert theme, Hey Goodbye Nanba, Andha Arabic, Aayo Re Sakhi, Veerapandi Kottayile, Like an Eagle, Chayya Chayya, Latika’s Theme, Muppadhu Nimidam, Mayya Mayya, Barso Re and the list goes on! I want to listen to all this and more right now, even while I am busy copying song after song of ARR to my mp3 player!

P.S: Writing this post has made me reminisce about how this blog was a couple of years back – when almost every alternate post of mine was on ARR’s music and the frequency of posts in this blog itself was much better than what it is now!

Dwijavanti & Delhi 6

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I have been hooked big time to TNS’ Dwijavanti RTP and Delhi 6 (the title song) for the past one week. 2 completely contrasting songs! Can’t stop humming ‘ye dilli hai mere yaar’. Won’t Delhi 6 be the perfect song to listen to when you are going for a drive on a highway? The magic of TNS’ Dwijavanti continues! Absolute beauty, isn’t it? It just makes you lose yourself in the blissful music! 40 min seem to pass by in a jiffy! 😉

Musical drought continues!

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Believe it or not, it has been more than 6 months since I last went for a concert of Sanjay!!! 🙁 His concert at Anjaneyar temple, Alamelumangapuram on January 22nd was the last one I went to. I was not able to go for the next 4 concerts of his, the last of which was on March 29th. After that, there has been no concert of his in Madras!

In this gap, I would have gone for about 15 concerts or so, including a few of TMK too. (There are not many concerts of TMK either 🙁 ) But a few of those concerts though were great, were not as satisfying to me as Sanjay’s concerts are. Everyday I check ‘The Hindu’ first thing in the morning hoping to see some Sanjay’s concert listed there, only to be met with disappointment. I can’t wait for the days when there’s at least one concert of Sanjay and TMK every week, to come soon. The wait has become too long already!

Nice song!

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Click here to watch the song.

This Malayalam song, picha vecha naal is the one that I have been listening to, for the past 3 days. I have been hooked to a new song after a long time! Though this song, which seems to be based on many raagas, reminds one of so many other songs, yet there is something haunting about it. Soft, soothing & melodious! Shankar Mahadevan’s singing is the biggest plus of it. My most favourite part in the entire song is the humming at 2:38. The female singer, whoever she is, does just the humming in the entire song, yet her humming followed by that haunting dhirana dhirana & the swarams NDPM RMRP NDSNDMP sung by Shankar Mahadevan turns out to be the best part of the song!
The visual is full of vibrant colours and that’s what makes it good too.

P.S.: Thanks to Sreekrishnan for the link!

FAQs by non-kutcheri-goers/non-Carnatic-listeners

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Recently, as someone typed a surprised smiley when I told him that a majority of the concerts here are ‘All are welcome’ ones, I remembered the numerous instances when my same reply was met with the same response from so many people and how Carnatic music still remains unfamiliar to many people. I also remembered the questions that Puranjoy had asked in this comment, to which I have still not replied.
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Music

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It gives me joy and bliss. It cheers me up when I am sad. It can make my face light up with a smile even when my eyes are filled with tears. It’s the one I turn to when I want to be alone with my thoughts. It’s the one I seek solace in if things are not going great. It’s the one with which I celebrate every little happy moments of my life. It’s my best companion at all times. It is THE best thing to have happened to me. Music, what’s life without you? The magic created by the varied permutations and combinations of the seven notes is just amazing! Wishing all you music lovers out there a very happy world music day! 🙂