baroque & Naaz,
I will certainly post some sample clips in a few days.
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baroque & Naaz,
I will certainly post some sample clips in a few days.
Naaz, Next time when you talk to her, please convey my love & admiration too.
Neel,
Great! Please upload when time permits.
adhuvarai.. see what I indulge!
Very attitude Vani, Outrageous Balu with good old Dashing Ilayaraja in Vaa vaa pakkam vaa....Thanga Magan. :bluejump: :redjump: :ty:
http://www.smashits.com/songs/tamil/...akkam-Vaa.html
All,
Song clips from the albums have been uploaded. Please check them out.
So many tracks to check out, Neel!:D
Orchestration is appealing.
Oru kunguma...., naan naana...., enna solla....etc.
I see my favorite combos with eagerness & love gushing in my mansu with gratitude for all those wonderful zillion compositions under KVM,MSV,Salil,LP,IR,ARR,SG... hindi ,tamil, malayam etc.. :ty: :ty: I follow up rest of them too.
Thanks for your effort, samples neatly done.
vinatha.
Neel D -
My ship came in!
There is only one word to describe this project: PHENOMENAL!
VJ - Harish Ragavendra...what a mesmerizing duo!
Vannaththamizh Maalai, Kalaiarangam Kannil Minna, Vaan Maegame,...simply superb.
More when I have had more of these tunes!:-)
Naaz,
Thanks. VJ-HR is a great duo. How about Kannoram Minnum, En Iniyavale, Munpani Pinpani, Penn Manamaa, Imaigal Moodamale, etc.
Similarly VJ and Karthik. Iravondru Undendru, and Enna Solla Enna Solla are captivating.
Balram and VJ, so unique... Thathai Nenje Enai Thangum Nenje.
Kalai Arangam Kannil (Srinivas) :swinghead:
Neththi Chutti Neliya (Krishnaraj) :musicsmile:
Pirikindrathe (Haricharan) :clap:
I think VJ clicked with all the new generation singers. :2thumbsup:
Neel D -
I don't want to hog this thread with reviews of songs from the new VJ albums. I'll post my takes on the tunes at the VJ Yahoo Group in the next few weeks...
Malarum Malaril - the pace of this song is breathtaking (and VJ never takes a breath!!), and the final impression is...whirlwind.
Pirigindrathae Oru Kaadhal - a song about separation, but the overall effect is one of acceptance without a trace of bitterness. The tune beautifully contradicts the sentiment. Nice!
Pathinettu Vayasu - This tune sums up VJ's effervescence. Hard to believe she is 60!
Catch you at the egroup soon.
A Connoisseur's Delight
http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/11/07/s...0750980300.htm
Congratulations, Neel! :)
naaz,
you are still active!
of course if it is VJ you have to be!
Thank you raagadevan!
Raagadevan -
Thanks for the link to The Hindu's review.
Neel D -
Congratulations! That's a fine review, right from the headline!
vengayam -
My posts here add up to 288. I've been posting my two bits to the Pick Of The Week thread, time and again. I've also written a few pieces for the TFMpage Magazine.
Not that it needs to be highlighted, but you're the one that went AWOL from this site.
15 posts? Such (unnecessary) restraint!
You can do better than that! :-)
Hey, they are hosting Kuppathu Raja's thinthom thinthom endru aadinaal....
Thanks. Very Happy :ty: :ty:
http://musicz.in/index.php?album=Tam...FKuppathu+raja
VANI JAYARAM's soulful aalap. She is pouring her agony.
Emotional lyrics.
Tantalizing mujra from Classical Prowess!
nice pattu break for me this Tuesday evening. :musicsmile:
Below are links to an interview of Vanijayaram, conducted by singer Unnimenon for a Malayalam channel. They speak mainly in english. You can hear her sing songs in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam etc. More than that, I was amazed at her memory power and her genius. She is even able to recall interludes, and actually sang the tune of an interlude, to Unnimenon's surprise.
Part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pDLTi2FvgQ
Part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Fjj...eature=related
PART 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDyW9...eature=related
Part4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6crm...eature=related
Part5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMmaP...eature=related
Enjoy...I love these Malayalam channels that excel in music related programs.
Two rare VJ songs (Hindi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuBkw5-eb5E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTP2uNJiCbc
Edited to add two more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOJWrdSJppQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCSNeL6TAKw
Couple of excerpts from a recent book on Vasant Desai by Vishwas Nerurkar and Biswanath Chatterjee. VJ released the book in Mumbai on December 22, 2008.
Veteran songwriter Gulzar says this about VJ in the book...
After Ashirwad I did Guddi(1971) with Dada. During its making, whenever I went to Dada's place to discuss the music, I would see a beautiful girl sitting in the corner of the room doodling in a notebook. I used to compare her with a student who is not interested in studies and wasting the teacher's time by drawing senseless pictures. I was convinced that this girl would achieve nothing in her life. But she turned out to be a surprise when she sang her first song "Bol re Papi Hara". Overnight she became a nationwide sensation. I wrote "Bole re Papi Hara" and Vani Jairam sang it. Rest is history.
Vani Jairam proved to be a very intelligent disciple of Dada. She has an incredible memory for music. She could recall not only the tune of the song but also its interlude in all its minute details including the instruments and the notes employed. During the making of Meera, I had observed how Pandit Ravi Shankarji could always trust her to recollect the phrases and intricacies of a song he had composed for the film and Vani never let the Maestro down.
Please visit this blog for additional details:
http://onepercent.sulekha.com/blog/p...excellence.htm
Vani Jairam concerts - January 2009
All music fans,
Vani Jairam will be performing in Paris, London and Zurich next week. If you live in the area please contact your local Tamil association for date, time and venue of the concerts.
Happy Pongal!
Shankara Nethralaya Award for Vani Jairam
http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/05/stor...0557190200.htm
One more rare song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXFycLYLEU
Concert Schedule Update
VJ's concert in Paris on the 11th of January was a grand success.
Pongal celebrations in London and Zurich have been cancelled and the concerts in those cities have been postponed to July.
Raj TV Lifetime Achievement Award for Vani Jairam
Vani Jairam is being honored with Lifetime Achievement Award by Raj TV on 26th January at Image Auditorium, Chennai in their Rajageetham programme presented by B.H.Abdul Hameed. The programme will be telecast live on 26th January '09 in the evening.
Congratulations Vaniamma! :clap:
VJ Interview
http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/01/stor...0150760200.htm
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Nice duet. Short and sweet.
If anyone knows a complete version please point in that direction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9wun...eature=related
Neel D -
Chanced on this thread today after a long, long time (I know!), and what a delight!
Pyaar Bhara Kajra, Zulf Leharaai Tho, Lay Chalo, Teri Jheel Si...all fine hits from the 70s.
Amazing to think that VJ was the voice for Jaya Bhaduri, Shabana Azmi, Parveen Babi, Rehana Sultan, Asha Sachdev, Tanuja, Hema Malini...and Bindu! :-)
Thanks for sharing!
Y'all,
VJ is being featured in this week's Thirumbi Paarkkiren on Jaya TV.
Monday through Friday from 10:00pm to 10:30pm. Do not miss. Please watch and share.
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Award for Vani Jairam
http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/08/07/s...0751560100.htm
Neel D -
That's wonderful news! Thanks for sharing the link.
Delhi Tamil Sangam held a concert by VJ on November 22, 2009. Here is an article by columnist Priyadarsi Dutta of The Pioneer.
The Pioneer (November 25, 2009)
Column: Second Opinion (Edit Page)
Language is inconsequential
Priyadarsi Dutta
Two hours seemed a short time as Vani Jayaram’s lilting voice enthralled the listeners at Delhi Tamil Sangam on a Sunday winter evening. I was perhaps the odd man out with my Tamil vocabulary practically restricted to Vanakkam (Namaskar). But the way her mellifluent voice moved my heart and head, I ran the risk of being mistaken as a connoisseur of Tamil. Devotion was the string of her pearls as she conjured magical numbers dedicated to Meenakshi Amman of Madurai, goddess Kamakshi of Kanchi, Lord Krishna (Govinda), Ayappa (in Malayalam), to Lord Venkateswara and Devi Chamunda of Mysore (in Kannada).
With advertisements printed in Tamil, the concert was targeted at Tamils exclusively. Yet, as I discovered, language posed no barrier since her spirit and devotion were characteristically Indian. It reminds one of Fr Xavier S Thani Nayagam, an expatriate Sri Lankan Tamil, who said during the First International Tamil Conference at Kuala Lumpur in 1966 — “If Latin is the language of law and of medicine, French the language of the diplomacy, German the language of science, and English the language of commerce, then Tamil is the language of bhakti, the devotion to the sacred and the holy.”
In fact, Tamil Nadu is the refuge of classical India whether in philosophy, architecture, dance or music. This explains why Swami Vivekananda received a roaring welcome from the Tamils in Sri Lanka and India although many of them knew only Tamil, which the Bengali monk did not know. And why Ananda Coomaraswamy, son of a Sri Lankan Tamil father and a British mother, gelled with the Tagore family in Calcutta. KS Ramaswami Sastri wrote Sir Rabindranath Tagore: His Life, Personality and Genius, published by Ganesh & Co, Madras, in 1916. The idea, as opposed to the language, of Hindu ethos is one.
The West, where public-speaking effloresced since ancient past, has excelled in transmitting ideas in contemporary idioms. India has demonstrated that ideas can be transmitted wordlessly. From India rose the art of meditation that we may realise the Truth by direct realisation. Our classical arts are not modes of entertainment but the quest for the Divine. When language chauvinism is raging in a western State of India, will somebody look beyond the spoken word, and discover that great unifying idea?
Nice video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncx46cJozIg
Thanks for the youtube Neel. really NIce one.
Dhoraguna - VJ's rendition is ecvellent.
Soulful a padi irupanga. Epo kaetalum, kandipa kannula kannir vandhudum...
KVM Isaiyum, padiyavargalum - SPB and VJ um - azha vechuduvanga....
Neel D -
Wonderful program on VJs best in Telugu! Thanks for sharing the link.
Vani Jairam Felicitated By Visakha Music Academy
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...icle805273.ece
Neel D -
After listening to the VJ songs posted in the other thread, this 80s tune came to mind (don't have other details to share):
"En Vaanil Pon Maegam Panneer Thoovuthu...En Vaazhvil Sandhosham Panneer Thoovuthu..." (lyric sothappal mannikkanum! :-))
Beautifully sung by VJ. I remember the opening aalaapanai...divine!
The memories this portal brings back -- priceless! :-)
Neel D -
Thanks to you, I am back in excavation mode! :-)
A few more VJ tunes came to mind (please fill in the details):
Thaen Sindhum Malarallavo, Vaan Neendhum Nilavallavo...
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Oorengum Unnai Thaedutho, Maegangal Antha Vaanilae...
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Alaimagal Valam Vantha Maadhavano, Ivan Malaimagal Valam Nindra Vaelavano...
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I don't know if these have been featured, but if they haven't...hint, hint! :-)
(I hope tfmlover drives by this thread too...)
Naaz,Quote:
Originally Posted by Naaz
என் வானில் பொன் மேகம் பன்னீர் தூவுது
என் வாழ்வின் சந்தோஷம் கண்ணீர் தூவுது
is from Vijayakanth starrer 'சத்தியம் நீயே’ (இசை: ஷங்கர் கணேஷ்) a very soothing solo by Vanijeyaram!
தேன் சிந்தும் மலரல்லவாQuote:
Originally Posted by Naaz
வான் நீந்தும் நிலவல்லவா
(கசப்பும் இனிப்பும் - எஸ்.பி.பாலசுப்ரமணியம் இசை: B.K.ஜவஹர்)
ஊரெங்கும் உன்னைத் தேடுதோ
மேகங்கள் அந்த வானிலே
(கை நாட்டு - ஜெயசந்திரன் & வாணி ஜெயராம் இசை: சந்திரபோஸ்)
priya32 -
Pidiyungal Oru Sabaash!! How do you remember all these details...dumb question, I know. You just do! :-)
A few more lines from the En Vaanil came to me this morning:
En Solai Engengum Pon Poo Pooththadhu
En Maalai Un Tholil Nannaal Paarththadhu...
A lovely tune from SG!
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Oorengum Unnai is also a fine tune by CB.
These following lines in the song are so romantic:
Mazhai Naalilae Kudaiyaanaval,
Nanaigindrathae, Kanngalae...
&
Mazhai Naalilae, Kudai Polavae
Nanaigindrathae, En Pennmaiyae...
Thank you for reawakening these dormant memories!
Oh you guys, stop it ( no please don't)!
You are taking me back to the 80s. Miss it so much. Will never come back :( .
Keep reminding the songs. :D :musicsmile:
Here is a nice one.
anRu muthal unakkum enakkum
uRavu uNdAnathu
VJ with SPB. Not sure about the film or MD.
Neel D -
I need to catch a whiff of the tune before I can get a song going. Often when I read the lines, I just draw a blank.
And the other way it works is when I get into some sort of lateral loop - a word or an image gets me all twisted and gnarled in songs with similar metaphors and evocations. But when the going gets really good, it's a dizzying down and across of a musical crossword. Giddy with goosebumps - what's not to like? :-)
Long puzzle short: That line is a bit of a deadbeat for now.
Priya32 mentions B.K. Jawahar. Has he done other films? Or is he one among the many MDs who were drowned out in the commercial rush and tumble of the 80s?(Thayanban, Sivaji Raja, .Srikanth...)