Originally Posted by irir123
I managed to play to 'adhi ushas' (PR) and 'edaya bagilu' to my symphony orchestra player neighbors (husband oboe player & wife flutist)
1.'adhi ushas': the entire song is structured along the lines of western/european classical music, especially the chords - the chords placement/structure is critical for giving such a feel, other things follow this - such a trick is employed by rock-pop musicians/bands to give the nice rich feel - but the song melody itself is very oriental in feel - and i was zapped when he asked me "is the song about a group walking through the woods or something like that ?" - he doesnt know a single word in malayalam! thats the magic of IR - there are some other technical explanations he gave which were way too theoretical and went over my head (a la curtley ambrose bouncer to some tailender in the 1990s!)