Song of the Day # 228
From: bb (@ 12.234.176.52) on: Fri May 23 00:47:15 EDT 2003
Song of the Day: en gaanam indru arangErum from eera vizhik kaaviyangaL.
http://www.tfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl?url=http://www.dhool.com/sotd/engaanam.rm
- Here's a classic song to get into the weekend mood. This is a song from one of IR's greatest albums. EVK had IR at his creative best, experimenting with guitar interludes, with beautiful piano pieces and what not. The song, en gaanam indru arangErum, itself, you might have heard in other songs of IR. But the orchestration, the mood, the mind-blowing prelude, all makes this song unique.
- Shankar describes the song thus:
2.En gAnam -IR,Jency antony.
The prelude has 2 acoustic guitars set to diff tunes,when the pallavi starts, one of them goes silent ,the other one follows the vocals.
The first interlude has a conversation of a piano with a group of violins.
The second stanza starts after a violin piece and it pauses suddenly.The guitars take over and now Jency starts.
This song can be easily given 9/10.
- The lyrics for this song is by IR, apparently.
- Udhaya terms eera vizhik kaaviyangaL as:
Easily the best experimental album by Ilayaraaja. Spellbinding musical vignettes-En Gaanam, Thendralilae-with Debussy-like piano pieces by IR that defy any available musical label. Wrought in my favorite IR era, back when he roamed the musical arena unleashed with reckless abandon, before religion would find and ground him, before blockbuster producers would swarm and smother his creativity.
- Kanavil midhakkum from EVK was featured in SOTD earlier.
Discussion Pages in TFMPage on this Song
http://tfmpage.com/forum/26571.20880.03.21.22.html
http://tfmpage.com/forum/29681.20880.03.21.22.html
http://tfmpage.com/forum/23524.20880.03.21.22.html
http://tfmpage.com/forum/7355.20880.03.21.22.html