ExpertDabbler

The secret to living peacefully for a 30+ year old guy in Tamil Nadu is to embrace lot of things…We should learn to appreciate the violin in ‘Dil ke Rishta’ just as much we appreciate the violin in ‘Yedho mogam’.. And even within Dila ke Rishta we should learn to appreciate ARR’s high pitch aalaap just as we love the flute interludes and Chorus in “Yedho Mogam”…

So here we go in reverse chronology order:

Acquired Taste:

Inherited Taste built into my DNA i suppose:

Totally awesomely brilliantly out of the wordly captivating!!!

Thanks to Gopi

No, not that stupid Remo character in Shankar directed comedy film.

I am talking about Remo Fernandez, a one of a kind, truly multi faceted musician from Goa.

For starters, he are some of his Remoisms I loved

When America instituted awards for music, they took the first half of the word ‘gramophone’ and called them Grammies. Bombay film music directors would have to take the second half and call them Phonies.”

” There’s nothing as beautiful as a beautiful woman unaware of her beauty.”

” God created man and woman. Humans created husband and wife. I think we all agree that God is smarter than humans.”

” Everyone loves you posthumously. As long as you stay dead.”

Every now and then, I get to listen to his title song in the hindi film ‘Daud’ by Rahman. Electrifying piece!

I feel he did not get the recognition he deserved.

Here’s another instance of his brilliance which i bet you would’ve listened to often.
http://www.search4rss.com/geetgatachal/?p=9

Do check out his site here.

That we have a built-in system in our mind that effectively overlooks good music from passable or horrendous movies is known. But we do not realize the extent until we listen to some unknown masterpieces and this whole feeling hits home powerfully.

I am listening to Kangalaal Kaidhu Sei since yesterday night and I am totally in love with that album. The percussions in ‘Anarkali’, Hariharan’s voice in ‘Azhagiya Cindrella’, and the tune per se in ‘Theekurivi’ are just mindblowing. The tragedy is most of the world might not even know that a movie of such a name had ever been released, leave alone Rahman had composed music. I knew about the movie but did not realize that songs were this good till yesterday.

I immediately searched for blogs discussing about this movie and found that only one hardcore Rahmaniac had ever mentioned about this film among a huge list of unknown masterpieces.

I have always thought it was only Ilayaraja who has wasted amazing songs for listless films during the eighties. Apparently, he is not alone.