{"id":336,"date":"2010-09-01T10:04:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T15:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melodiouslife.wordpress.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2010-09-01T10:04:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T15:04:14","slug":"madraspatnampure-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Madraspatnam:Pure Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a little rare nowadays to find a music album where almost all the songs are pretty good and its rarer to listen to an album where almost all the songs are melody-based. Madraspatnam is an album which would surely fit into that category. It is definitely one of the best albums to come out in recent times and it is like a whiff of fresh air in Tamil music. The best thing about it is that it has all kinds of songs: A soft number, an inspirational number, a classical-based one, folk numbers etc. G.V.Prakash has demonstrated in the past that music is in his blood and here he further vindicates this fact strongly. GVP is also lucky to get a period-movie like this where he gets to compose all kinds of tunes and he has made the best use of it, credit also to director Vijay for giving scope for good music. Madraspatnam has 5 songs and 2 instrumental pieces and my favourite songs are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pookal Pookum Tharunam<\/strong>: A wonderful classical song based in Darbaari raaga, well-sung by Roopkumar Rathod &amp; Harini. The english portion in the middle (sung by Andrea) is also well done as it does not sound out-of-place. This song is very melodious and has very soothing interludes notably the santoor pieces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kaatrile<\/strong>: A fantastic song performed with LIVE MUSIC and superbly sung with energy by Hariharan. The charanams also have a nice tinge of melody in them and GVP has used so many instruments: trumpets\/trombones\/french horn\/strings section. Kudos to him as such songs have become quite extinct now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aaruyire<\/strong>: A very slow pathos-like song in Charukesi raaga sung by Sonu Nigam and Saindhavi. It starts lazily making us dismiss it as another boring number but slowly turns out to be a beautiful composition, especially in the part where the singers go high. Sonu Nigam is a very good choice for this song.<\/li>\n<li>There are 2 other folk numbers which are good to listen and they will sound better when seen on-screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GVP gets everything right in this movie and the choice of singers is spot-on. The tunes too are very good and they stand on their own even without the orchestration,thats the real test of a good album.<\/p>\n<p>As a music-lover, I wish he gets to do more movies like this which gives scope to show his talent as his strength is melody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a little rare nowadays to find a music album where almost all the songs are pretty good and its rarer to listen to an album where almost all the songs are melody-based. Madraspatnam is an album which would surely fit into that category. 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