{"id":94,"date":"2009-01-19T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melodiouslife.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/19\/shubhaniyogamalle-flashes-of-brilliance-from-ilaiyaraja-2\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T04:36:00","slug":"shubhaniyogamalle-flashes-of-brilliance-from-ilaiyaraja-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Shubhaniyogamalle: Flashes of brilliance from Ilaiyaraja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Ilaiyaraja fans feel that he is not the same composer who used to churn out hit after hit, when he was at his peak. I agree with this point, but I would also like to say that he has achieved so much that he need not do anything now to prove himself. Nowadays a song that elicits a &#8220;wow&#8221; is quite hard to come by from Ilaiyaraja but sometimes he does display his genius thro&#8217; individual songs. One such song that made me say a big &#8220;WOW!!!&#8221; is a Malayalam song from a nondescript movie called SMS. If I am right this song is set in Keeravani raaga. It is supposed to be a devotional song but Ilaiyaraja does not make it sound too simple.  It has a very melodious, addictive tune with splendid variations (which we have got used to from the maestro). The orchestration is very simple with strings &amp; wonderful flute pieces creating a very soothing effect.  Don&#8217;t miss this song! Listen to it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hummaa.com\/music\/album\/29629\/Sms\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Ilaiyaraja fans feel that he is not the same composer who used to churn out hit after hit, when he was at his peak. I agree with this point, but I would also like to say that he has achieved so much that he need not do anything now to prove himself. Nowadays a&hellip;<span class=\"excerpt-more-link\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/?p=94\">More <svg class=\"svg-icon\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\" focusable=\"false\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M6.96954 10.2804L11.9999 15.3107L17.0302 10.2804L15.9695 9.21973L11.9999 13.1894L8.0302 9.21973L6.96954 10.2804Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/><\/svg><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[111,113,114,248,255],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malayalam-music","tag-ilaiyaraja","tag-ilayaraja","tag-illayaraja","tag-shubha-niyogam","tag-sms","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}