PaadasmaranaSukham in Lathaangi ragam

Recorded this song as I got lot of spare time. First of all it's ramadan and moreover, deepa and sruti left for a short vacation to attend marriage in Madurai. Lathaangi is a rare ragam used in films.

A Great Classic song composed in rare ragam (in filmworld) lathaangi. Please excuse the quality of the track I got in analog is not at all clear but still wanted to do this as this is one of my favourite songs.

In my limited knowledge, in mal film only dakshinamoorthyswami has composed in lathangi for an unreleased movie sung by (who else) ganagandharvan yesudas staring ‘swarangale sapthaswarangale’ not so popular as the film was not released.

Other than this, in Tamil Maestro ilayaraj composed a super hit song ‘chinna raasave chitterumbu…’ in lathangi. He has presented an incredibly pure Lathangi in a “tappaanguthu kind of format” in this song. It was a mega-hit song reverbrating throughout the Thamizhnadu, from the slums to the elite! Prabhu Deva (became famous thru this song) and Sukhanya danced for this song in the film ‘Walter Vetrivel’. Classic example of maestro’s intelligent use of a hardcore classical raagam and becomes wonder-struck! Ilayaraja has tuned another Lathangi in eeramaana rojavE (adhO mEga oorvalam).

Film : Sallapam
Lyrics : Kaithapram
Music : Johnson
Singer : K J Yesudas
Karoake track by: MohanKumarIyyer (as offering to great ganagandharvan who's done a marvellousjob (as usual)).

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Thiranurayum in Nattakurinji

When I heard this song for the first time itself, it was registered and became crazy on this. Recently when I checked my ipod it showed this song played more than 500 times. Our great ganagandharvan's rendered this song so beautifully that no one can do full justice to the song. The song is composed in Nattarkurinji which is rarely used.

Tried to sing to the best of my abilities, but found the magic touch given by wizard KJY is missing.

Film : AnandaBhadram (2005)
Music : M.G. Radhakrishnan
Lyrics:GireeshPuthancheri
Singer:K.J.Yesudas
Karoke sung by : MohanKumarIyyer

NakshatraDeepangal

NakshatraDeepangal | Online recorder

This song is from the 1978 film 'Nirakudam' starring Kamalahaasan and Sridevi (B/W movie directed by bhimsingh). It had music by Jayavijaya (disciples of Chembai vaidyanatha bagawatahar). The song was so popular and even today no body dares to sing this song on stage and even if they attempt the singer and the performers are seen struggling in the charanam as it is quite difficult. A great composition. It has got the Double swarams of chembai in the charanam, which yesudas has handled in his own inimitable style. It's quite difficult to sing that portion.

Interesting fact is although this song mentions chembai singing in Navarathri mandapam, he never performed in the navarathri mandapam concerts and also yesudas hasn't performed in the mandapam till date.

Blip

A nice animation by Irish students of Animation. 

Blip from Sean Mullen on Vimeo.