കണ്ണേ കലൈമാനേ ....

Its a Master Piece from the Music Maestro Ilaiyaraja and sung by KJY. I haven't had much time to concentrate on the recording and I finished the whole song in a single take. When I gave some delay effect, unfortunately the vocals lagg and I didn't have a back up of the originals. I particularly picked this song because, its one of the all time favourite of my wife :) and I had no way to skip this time. And what a meaningful lyrics......thanks to Divya for translating me the whole song and correcting the diction though I couldn't make it perfect.


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താരക രൂപിണി

Its been four weeks, since I started my audio blog. Recording has been an enjoyable and thrilling experience for me and as I do more recordings, I am getting more attracted by the art of audio engineering. You need to learn a lot of things. Nowadays you have innumerable choices for sound editing software. Sound in a crude sense, can be considered as an array of mechanical vibrations and we are limited to hear the frequencies in a range of 20 Hz to20,000 Hz. When you organize sound waves with respect to time, and give it some rhythm, pitch, mood, emotions and dynamics, you will end up in generating some sort of musical form. It’s a difficult choice, how do you want to express your musical thoughts. A karaoke singer don’t have to worry much, since a basic sound editing interface like Audacity is more than enough; but if you want to create your own music, you should have a reasonable flexibility in the audio simulator to express your thoughts. I am still using Audacity and it has a lot of useful inbuilt effects to improve your audio. But we are limited to use the predefined profiles and I guess many of the inbuilt profiles which Audacity has, doesn’t support the Indian music style. Yesterday I got Adobe Audition from one of my friend and I find it is far better than what I am using right now. I will be recording using Audition from next week onwards. Previously a conventional weekend means going out for a movie, try some restaurants, watch a Padmarajan movie with some methyl alcohol derivative etc etc. Things have changed now. I spend at least 2 hours to learn and record a song. As you know it is quite hard to create a noise free atmosphere at home. I have to say that the pleasure of recording and editing our own sound is amazing. I couldn’t make much significant improvement in technology wise since I started the blog, but at least a few hours of exercise for my vocal chords keeps it alive. I had given almost 5 years of rest to my throat and it may take few more months of regular efforts to retrieve the fitness. Being a Glaswegian, I have a very limited opportunity to sing and I feel an audio blog is the ideal medium for me to express myself. I came across this concept following a random Google search and thankful to Jo for maintaining an inspirational model blog.

This time, I attempt one of Brahmanandan's ever time hit from the movie Shasthram jayichu Manushyan thottu. Lyrics by Sreekumaran Thambi and music by Dakshinamoorthy. As I do something related to Astrophysics for living, I couldn’t fully comprehend the word “Tharaka roopini”. In many aspects, Brahmanadan resembles Venugopal. He hasn't sung many songs, or Malayalam music industry hasn’t had a genuine necessity to add an additional singer like Brahmanadan since they already have the blessed KJY & Jayachandran during those days. However all his songs were super hits.



Tharaka roopini | Music Upload

മലയാള ഭാഷ തന് മാദക ഭംഗി !!!!

We had a fantastic Onam last weekend. Even Achan was complaining me that, it was hard to find organic Plantain back in Kerala. This is my third attempt to record a song. Due to some unavoidable time constraints, at the moment I am only able to record a song per week. I want to push it a bit; at least 2 per week. I haven't sung for quite a long time and the result is a rusty throat. You can notice cracks in voice while it touches the high notes. I was comfortable with d/c# scale at a time and disappointingly struggle with c now. I am sure I will be able to move freely atlaest in c scale. I tried to sing with a karaoke track, still need to improve a lot. This time, a classic by Jayachandran.


Malayalabhashathan | Upload Music

കല്‍പ്പാന്ത കാലത്തോളം കാതരേ നീയെന്‍ മുന്നില്‍ .....

One more Onam as an economic asylum seeker. I had posted a song last week, in which the recording quality was reasonably bad. Today I post one of my favourite song by Vidyadharan master. I tried to improve a little bit, in terms of the recording quality. As Jo had suggested me last week, the only way to learn the recording techniques is by recording more songs:). DIY


kalpanthakalattolam kathare neeyen munnil cover | Upload Music

May Maasame - A classic by SreeevalsanJ Menon (Cover)

I am inspired by the audio blogs of Jo , Pradeep and Murali. It is interesting to see how professionally they maintain their blogs. This is my first attempt to record my voice. At the moment, I have a very limited resource and this trial is done with a normal mike which came as an attachment to my head phones, a normal Toshiba lap top with Intel core 2 duo processor, 4GB of RAM and controlled by Fedora and I use an elementary recording software called Audacity. I am grateful to Murali and Jo, for their tutorials on creating an Audio blog. I have a plan to get one dynamic mike and an external USB sound card with a MIDI interface so that I can plug in my keyboards as well.

Sreevalasan J menon is one among the most impressive new face in the Malayalam film music industry, we have seen in the last couple of years. He is a trained and well established carnatic vocalist. I had an opportunity to listen to one of his concert with Nayyattinkara Vasudevan, when I was a kid. All songs in ‘My mother’s laptop’ are excellent and the quality of orchestration is amazing especially as it is done by a classical musician like Sreevalsan. I attempt the song May maasame. You can feel the soothing fragrance of Abhogi through out (in the original version :)). There are some classics in Abhogi from raveendran master like ‘Maamankam pala kuri kondadi’ and ‘Aaalila manchalil neeyadumpol’ etc, but this song is exceptionally marvellous because it doesn’t remind you or restrict you to any common characteristics of the Raaga. Rafeeq Ahmed’s lyrics adds the rest of it.



May maasame at Muziboo.com