This is the first post after #365RajaQuiz concluded on July 28th, 2013. 🙂
I have never dared to separate vocals from music before. முகிலோ மேகமோ was too irresistible to not attempt it.
Normally, I focus on my favorite instrument notes of Maestro Ilaiyaraaja that I never ever needed a vocal-remover. In this case, I just wanted to verify, if my mental extirpation of strings from the vocals matched the actual. And it did. I just wanted to share that simple pleasure with you all 🙂
For a week, I am unable to get out of this song. The strings are too good, too precious. These strings are not just sublime, but, something more ethereal. It truly tugs at the heartstrings.
I won’t call my first experimental attempt to remove vocals as “great quality.” But, I just tried.
And I am writing this post to just exhort others to enjoy the beauty of this album by listening to it from various angles.
Removing vocals to highlight the strings is in no way to minimize the actual voice, which is also equally another main highlight of this song. Rather, it shows the hard-work, ingenuity, and mother lodes of sentimental yearning, this Lord of Strings has packed.
Thank you, Raaja!
What a precious gift this album is!
Maestro Ilaiyaraaja 
Just awesome! Thanks 🙂
Thanks for this Rip. I would like to listen to all the songs in Megha like this. In my opinion, Orchestration beats the Main Melody and Voices in Megha Album. Soul-Stirring Orchestration. I could sense even the melodies are designed with short phrases and short stretches of gaps between the phrases to create some audible space for the instruments laying underneath.
Raaja has used almost the same template, formulas and techniques he applied in the Orchestration of NEPV songs. A short write-up on NEPV Songs’ Orchestration I wrote at the time of its release
http://www.backgroundscore.com/2012/09/neethaane-en-ponvasantham-orchestration.html
Oh Master… such a heavy “feel”…like a thick dark cloud hanging above your head that has sucked in every droplet of water in this universe which is just about to burst…that kind of heavily condensed emotions in these chords…you can feel that heaviness in every second..in every chord progression… in each and every note…concentration of this syrup is too high that it will corrode you instantly and at will pulling you into the darkest depths ever known to you, ever so gently, in all your numbness…
thanks for this wonderful share… it really made me attentive and watchful and enjoy the nuances… would you believe i walked 20 miles non-stop in an addictive state by just listening to mughilo megamo and jeevane en jeevane in continuous loop? but i did it…
just like how we have heard that stories of ghosts that will lead youths into dark forest and suck blood…He has achieved that on me…at last making me shout like “What did you do to me”….
20 miles non-stop walk ??? :-), wow Arun!! “இன்னும் எங்களை என்ன செய்ய போகிறாய் ராசா ராசா…??!!”
அடப்பாவிகளா 🙂
Mayilu, once you get back home, Mariyaadhaikku kattupattu join our Raja Fitness gang 🙂
அருமை அண்ணே, மேகா ஆல்பத்தில் அனைத்து பாடல்களிலும் இது போன்றதொரு பின்னணி இசையை அள்ளிக்கொடுத்திருக்கிறார். இது நீதானே என் பொன்வசந்தம் பாடல்களின் அனுபவத்தையும் தன்னகத்தே கொண்டு இன்னும் அழகாகவும் மெருகு கூடியும் அமைந்துள்ளது,
அனைத்து பாடல்களும அருமை என்றாலும் குறிப்பாக முகிலோ வில் எப்படி இசைக்கருவிகளிடம் காதல் ரசத்தை வழியவிட்டாறோ அதுபோலவே ஜீவனேவில் கதறக்கதற அழவைத்திருக்கிறார், அதிலும் கோரசை ஒரு கருவியாக பயன்படுத்தி பிரிவின் பிரம்மாண்டத்தை கேட்பவர் கதறும் அளவுக்கு இசைத்துள்ளார். மற்ற பாடல்களிலும் ஏகப்பட்ட வித்தைகள்…
முன்பு அம்மா சமைப்பது போல என ராசா குறிப்பிட்ட போது அதை சரியாக பொருளில் புரிந்துகொள்ளவில்லை, ஆனால் கடந்த ஒரு வருடங்களாக உங்கள் புதிரினூடாக பயணித்த அனுபவத்தில் சொல்கிறேன், நம்மிடமிருந்து எதையுமே எதிர்பாராமல் நம்மை இப்படி மகிழ்விக்கும் ராசா நம்மெல்லோருக்கும் தாயும் தந்தையுமானவர். ஏன் அதற்கும் மேலாகக்கூட…
Superb M@ster, Thanks a lot 🙂
Just came across this. Wonderful Rex! Could have done for the full song.
Have been continuously listening to mugilO mEgamO and jeevanE for the past 20 days. I felt Karthik & Shreya would have sung the duet version of mugilO mEgamO. But I didn’t like chellam and enna vENdum much. kaLvanE was quite good. putham pudhu kAlai gave me a feel like Anitha singing in an IR concert. Janaki’s original can’t be matched.
Same here, Arul. I haven’t been able to get out of “Mugilo Megamo”. What a blissful arrangement of strings! Wow! I liked all the songs, including “Enna Vendum”, except some lyrical lines as well as the female singer 😦 In “Enna Vendum”, I am bowled over by the guitar strings and the peppy beats. In fact, listen to it in a calm ambiance and you can appreciate the beauty of the orchestration in the 2 saranams. Likewise, Anitha was a poor choice for “Putham Puthu Kaalai”. Yet, overall, I am still going steady with “Mega” and “Onaayum Aatukkuttiyum” 🙂
The only reason, I couldn’t do it for the whole song was due to the IP issues 🙂
Nice to see your comment after a long while. LOL 🙂
Sorry for the delay as I just saw now.