Raja, the genius

This site attempts to showcase the Indian musical genius - Ilayaraja and his work with both Western and Indian Classical music over the last 5 decades.

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Blog trivia

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If you are visiting this site for the first time, it is important to read this post. The intention of this blog is to present arguments in...
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Saturday, April 15, 2023

SJ – Orchestral vocal instrument - Several (1980s)

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This is a catch all use of SJ’s voice in several orchestral modes in a single track. Every track in this post will contain more than one tec...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

SJ – Orchestral vocal instrument - Strumming (1980s)

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  Strumming is a staple technique with guitar and several Raja compositions use this technique. However, there is one song, where Raja uses ...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

SJ – Orchestral vocal instrument - PolyCaRe (1990s)

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 PolyCaRe is a Raja specialty, and we covered this in a number of posts a few years ago. This is basically a Call and Response arrangement ...
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Sunday, January 15, 2023

SJ – Orchestral vocal instrument - Counterpoints (1990s)

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The use of SJ in Raja’s counterpoint compositions continued into the 1990s also.  The first track is the prelude from the song, ‘ Ponnil Vaa...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

SJ – Orchestral vocal instrument - Counterpoints (1980s)

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Readers regularly reading this blog will be familiar with counterpoints and their usage by Raja. There were several posts dedicated to Raja’...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

SJ – Orchestral vocal instrument - Harmony (1990s)

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 The technique was not used by Raja is a big way in the 90s with SJ’s voice. However, I found one example of him continuing this in the 90s ...
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