My iPod usually decides my mood for the day. Sometimes it is the guttural John Denver with his 'You fill up my senses', or BJ and her classic Bharathiyar song 'Suttum vizhi chudaar dhaan kannama'. On other days it is ARR's 'Luka Chuppi' or my new found favorite astapathi, 'Rathisukasaare'.
But today started with the racy 'Nakka Mukka'. :)... Please listen to understand how it feels to get jerked out of sleep!! It admonishes you for being in bed and gives you an inferiority complex with its speed. Phew!! I even got tired after watching this song on TV once.
And true to this fast paced number, it has been a crazy day :)
But today started with the racy 'Nakka Mukka'. :)... Please listen to understand how it feels to get jerked out of sleep!! It admonishes you for being in bed and gives you an inferiority complex with its speed. Phew!! I even got tired after watching this song on TV once.
And true to this fast paced number, it has been a crazy day :)
4 comments:
wonderful post
would have been nicer, had you listed more of your favourites with full reference to sources.
if you wanted more stability in your emotions and less dictatorship from ipod, try listening to clarinet quintet in A major by mozart – K 581
take it with the severe punctuality of a diabetes patient taking her insulin or the clockwork regularity of the planetary motion. you will be infected and imbued with its sweetness and ethereal buoyancy.
(a correct performance would do, though it would marvelous to be lost in a great performance like the one by a young sabine meyer on clarinet with the philharmonia quartet, berlin – denon : 38c37-7038 – rec june 25 / 27, 1982 - cd release in 1983)
or at the other end of the spectrum, get subsumed in Nisdin Barsat Nain Hamare (Surdas) {Lata – non-film treasures – music : hridaynath mangeshkar - emi / rpg cdnf 1.54015 – rec 1957; cd release in 1993} to hover over the many cares we (have to) have and to feel a sense of profound gravity.
{but then, the casualty would be the loss of the searing intensity that often sets your blog apart}
God, I am back to backing the point you made and I set out to remedy !
and, who wants to compress the amplitude of emotional seesaw anyway.
may be it is like the strange cocktail lyrics of rajaji’s ragamalika “Kurayonrum Illaii” - defiance, devotion, detachment, longing or humility – whatever it is, it helps us to discover ourselves – (like one beautiful spirit whispered, in passing, on the ides of April, 2009 – “The references that I unconsciously make to my own life while reading a book”)?
I was tired after listening to just the first verse of nakka mukka
@ surabala
Thank you...I wanted to link every song i mentioned, but couldn find the links :P about Mozart, i am still trying to listen to the Bach composition you sent me...I dont really understand them..but i am trying :)
'Nisdin barsat' is already my favorite, thanks to the wonderful CD I treasure :)
@ Varada
lol...:)
bach, especially his vocal music, is an acquired taste growing slowly on you. you entered the deep end but not too bad since the mass, though a deep affirmation of faith, is suffused with serene sweetness - let me share (by means of an e-mail) some of my most blessed moments to keep you steadfast on the path to discovery
but you will be surprised by the spread of the instant amour with the clarinet quintet. so don’t be put off by the technical stuff or the (relative and idiomatic) unfamiliarity. all chamber music is designed to be played by a small group of musicians playing mainly for their enjoyment (the closest that western classical music will come to our own variety).
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