One song breaks a lot of rules in the album Kanmani. It is about "kadal" or the sea. Its rendered perfectly by Manjari and backed up by the geniuses of Anuradha Sridhar and Bennet. (More on Bennet later).
The song runs over 9 minutes. It doesn't color Manjari's voice with a lot of echo and reverberation like her other other songs. The song ends with nothing but over a minute of waves crashing on a beach. Some of the instruments were recorded when it was raining cats and dogs outside. The rain sound added a certain flavor to the mixing. The next thing is that there the song is not in a hurry to finish up.
This is the last song aka the climax of the album. I did it on purpose. For one, I wanted this song to be easy going and relaxed. When you go sit at the seaside, you don't hurry. You're there to take your time and chill out. Same about this song. You will know when you hear it.
The cyclone knocked out the power here for the past 2 days. I'm blogging right now from my laptop, connected via a mobile connection.
Work on the album and website is progressing well. In about a week you will be able to see the video and sample the songs on the new site albumkanmani.com.
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Rajesh, I am so looking forward to the album. Hope I can be one of the first ones to get a copy soon :)
Please let me know if you hear when any of the channels would be broadcasting the first video. I would love to record it off TV!
All the best!
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