Ilaiya Raja's protege, with nothing to disqualify him as a maestro of Indian pop & film music, with The Oscar under his belt, have moved to international music production (one feels a bit sad not coz he is no more "only ours", but is composing less & producing more u:giant banners) still hasn't inculcated the seamless magic of Ilaiya....perhaps one's born with it. Even those inspirational moments of a bliss that is nothing less than sublime, or reveries on a higher spiritual plane, seem to add the element of grandeur to Melody, but not the seamlessness - that seems to be originating from 6miles deep oceanic floors..
It's an incredible shocker to find that many musiconeurotic fanatic followers of the DJ 'genre', identifies music with tags like Trance,Retro,Lounge et al, are simply not interested to dig into Indian Musicology. I find them taking a dig instead, at extinct nonmelodious entities like Ilaiya. I perceive a rebellion in the under-currents of India's metro-society. That's fine. Has been, & shall be. But the 'philosophy' doesn't constitute of Change, one that might've been imminent. It flourishes on Negation. Omnivalent & Omipotent Negation. Just for the heck of it.
Jimmy, Janis, Jim (I choose these names for a different reason that's irrelevant : all of them self destructed at the age of 27 - a hefty price that the flower generation paid with its own blood - a collateral of the Change that swept across the planet in the 60's) affected us, but we didn't forget Pat Boon or Jim Reeves, neither did we mortalize the immortals like Louise Armstrong or Nat King Cole. Flower children still waltzed to James Dean on Prom nights.
Woodstock was a phenomenon. Contrary to its archetypal take on Music of what constitutes the population of India's neo-gen/i-gen/e-gen/gen-next/metro-gen/X.0-gen, Woodstock was not a curtain riser of an era that it is alleged to have ushered in. Woodstock was a culmination of sorts. It validated with a vengeance, it declared to the world right in the middle of the Vietnam war - (a disaster patronized by a spineless United Nations Forum with a 'Penta-gun' gun put to its head) that the music of the one and a half decades immediately preceding Woodstock, has been accepted as part of contemporary culture.
Walk into the CD/DVD collection of a randomly chosen protagonist of i-gen(easy to choose : everybody is a protagonist). I'm not sure whether you'll pick up a cover of digitalized West Coast or Blue Grass jazz...
It's like - Down with yesterday the moment the clock shows 0001 hrs. Music is an important attribute of human culture, both as inspiration or expression. The world wide web of culture seems to be standing on silicon chips. Amen. I intend to watch UEFA matches tonight munching on chips. Lays.
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Anirban Chaudhuri,
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Mumbai, India.
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