My first recording experience
It was on a Saturday afternoon in October when Bharath called me up and asked me to come to a recording studio.
I was assuming it was for a voice test and was preparing myself to sing something good. But no, he just showed me the lyrics, played the already recorded music with the male voice, then taught me the tune, told me that i have to fill up the blanks.
It all sounded so easy for me and i walked inside the recording room with so much confidence.
Standing in front of the highly powerful microphone in the sound proof room, putting on the hi-fi headphones, believe me, I was so damn excited thinking "Wow, this is just like how they show in movies!".
The music was on, and i started the pallavi and continued in the way i would normally sing, i.e shaking and moving my head. I wasnt even aware that this would result in my voice fluctuating.
Then they decided to record it line-by-line. I was still singing in the way i had perceived the tune. But what Bharath wanted out was totally different. I infact took lot of trials/takes before my first line was through. Now, i sort-of realised that it was not an easy business. Yeah, i was realising that i should not be singing in the way i want to, but should be trying to sing in the way how the composer/the creator of this song wants to. After all, it was he who has took so much pain to give the tune a shape. How much he would have thought and imagined how the tune should be!
The pallavi has my voice in double-track i.e I had to sing on top of my already recorded version. It was not easy as i had to maintain the same voice and sing in the exactly same way and pattern. It was again a learning time for me and i felt how difficult it is to sing something in the same way as you had sung before.
It took almost an hour to finish off my part in the whole song. I should really thank Bharath and the sound engineer who was recording the song, for their patience and perseverance. :)
I met Bharath in one of the cultural events in my office when he had released his first album "Ka-sa-da tha-pa-ra".
I found it to be a very brilliant work and i have always found his tunes to be very catchy. I could remember almost all the tunes in his first album after listening to them just once.
His brother Prana is the lyricist. If you are a regular reader of Kalki and Ananda vikatan, you already have read quite a lot of his poems and hi-kus. The lyrics are so real, original, and what more - pure!! I can call it 'kalappadam illadha tamizh'.
Infact, this song manam unai marandhida ninaikkiradhey which i have sung has a "situation" associated to it. Imagine this as a duet sung by a heroine and hero after they have a small quarrel (oodal). The girl says she wants to forget this guy but she cannot. The guy tries to console her saying that it is all so natural/common in love. Finally the guy wins her heart back.
And, can you believe that the person who has sung this song with me (Mr.Somnath whom i have not met still) is not a Tamizh and speaks Telugu??
It was indeed very surprising for me when i listened to all the other songs in this album, and learnt that i was the only Tamizh-speaking person involved and all the others were not.
About the instruments used in this song, Mr.Somnath has played the classical guitar bit which comes in the song. The rest of the music has been created only with keyboard.
I'll try to give links to all the songs in the album once it is officially released.
It was altogether a wonderful learning experience for me. Now i know what all i wont do when i sing my next song.
Sometimes when i listen to my own song in my ipod, i doubt if it is mine as i never thought i would all happen. :)
I was assuming it was for a voice test and was preparing myself to sing something good. But no, he just showed me the lyrics, played the already recorded music with the male voice, then taught me the tune, told me that i have to fill up the blanks.
It all sounded so easy for me and i walked inside the recording room with so much confidence.
Standing in front of the highly powerful microphone in the sound proof room, putting on the hi-fi headphones, believe me, I was so damn excited thinking "Wow, this is just like how they show in movies!".
The music was on, and i started the pallavi and continued in the way i would normally sing, i.e shaking and moving my head. I wasnt even aware that this would result in my voice fluctuating.
Then they decided to record it line-by-line. I was still singing in the way i had perceived the tune. But what Bharath wanted out was totally different. I infact took lot of trials/takes before my first line was through. Now, i sort-of realised that it was not an easy business. Yeah, i was realising that i should not be singing in the way i want to, but should be trying to sing in the way how the composer/the creator of this song wants to. After all, it was he who has took so much pain to give the tune a shape. How much he would have thought and imagined how the tune should be!
The pallavi has my voice in double-track i.e I had to sing on top of my already recorded version. It was not easy as i had to maintain the same voice and sing in the exactly same way and pattern. It was again a learning time for me and i felt how difficult it is to sing something in the same way as you had sung before.
It took almost an hour to finish off my part in the whole song. I should really thank Bharath and the sound engineer who was recording the song, for their patience and perseverance. :)
I met Bharath in one of the cultural events in my office when he had released his first album "Ka-sa-da tha-pa-ra".
I found it to be a very brilliant work and i have always found his tunes to be very catchy. I could remember almost all the tunes in his first album after listening to them just once.
His brother Prana is the lyricist. If you are a regular reader of Kalki and Ananda vikatan, you already have read quite a lot of his poems and hi-kus. The lyrics are so real, original, and what more - pure!! I can call it 'kalappadam illadha tamizh'.
Infact, this song manam unai marandhida ninaikkiradhey which i have sung has a "situation" associated to it. Imagine this as a duet sung by a heroine and hero after they have a small quarrel (oodal). The girl says she wants to forget this guy but she cannot. The guy tries to console her saying that it is all so natural/common in love. Finally the guy wins her heart back.
And, can you believe that the person who has sung this song with me (Mr.Somnath whom i have not met still) is not a Tamizh and speaks Telugu??
It was indeed very surprising for me when i listened to all the other songs in this album, and learnt that i was the only Tamizh-speaking person involved and all the others were not.
About the instruments used in this song, Mr.Somnath has played the classical guitar bit which comes in the song. The rest of the music has been created only with keyboard.
I'll try to give links to all the songs in the album once it is officially released.
It was altogether a wonderful learning experience for me. Now i know what all i wont do when i sing my next song.
Sometimes when i listen to my own song in my ipod, i doubt if it is mine as i never thought i would all happen. :)