It's been a while since i sent out my last song. It was tough to balance the time between work and music and yes definitely the time spent in traffic. During the time I led the Indian Music Team in my college I had seen many talented singers and musicians who always wanted to be a part of the music team. Unfortunately there were only 8 to 10 people allowed to participate in a competition. I always used to feel bad and guilty for such people not getting a chance to be a part of the music team. One such talent was Sushanth Shankar.
Sushanth happened to find me on orkut recently, it was almost 4 years since we met after college and it took sometime for both of us to realize that the passion for music in both of us was still the same. He heard the tracks Mere Saason Mein and Saaton Janam and was overjoyed and appreciated the compositions. I told him that it was in college that I couldn't really do much, but this time I promised to make a song for him. I suggested Sushanth that it would be great to do a Malayalam song. Immediately he remembered his friend on orkut, Sindhu Nair who had written many interesting poetry and that's how the beautiful words for Oru Poomaram came into existence. Sushanth sent me the poetry and it was initially a little tough for me to grasp the words as my knowledge on Malayalam is very minimal. After getting some help from him I was pretty much ready to compose a tune.
December 2nd 2007, I made an arrangement and composed a tune based on it. However there were a few words which were not fitting in or either the word stress was missing out. We realized this after Sushanth came to my place on a weekend to jam, we thought of making the song much softer and slower to capture the exact feel of the song. After he left I sat back and re-arranged the music and got the basic layer done to record the voice.
Jan 6th 2008, the day we did the final recording of the song. I was very glad to have recording on this day as it was ARR's birthday, there can't be a better way to celebrate the legend's birthday other than involving myself in music. Recording process went on for about 3 to 4 hours and most of the voice dumps were complete within a few takes. Both I and Sushanth reviewed the recording a couple of times and it sounded all fine.I had scheduled another recording with Pavan (singer of Saaton Janam). Pavan comes in at 2:00 and listens to the recording we had done. All three of us go on a nostalgic trip to the college days and check the whereabouts of people whom we knew in common. So that completes the recording for Oru Poomaran. I only had the mixing and mastering work to complete which took me more than a week. Added a few additional instruments with a few tweaks in voice here and there and finally the song was complete. I personally felt it was quite a while to have composed a new song and promise you all to bring in more songs this year for sure and yes update my blog at the same time.
I would like to thank Sindhu Nair again for letting us use her amazing poetry Oru Poomaram. Hope we have done justice to you precious words. So here comes Oru Poomaram to begin the New Year with a melody. Happy Listening.
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