So much music around and confused which ones to listen to? The Onmanorama team has decided to help you here. From now on, we will be listing out Top 5 tunes of the week for you by the weekend. The focus will be on Malayalam film music, which has more followers here. But we will not turn a deaf ear to other industries and independent music.
You will also find new lovely compositions from across the world when we feel that they are must-listens. We would try to be as inclusive as we can even when we keep the limit of five tunes per week. It need not be the soundtracks which released that week. But we will not go weeks back to fetch you the tunes.
Here's our first Tunes Weekly. We know this is a bit late for the gone week. From the coming weekend, we would be ready for you early.
Veluveluthoru (Two Countries)
In our music review of Charlie, we told you that Gopi Sunder is in top form. He is bang on with the short album that Two Countries is.
Listed as the last song of the album, Veluveluthoru is the most inventive track of the three. It is so good to listen to Afzal, who usually gets dappankuthu-style songs in Malayalam, being in total control of this song. The chorus and the Western classical loops the song is laced with are stupendous. We would love to know what magical dose gives Gopi's musical mind its high these days.
Akale (Charlie)
We have not heard Malgudi Shubha for a long long time (18 years as per M3DB) in Malayalam. The owner of a unique, captivating voice, Shubha owns this track and Gopi Sunder lets her do just that with minimal, apt orchestration. Free-flowing, spirited singing that feels like a travel of tranquillity towards one's self. Shubha has only a couple of lines as lyrics to deal with here, and half the song is just variations of the word Akale along with her humming. Djembe and strings enhance her vocals and we have a winner in Akale. Gopi Sunder's second entry in this Tunes Weekly.
Ponveyil Veezhave (Jo and the Boy)
Singer Haricharan is no new name to us. The busy musician has some delightful renditions to his credit in Malayalam. Ponveyil Veezhave is an addition to that list. A pleasing melody that deserves the talent of Haricharan. The man behind the song is Rahul Subramanian and it is not fair to tag him only as actress Remya Nambeesan's brother. The composer has made good use of strings for the smooth track, one which you can listen to with your eyes closed. The violins in this one are worth a mention.
Ente Maavum Poothe (Adi Kapyare Kootamani)
It's a fast number, one that composers say is the most difficult one to come up with, but composer Shaan Rahman nails the job and the song yells out loud that he had so much fun making it. All the three main singers (Vineeth Sreenivasan, Shaan, Arun Alat) of this song have the same vocal characteristics and their chemistry works brilliantly. Shaan also ensures the track has its melody portions that sync well with the flow of the song. The Ente Maavum Poothe portion is the high note of the track and it makes you nod your head in rhythm. Rzee intervenes in between with his rap and makes it all the more fun. Thumbs up to this techno-layered song in Adi Kapyare Kootamani from Shaan.
Chenthamara Chundil (Style)
Jassie Gift's solo release in Malayalam as a composer this year. Again, this album is a short one too – three songs. Haricharan and Shwetha Mohan croon this mellifluous duet. The mridangam and veena act as wonderful enhancers to his number.
Christmas special
Another five songs will be here by the coming weekend. As a bonus and keeping with the Christmas spirit, we share another enchanting musical piece here for you all. No barriers of religion and region when we are musical. And this short video tells us just that. Happy listening to Tunes Weekly.
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