Kanavaa, New Channel ID & News
Finally the three of us got together after a period of 16 months! Sure it was a long and painful gap for us. We (Shyam and Praveen) went to India during our month long fall break. We also upgraded our studio with new equipment. Two new workstations (Korg M3 Workstation and a Yamaha Motif XS), a new condenser mic, and a pre amp are welcome additions to TSJ STUDIO :). The keyboards are really great but we didn't get enough time to explore them fully. However, we did manage to do some music. Composed two songs and two jingles.
Thanks to our singers, instrumentalists and lyricist for coming by our place and helping us for without them we wouldn't have been able to finish these songs/pieces.
Kanavaa
Credits
Vocals : Karthik Krishnamurthy, Anusha Pradeep
Lyrics : Ilaya
Music: Shyam Prasan Praveen
Song recorded and mixed at TSJ STUDIO, Chennai.
Started of with this one(probably the next day we landed in Chennai). It took us a long time to finalize the tune. All three of us were totally out of form (reminded us of Rahul Dravid at Melbourne!) and it took us few days to come back to our normal groove. Also had to spend a long time in learning the new synths and browsing through those tone banks and effects.
Karthik Krishnamurthy is Shyam's cousin. He is currently in SFO and he does quite a few stage shows in and around SFO. Luckily he had been to Chennai that time and we called him to sing this song for us. Thanks so much Karthik, for your time and effort. Hopefully you had a better experience this time around, as compared to the song that we recorded five years ago!
Anusha Pradeep, many thanks to you for rendering your beautiful vocals. Anusha participated in a music competition hosted by Vijay TV ( Vijay TV Paadum Office) and she won the first prize in Carnatic Vocals. Congrats Anusha :).
Channel ID
We started working on the Channel ID and News during Summer 07, but never got a chance to complete it that time.
These two jingles are for a Tamil Channel and for a News Channel and both the channels(managed by same group) are shortly to begin its broadcast in U.S.A.
Credits:
Vocals : Nehru ,Shyam, Banumathi
Veenai : Chandrika
Music: Shyam Prasan Praveen
Song recorded and mixed at TSJ STUDIO, Chennai.
News
Music: Shyam Prasan Praveen
Song recorded and mixed at TSJ STUDIO, Chennai.
Labels: Anusha, Channel ID, Ilaya, Kanava, Karthik, Korg M3, Motif, News, Prasan, Praveen, Shyam, TSJ, Veenai
posted by TSJ STUDIO @ 5:58 PM
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40 Comments:
great work, how about putting out a lounge cd ? ;)
and am waiting for the rerelease of folk!
Guys,
This song just rocks. I especially liked the interlude. I have around 4 of your songs on my "Favourites" playlist in my Ipod and here is the 5 one added :).
I only hope that you guys throw out whatever you are doing and start composing music full time :).
I have always been a fan of your music and this song just reinforces my belief :). Great Work! More songs please!!
Makkale welcome back and needless to say you guys rock as usual.
Enjoy your holidays.
Seriously you guys should come out with an album.
Hey, good to see you guys back with music! Are you still in India or back to US?
very cool song guys, i am a big fan of your ragasiyam and was waiting for a long time... its worth a wait, what a song, it is so melodious and the vocals were amazing, keep up the good work guys!!!
Hey Ravin thanks so much. We think we still need to improve a lot before getting into album or movie stuff. But if we get some good opportunity we will sure try work on it.
@Manoj - Yeah we wish the same thing too. Just waiting for the three of us to complete our studies. Glad that you liked this song.
@ Ganesh and Dhiraj, thanks for listening...we hope to update our blog more frequently!
@ Jo - Praveen and I are back in the US now. Prasan is in Chennai. We hope to work with you soon!
Shyam
wow you guyz rock! i'm listening to Kanavaa for the 3rd time now, such an awesome vocals and orchestration...way to go team!
Beautiful composition and arrangement ....god bless you guys !!
I normally dont do this but ...its been the 6th time I am listening to kanava ....very very melodius.
@ Roshni and Harshan, thanks for your comments!
This is my fav song now. My friend introduced this blog to me. I just love this song.
Thanks for such a good song.
Awesome composition, orchestration guys... :) Vocalists also has done gr8 job...
Hi- First time to your blog and i must say Kanavaa song is very harmonious. Will keep visiting. Cheers & good luck
Hi, i hav been visiting your blog to find new songs every now and then..Kanavaa, Very few songs give you a smile as u listen to a song and Kanavaa just has all tat :)
As the song progressed i was expecting more outstanding Rhythm arrangments and yes my expectations were met for sure..An amazing track with beautiful vocals and arrangements..
TSJ team:
Welcome back and finally I am kinda settled to hear songs after all the moving and shifting. It is always refreshing to see you back in action.
That said, a hiatus could either refresh and instill new blood or could let you accumulate rust. I am afraid, this song is more indicative of the latter.
Strong influence of some previous songs, for example neera..theerththam pOndra theeya - shows up in the first line kanavaa itself. Arpeggiated orchestration has been a strong point of your compositions always. however, in this song I cannot escape the feeling that the arpeggiated patterns offer nothing new from azage azage. I think that song was artistically crafted and well executed by your team and you are yet to get out of its understandably strong impressions.
Karthik's vocals are fine. But Anusha's vocals are a mixed bag. She has some brilliant moments but goes flat in many places too. "neeyada" in two places need subtle improvements. The aalaap in the middle has a strong flavor of "raat bhar dhuaan chale" (jiya jale) at the end emphasizing that there should have been a little more thought in the construction of the aalaap.
Also, while I admired the way Karthik enunciated each word thus bringing out the flavor of the lyrics, Anusha has pronounced the words without much emphasis. I know it is trendy to sing 'light' on words, but believe me this 'trend' was apparently an aberration by Sadhana Sargam (who was struggling to get the tamil right) which got unmitigatedly propagated as a 'style' much to the dismay of lyrics lovers. You cannot ever see a legend like Chitra or a talented singer like Sujata sing verses 'light'. More stress on syllables would bring out the contrast between them thus lighting up the entire song.
You set yourself high standards in the earlier songs. It would be difficult for music lovers who follow you to see you slip.
Great to see a new song up after checking the blog every day :)
Nice stuff as usual, though it doesn't make a striking impression like azhage did for me. Keep up the great work, guys!
Btw, your post mentions two songs and two jingles, you've only uploaded one song. You'll be putting up another some time soon?
Hi Guys
Your music is too good. I am hearing this for the first time and its great. I went to Chemistry tuition with Praveen. I still remember, one day I called him to enquire about the tuition timings and he played me Vaseegara song on the numbers of the phone. It was amazing.
Kanavaa song is amazing. The music, the voice, the lyrics, everything is really cool.
All the best guys for your future. Waiting to listen more songs from you.
Cheers!!
Anand Iyer
Sorry guys for our late response... School kept all of us really tight for past 3 - 4 weeks. Just got some time during spring break :)
@atomicarena : thanks for istening to our song and say our thanks to your friend :)
@santosh: thanks for your comments will sure pass it on to our singer.
@chitra and Musicman - thanks guys for listening. Really glad that you liked the song and brought smile too :)
@Murali : Murali thanks so much for your time and for your valuable input. Coming to the song, yes we do realize that we are using alot of Arpegios, we are sure trying to come out of that ring.
hmmmm not too sure about the influences.... we were sure not influenced by "Jiya jale", may be we should have taken more care while doing the interlude, anyways thanks for pointing it out :). Anusha's vocal was recorded on our last day @chennai so that probably one reason why we din't concentrate much on her syllables. Nevertheless it was our mistake for not taking care of it...
Murali thank once again for time... And we appreciate all you guys for always giving us another chance to improve and helping us by listening to our song and giving us your feed back. Hopefully we will do something better in our next song.
@kanna and Anand Iyer : Thank you so much for checking our blog regularly and thanks for your comments . Please keep visiting our blog regularly and we are hoping to get done with our next song soon. Thanks for pointing out the bad link guys. Will fix them shortly
kanava is pleasant song. a suggestion - increase the tempo a bit, may be it will lift the song further.
This song is just amazing...Good luck guys...
Ahhh..I am going to bookmark this page...I wish I knew this site before...amazinggggggggggg jobbbbbb....it's just sooooooo awesomeee...
Sorry, tamila pesanum la?...semaiya kalakiteenga...enakey padanum nu aasa vanthuchu..=D
Intha comments a lam padinavunga papangala?
I hope they do...because if anyone ask me who my fav singer is, i would really say (from all my heart) that u guys are!!!!!!!
Hi Guys,
You people really rocked in Kanavaa. Expecting some of the best melodies for you Guys.All the best.
Regards,
Sriram.S
You guys are doing great job... "Ragasiyam" song is superb and i'm addicted to that song ...
Keep Rocking like this ...
Regards,
Vikku Raman... :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGHZbXKy2YU
anon, if you're the one who made the video, please credit Shyam, Prasan and Praveen in the video info. Their music is professional enough to be mistaken for a film song, as shown by the Ragasiyam issue, and there's no need to allow for random rumours when people see the song online. :)
Hi guys!!! Needless to say you are rocking. There is no doubt that you guys have your own style of composition.Keep up the good work.I need a small information from you guys. I wish to set up a small studio in my house .I don't know what sort of budget is needed and i am looking for some basic recording stuffs only.Could you guys give me some guidance ?
TSJ...
First time to your blog.. Kanavaa was amazing... Congrats and best of luck to venture into full time composing...
Hey guys! Glad to see you listen to your newer compositions... really cool... Always a fan! Praveen are you these days? give me a call/send me your number (chellamanis@gmail.com)
Good luck on all your ventures!
Hi!
When I listen to a song, I dont care about the instruments used or the thinking behind it or how technically perfect it is . as long it makes me feel pleasant, positive or meditative, I am fine with any genre of music.
and that's why I like the Kanava song. It reminds my fiance and me of our early days of courtship and the innocent romance we shared when we first started out 6 years ago :)
Keep up the good job guys!
I love this song Kanava... I accidentally came across this song as a wrongly posted new movie song in youtube... I am really glad I did... Please dont ever stop making awesome music like this... Your music is fresh and new and you have very talented singers as well... I hope you guys release a CD soon :)
This song is too good to hear!!!!
Good soothing music...I heard many times and would love hear again and again...Good job guys!!!
hi TSJ guys ur song is hosted in youtube as asal promo song....Check it out....
hi tsj group.. nice to hear all your songs man.. very good vocal from anusha and shyam.. can i get there pics too.. please upload in your blog. many people will come to know, and your latest song kanava is really superb. waiting for feb14!! yupieee, i am gng to dedicate this song for my girl friend..
post your twitter,facebook or orkut to share,
This is awesome and hilarious...Thanks to ASAL videos..I was able to find you guys..
Kanava song is very very pleasant...
I keep listening to it many many times...
I got this in web saying it's from a new movie. I watched the movie first day & found this song is not there.
Then made a search to know from where this has come... ;)
Hard to believe you guys have done such a MASTER PIECE...
Keep producing more & also make genuine effort to get to spotlight...
All the best..!
Kanavaa song is incredible! Though I couldn't make out anything from the lyrics but composition felt like soothing my ear drums with velvet paws. Thank you so much for rendering such a masterpiece.
enna guys when you releasing this album??? feb 14th you told.. eagerly waiting boss.. valentine special..
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