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It has been 10 years since the Asian Tsunami was struck this day in 2004. At that time, a college student, Sai Abishek, shot a documentary on the aftermath of tsunami and the relief work. It was titled, 'Stories along the east coast'. He had approached me for the background music and that is how this came about. There was a short film competition in his college and this documentary was not part of the competition. But it was screened at the famous Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai on Mar 20, 2005.

In this track, there are 3 pieces. The first piece (0:00 to 0:45) was composed for the titles. But the director wanted a more elaborate and a more emotional piece. So this wasn't used in the documentary at all. But still I wanted to share that. 

The second piece (0:46 to 5:00) in D minor, was composed much earlier and he had liked that piece and wanted to use it in this documentary. So I elaborated a bit, and in the middle I also transitioned to a variation of the first piece (which is in E Phrygian mode) and then came back to the original theme in D minor. I liked the way I had done the scale changes as it was something new for me.

The third piece (5:02 to 6:20) is like a symphonic variation of the 2nd theme.

This was my first musical work for someone else. It was very early then (2005) and I hadn't still got a grip on composing and recording music. I was still using the basic sounds from my PC's Microsoft MIDI Mapper (or something like that). Those are some very very basic sounds you get from the computer. There will be a handful of instruments (128) and they don't sound realistic. I wasn't aware of VSTs or hadn't used any real instruments (except for a flute by Dilip, which doesn't feature in this track). The 2nd piece in this track was played on my friend's (Srini) PSR 2100 keyboard with an in-built accompaniment style. The 1st and 3rd were from the default MIDI sounds on my PC. 

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Stories along the east coast - Background Score

Wind Quintet Version of Roja Poo Adivanthathu
Wind Quintet Arrangement : Karthik Pai
Rendered on Notion 4

Composer of the original song: Ilayaraja
Film: Agni Natchathiram (1988)
Director: Mani Ratnam

Please send a mail to karthikpai88@gmail.com if you would like to have a pdf copy of the wind quintet score for live performance or score analysis.

Roja Poo Adivanthathu Wind Quintet

Play - Chidambara Ragasiyam
Music Composer - Ramgopal (https://www.facebook.com/ramgopal.krishnaraju)
Production - Indus Creations (https://www.facebook.com/induscreations)
Play Director - Vivek Elangovan (https://www.facebook.com/viveke?fref=ts)
Play Producer - Dhigha Sekharan (https://www.facebook.com/dhigha?fref=ts)

The Chase

Karunai Dheivame Karpagame
Vocals: Sai Sundhar
Lyric & Composer: Madurai Srinivasan
Arrangement: Sripathy Ramesh

Karunai Dheivame feat. Sai Sundhar

Mahaan gandhi mahaan

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