Beating around the brain:

It was just another one of the boring day a few years ago. A rudderless surfing the internet when blogs were the craze(when twitter was getting popularity and facebook was getting introduced) when i came across this blog.

The emotional way she described the song(words fail when it comes to bombay jayshree) made me get myself involved, the monomaniac i am, for hours listening to it again and again.

The lighthearted flotation feeling when listening to an enamoring fresh musical rendering for the first time, irrespective of the genre, is one to die for. And the lullaby based on Dhivya prabhandam from Bombay Jayashree which was in 320kbps high quality left no room for complaining about quality either. It is akin to the first shower of the monsoon, when you know that it is going to be repetitive, and with each encore, trying to appreciate it in different possible ways.

Carnatic music is one which i should have acquired properly, nevertheless, i could connect with it subconsciously. Whether i am conditioned to do so, or it is natural is a wonderful subject of study for a psychology student who will never submit his thesis. Oh and the viewing of it from the lens of religion is a whole new unexplored vista!

Comparisons are inevitable: and these music genre tend to restore orderliness for the critic in the mind by setting new benchmarks. It is both a sad and a happy thing to happen, sad because your quest for quality will remove a substantial portion of what is called a new generation music, and happy because you are now a more discerning music listener.

From then on, i am in a state of being lost in limbo(courtesy Inception movie). I couldn't wholesomely get in resonance with any music. Fast numbers appear to be too rudimentary and melodies draggy and text-like. Not that i am not listening to cine music, but the passionate listening has reduced to a state of enlightened moderation.

Professor PV Ramakrishna, who was handling digital communication for me, once retorted in class, "with age and maturity, the frequencies of music appreciation tends towards the middle of the spectrum".

I would be glad if i fall into such a stage from my current limbo.