Dissolution and Bondage

I have been hearing this song more than 20 times now.
Always find something new every time I hear.
Song from "Keralavarma Pazhassi Raja".

Chithra in her beautiful voice is blowing me off each time I hear it.
She is a perfectionist in terms of rendering songs.
There is not even a single off-note, single off-pitch in this song.

Lyrics by ONV (one of my favorite poets, happy that this great poet got Jnanapeeth this year) is superb! In the second stanza, the place where she comes to ask Lord Shiva to accompany her beloved, I am no more! just intoxication, dissolution..:-D

The raga that Ilaya Raja (he is a Periya Raja in terms of creating tunes) chose for this song is Abheri. It can expresses intense longing, happiness, and a sort of weakness or vulnerability (no words to describe:-) at the same time.

Beautiful bondage

Voice has been a passion; 

I might forget faces, but not voices.

I have no freedom from them.

I am happy with that bondage;

because you see, my Master has the most beautiful voice in this world!

~JoyGD

Song from “Story told by a Sufi”

Using her broken bangles a lady tries to draw a picture.

This creates a lot of mess:-D

Finally she transforms herself into fragrant fumes of camphor.

This song is so beautiful, has a good transition in between to a muslim song and comes back on track. 

The means and end of any art form is to dissolve your self.