Songs and full credits at the end.
A nice hummable melody and sprightly guitar-led backing – Thoominnal is composer Rahul Raj delivering on home turf with ample help from the impeccable Haricharan. The first interlude is particularly well done (once again a mildest hint of reethigowla that I sensed) with Josy Alappuzha’s flute solo. Composer does even better in Rambo, doing a wonderful nod to the disco-style yesteryear film music, layering the arrangement with all the definitive elements (some excellent guitars from Sandeep Mohan). Vijay Yesudas does well delivering the vocals, with support from Rahul Raj. In an equally impressive instrumental version of the song, Francis Xavier takes the lead with his violin. The tone of the violin lends beautifully to the grooviness of the track! Halli Sreehalli is the only track that doesn’t quite hit the mark. As any Malayali would derive from the song’s title, Manu Manjith’s lyrics here carry references to the classic sequence from Thenmaavin Kombathu including the movie’s title Muddugauv (the alternate title of the song is Umma paattu). That trivia aside though, the song comes off as average. Not entirely devoid of interesting moments though – OK Gopi’s naadaswaram and Chinmayi’s singing (joined here too by Rahul) deserve mention.
Muddugauv. Same number of tunes as Rahul Raj’s other soundtrack that also came out last week, and equally entertaining.
Music Aloud Rating: 7/10
Full Credits
1 – Rambo Rambo
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Music Composed, Arranged & Produced by – Rahul Raj
Lyrics – Manu Manjith
Vocals – Vijay Yesudas
Addnl Vocals – Rahul Raj
Keyboard & Rhythm Programming – Rahul Raj
Acoustic, Electric & Bass Guitars – Sandeep Mohan
Strings Performed by – The Cochin Strings
2 – Halli Sreehalli – Umma paattu
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Music Composed, Arranged & Produced by – Rahul Raj
Lyrics – Manu Manjith
Vocals – Chinmayi Sripada & Rahul Raj
Keyboard Programming & Rhythm Programming – Rahul Raj
Nadaswaram – O.K Gopi
3 – Thoominnal Thooval
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Music Composed, Arranged & Produced by – Rahul Raj
Lyrics – Manu Manjith
Vocals – Haricharan
Keyboard & Rhythm Programming – Rahul Raj
Acoustic & Electric Guitars – Sandeep Mohan
Flute – Josy Alappuzha
4 – Rambo Rambo – Solo Violin
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Music Composed, Arranged & Produced by – Rahul Raj
Keyboard & Rhythm Programming – Rahul Raj
Solo Violin – Francis Xavier
Addnl Vocals – Rahul Raj
Acoustic, Electric & Bass Guitars – Sandeep Mohan
Strings Performed by – The Cochin Strings
Engineers
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Rahul Raj @ IndiaSoundZ Productions
Nikhil Kakkochan @ Freddys AVG ,Cochin
Hari Shankar @ My Studio ,Cochin
Mixed & Mastered by – Balu Thankachan @ 20dbSoundstudios,Chennai
Assisted by – Avinash Satish/Sethu Thankachan
Special Thanks – Sethu Thankachan, Michael Kottayam
