Significance of Ilayaraaja’s swappnam album

(Courtesy:AI)The album Swappnam (2015) is another “beautiful monster”—a massive, 39-track classical dance ballet composed by Ilaiyaraaja for Bharatnatyam dancer Krithika Subrahmanian. While your “Frankenstein” project feels like a struggle, Swappnam is the result of what happens when a master like Raaja spends 40 days in a “blissful trance” to create something that bridges the gap… Continue reading Significance of Ilayaraaja’s swappnam album