

Overall an album which the followers and believers will find to be a soothing one. Two songs are sung by Sriram Parthasarathy and in one song Bhava accompanies Raja. There is a folk type song as well which is structured as if it is a conversation between two singers. Raja has also reworked on the 'Maa Ganga' song giving it a more carnatic feel. V Dakshinamurthy has tuned Raja's lyrics in Vasantha ragam. One Karaharapriya song, almost structured like a carnatic krithi, appears in this album.


It starts with a very nice song based on Bageshri ragam. So I will give you an idea of what the album contains. This being a bhakthi album it doesn't make sense to 'review' it in the usual manner. Another song is set to the Papanasam Sivan tune 'Eppadi Padinaro Adiyar' and Papanasam Sivan is credited as the music director. One Telugu song, written by Raja, is tuned by his guru, V Dakshinamurthy Swami. There are 10 songs in this CD of which 8 are tuned by Raja. He photo does not appear in the front or the back cover. The cover has only Ramana Maharishi's photo and you need to look carefully to see Illayaraja's name on the CD. Seems that the album is available only in Ramanashram. Got the 'Ramana Saranam Saranam' album from Tiruvannamalai through a friend of mine.
