The Blast is the first Indipop

Indian pop

Indian pop music , often known as Indian-Pop, Hindi Pop, Indipop or Indi-pop, refers to pop music in India. Pop music really started in the South Asian region with the famous playback singer Ahmed Rushdi's song ‘Ko-Ko-Korina’ in 1966...

 studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Indian

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 musician Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, singer and occasional lyricist. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil as well as several Telugu films. His musical career began in 1996, at age 16, as he composed the film score for Aravindhan...

, released in July 1999. It features 12 tracks, which were all composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja.

Production

Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, singer and occasional lyricist. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil as well as several Telugu films. His musical career began in 1996, at age 16, as he composed the film score for Aravindhan...

 started working on an independent studio album, even before stepping into the Tamil film industry, working as a film composer and music director

Music director

A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...

. It was, in fact, this album, which made possible his entry into film business, since producer T. Siva approached and eventually assigned him to compose the score for his 1997 Tamil film

Tamil cinema

Tamil cinema is the film industry based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to the production of films in the Tamil language. It is based in Chennai's Kodambakkam district, where several South Indian film production companies are headquartered...

 Aravindhan

Aravindhan

Aravindhan is a 1997 Indian Tamil film written and directed by newcomer T. Nagarajan, starring Sarath Kumar, Parthiban, Nagma, Oorvasi, Prakash Raj and Visu in lead and pivotal roles. The film marks the debut of noted music composer Yuvan Shankar Raja, musician Ilaiyaraaja's youngest son, and the...

, after having listened to a couple of tracks, Yuvan Shankar had composed from this album.

He worked for nearly 2 years on this album, which finally got released in July 1999. But since he wasn't popular and not a household name yet during the time, his album went totally unnoticed and failed to gain attraction, though featuring some very popular artists as actor Kamal Haasan

Kamal Haasan

Kamal Haasan is an Indian film actor, screenwriter and director, considered to be one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema. He is widely acclaimed as an actor and is well known for his versatility in acting...

, Carnatic-based singers Nithyashree Mahadevan, Unnikrishnan and Srinivas

Srinivas (singer)

Srinivas 'Srini' is an award winning playback singer who has sung over 2000 songs in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He is also a music composer.-Early life:...

.

According to Yuvan Shankar Raja, the album is based on the thought of World Peace

World peace

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. He tells, that during the time, he was working on this album, India was carrying out Nuclear testing

Nuclear testing

Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the effectiveness, yield and explosive capability of nuclear weapons. Throughout the twentieth century, most nations that have developed nuclear weapons have tested them...

, which he had used as the inspiration, from which also the title is derived.

Track listing

1. "Oli Veesum" — 6:09
2. "Nee Thane" — 5:56
3. "Chippikule Muthu Pookkal" — 5:43
4. "Poovea Puthirae" — 3:50
5. "Oru Naal" — 3:05
6. "Mama Mama" — 6:52
7. "Poradu Poradu Poovodu" — 5:45
8. "Vaa Nanbane" — 3:38
9. "Mama Mama" (Instrumental) — 6:51
10. "Sonnare" — 5:56
11. "Unn Ninaivai" — 4:21
12. "Aval Devathai" — 2:24

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Malaysia / India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...	July 23, 1999	Pyramid Audio Pyramid Saimira Pyramid Saimira, an Indian multinational entertainment company, operating in 6 countries is one of the World’s fastest growing entertainment group...	CD	8839
North America North America North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...	July 28, 1999		CD

Personnel

Following people are credited:

• Vocals:
  • Yuvan Shankar Raja
    Yuvan Shankar Raja
    Yuvan Shankar Raja is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, singer and occasional lyricist. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil as well as several Telugu films. His musical career began in 1996, at age 16, as he composed the film score for Aravindhan...
    
     (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12)
  • Kamal Haasan
    Kamal Haasan
    Kamal Haasan is an Indian film actor, screenwriter and director, considered to be one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema. He is widely acclaimed as an actor and is well known for his versatility in acting...
    
     (tracks 3, 8, 12)
  • Rajalakshmi (track 3)
  • Srinivas
    Srinivas (singer)
    Srinivas 'Srini' is an award winning playback singer who has sung over 2000 songs in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He is also a music composer.-Early life:...
    
     (track 4)
  • Unnikrishnan (track 5)
  • Nithyasree Mahadevan
    Nithyasree Mahadevan
    Dr. Nithyasree Mahadevan, also previously referred to as S. Nithyashri, is an eminent Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages. Nithyasree's paternal grandmother, D. K. Pattammal, and her granduncle, D. K...
    
     (track 5)
  • Nagoor Hanifa (track 6)
• Lyrics:
  • Sujatha Rangarajan
    Sujatha Rangarajan
    Sujatha was the pseudonym of the Tamil writer S. Rangarajan, author of over 100 novels, 250 short stories, ten books on science, ten stage plays, and a slim volume of poems. He was one of the most popular writers in Tamil literature, and a regular contributor to topical columns in Tamil...
    
    
  • Vasan
  • Parthi Bhaskar
  • Kavi Ravi

External links

• The Blast at MusicIndiaOnline