Ninaivugal – HillShake

It looks like a song created by HillShake labeled Ninaivugal. In fact this is what I want you to think. Yes it is. This song is created by me and two of my friends. We call HillShake our self. We couldn’t even imagine how this happened.

I created some music samples back in 2004 for King. We both dreamt of making songs. But we couldn’t do it as we thought. It took some time to come true. Later that year we found another person with the same hunger. That is Praveen. The trio aimed at many projects but nothing happened.

However in 2006 around June the hunger stroke more intensely, which lead us to pick a track from the older samples and complete a track. This great idea came from the brains of King, who is the writer and singer. So the trio gathered in my home and we started to mould our dream project. We completed writing the song and the music track. The only thing left is voice recording and mixing.

King found a studio in Colombo. Without any experience the trio went to the studio. We had no practice not even seen a studio before. This is a strange experience. New place, new people, we didn’t know who will be in the studio etc.

The studio is in the 4^th floor of a building in Kolpitiya. Climbed the stairs. Knocked a door. “Is this a studio”. “Yes of course. Can I help you?” We introduced ourselves and explained the purpose. “Sorry, this is a photo studio”, the girl answered. Next we climbed another floor. There we identified our studio. Went in. A man came from inside. I peeped through the door to see whether this is the right place. Of course it is.

We sat in the sitting room for about half an hour without knowing what is going to happen next. Only thing that came to our mind was finish the work before 4 and get the bus to home. In between it is blank.

They called us into the room. Familiar equipments such as keyboard, computer, mixer etc. A sound proof chamber in opposite side. We started building the tracks. The sound engineer was really helpful. It took about two hours to finish. The next work is to record our voices. King looked at me, I looked at Praveen, King looked at Praveen. Praveen understood what we are about to say. Went into the chamber. Started singing his part. First take, little bit shake in his voice. 2^nd quite okay. 3^rd one really good. 4^th perfect. Finalized. He sang like an experienced singer. Then King did his recording. And then me.

Then editing and mixing done by the sound engineer. We couldn’t believe that song was created by us. The studio owner himself a singer and performer, gave good acknowledgments.

The song was completed and as we thought we got the bus. We enjoyed that journey. We cannot forget that journey. That is our happiest journey we ever had together. With a successful song in hand, we’re anxious about the comments.

To be continued………..