Sandham: Symphony Meets Classical Tamil

The album consists of seven songs, a collection of outstanding ancient Tamil Sangam literature poetry with music composed by Rajan Somasundaram and sung by leading singers Bombay Jayashri, Saindhavi, Karthik, Pragathi Guruprasad among others.

Recordings happened in multiple locations across the world including Raleigh-Durham, Los Angeles, Chennai, Kyiv- Ukraine, Jerusalem, Beijing, Rome, London and Mumbai.

Composer Rajan mentioned that Yathum Oore being one of the oldest poem that talks about equality, unity and global citizenship, he composed the song to include 14 genres of musical styles including Indian classical, Western classical, rock, country, pop, calypso, Chinese and Japanese, reggae, rap, Middle Eastern, East Asian and Cuban.

[4] Poet, Philologist A. K. Ramanujan wrote that Tamil Sangam poetry is considered as a poetic achievement of Indian civilization.

Composer Rajan mentioned that when he read a book titled Sanga Chithirangal by writer Jeyamohan, he fell in love with those poems and tried to find any known musical forms.