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Discography
Yoom - Series 4
(Year of release: 2004)
 
Series 4
   
Track List:
  • Yoom
  • Chinglon Laanna Leihoubi
  • Leisa-Leisana
  • Meeramda Leiringei
  • Eibu Nungsi Haibado
  • Paokhum
  • Lemjabi
  • Asha
  • Meichak
  • Engellei
  • Poornima
(All lyrics are written by Tapta)
 

This fourth album of Series is about Tapta’s ideal notion of love and its symptoms in village surroundings. Yoom reminds one of Smokie’s evergreen number, Living Next Door to Alice. The title track Yoom is about a man who fell in love with a girl next door. The boy begins thinking that only he has the legitimacy and the right to marry this beauty who is his neighbour. So, he has been waiting for the girl to attain adolescence and subsequently marriageable age. The narrative of the song also has nuanced criticism of the social and moral impingement on romantic encounters between neighbours. Lemjabi is Tapta’s greatest lyric ever in describing the attributes of a Meitei girl without any negative annotations. The song, indeed, is the fantasy of village boy who has been charmed by the gorgeousness of a girl in his locality. However, his love is an aching kind buried deep within like the dormant volcano. He fantasizes the day when this beautiful girl would come and whisper to him ‘I Love You’.

Chingda saatpi Engellei1, chi-na-dana kenkhiba, ho kalak-eeda, kalak-eeda ... (Engellei blossoming in hills, You dropped without ornamenting the youth’s ears. O I envy you, I envy you...) is a popular folk song praising the beauty of Engellei whose youthful bloom ended in the hills with no one identifying the flower. In the original folk song, the flower fell after beautifully blossoming due a gust of wind. The original folk song signifies the early end of a maiden’s life due to unnatural cause. In Tapta’s interpretation, Engellei, he throws up uncomfortable questions about sex crimes in the state.

Asha in the album is about hope that an innocent guy nurtures for his love life. The song takes note of shattered dreams and events that alter, change or cut short individual hope. Meeramda Leiringei depicts a sad story, albeit in a comical way, about those boys who have left high and dry by their lovers while studying outside the state. Tapta’s overall narration in this album is about gullible romances among village youth.

1. An indigenous Manipuri flower found in hilly terrains during rainy season.
 
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Series 1, Series 2, Series 3, Series 5
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