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----- Original Message ---- From: Madhavan Rajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, 6 June, 2008 11:47:36 AM Subject: Re: [arr] Rahaman defined music and instrumentation afresh Wow! Thank you so much sir for a wonderful post. I'm really touched! Hail ARR! Madhavan.R Love, Music, Peace...and AR Rahman for Life. On 6/6/08, Vithur <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: > Thank you sir... Gentle and sweet words from a gentleman... > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:44 AM, csrao <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: > >> Friends, >> I do not know how much I am qualified or not qualified to say some thing >> on >> this knowledge forum. Though I am with the group for months on, this is my >> first posting. My favorites are almost all the songs of ARR. As a matter >> of >> fact I am, eminently placed to get disqualified from belonging to this >> Group. I do not know Hindi. I do not Know Tamil. I do not have any >> knowledge >> of Music. Above all this, I am aged all of 72 years. But I have a gut >> feeling about and instant reaction to good tunes, good instrumentation >> and >> calm, soothing and vibrant music. >> That day ages back when I first heard songs from Roja, I instinctively >> knew >> that this gentleman arrived to thrill us forever and take us on a musical >> raid of un-scalable and unimaginable heights. He elevated cine music to >> unattainable heights. >> I have a good collection of his Tamil songs which I love many, I like >> all. Daily, I listen to these songs for 2 to 4 hours. They refresh me, >> keep >> me fit and energetic. Arr's uniquness, according to me, I repeat, >> according >> to me,, lies in: >> 1. Treating voice [male or female] as yet another instrument, to be played >> upon. >> 2. Each of his song is a symphony. To reach those heights and lows in 3/4 >> minutes is possible only to him. >> 3. He is a master at creating heavenly interludes which are more often >> than >> not are the highlights of many songs. >> 4. I had never heard any one using drums [or allied instruments] , >> shehnai, [I am not worried about exact names, as long as I enjoy them], >> flute to this advantage. How he introduces weaving them in to the voice, >> takes them, leaving the voice behind, to a solo crescendo and taper off, >> very effectively, yet all in a fraction of a minute, which is humanly >> impossible. He is Blessed, if not he himself is Divine. >> 5. I divide the Indian cine music era in to two segments. PreARR and >> PostARR eras. In the PreARR era we used to ask who sang that song? Rafi >> or >> Kishore. Now we ask who composed it? That is the power duly acquired and >> got >> by our honored ARR. >> I have my own two Play-lists of ARR's Tamil songs. One I play in whichever >> mood I am in. These songs are level-all gems. The second list I play when >> I >> feel I am in good and high spirit! >> In other words, what I am saying is that I adore those, around 70, Tamil >> songs tuned by ARR, even though I do not know the language. Proving, if >> proof is needed, music has no language. Rather It is ARR who proved it >> through millions like me. Let us not enter in to Lilliputian arguments >> over >> that GIANT Musician whose presence amongst us we are fortunate to have. >> The Beauty is I hear his songs even when I am not listening to them!!! >> Thanks to those haunting and teasing melodies and tunes. >> csrao >> >> > > > > -- > regards, > Vithur > > HELP EVER; HURT NEVER; > LOVE ALL; SERVE ALL > Meet people who discuss and share your passions. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/bestofyahoo/
