that inspires me to listen to some of his old songs as well.. starting with Roja now :)
great post, AJ On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:04 AM, AJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Can't believe it.......heard Roja today after ages and the sounds are still > so clean, fresh, and breezy...not sounding that outdated at all, despite it > being 18 years old. Amazing compositions for ARR's debut......melodious, > sweet, earthy, straight to the heart. > > If there was one thing that I liked about ARR of the 90s that I don't hear > much of these days is that ARR's songs back then had a lot more breathing > room.......there was more space in the songs and the song arrangements were > not as dense as they are today. The songs just breathed easier back then it > seems, if I were to make a very broad and general comparison to today's > songs. ARR also used minimal loops and more spacious arrangements, so you > could hear more of "silence" in the slower compositions. "Tu Hi Re" is a > great example of that. I hope you understand what I mean. Again, these are > just observations of mine. I like his past songs equally to his current > songs in general, but there are some broad differences, signifying Rahman's > evolution as an artist and adding and subtracting elements of his > compositional style and sound over time. I am just bowled over how NONE of > his songs from the 1990s sound outdated whatsoever even today. That says > volumes. > > One more thing......songs in those days...1990s to early 2000s in general > were more "Indian" sounding....not just with ARR, but with other MDs too. > The trend in bollywood and perhaps other industries too is to have more > Western and global musical styles in film music with gradual shifting away > from the ethnic Indian flavor of songs.....not completely, but the trend is > there. ARR too used to have more "ethnic Indian" sounding albums back then, > even for contemporary films like Saathiya, Taal, Dil Se that were not period > films. Later, the "Ethnic Indian" sound would be confined mostly to period > film scores or situational numbers, but with some exceptions. Delhi 6, > Raavan, and Jodha Akbar are the 3 most Indian sounding albums recently and > look how beautifully all 3 music albums were received and raved about. I > think a lot of people are missing more of the "Indian" Rahman. Rahman's > music over time has become more "international" and less "Indian" as a > general trend....again with exceptions here and there. > > > -- ----------------------------------- http://roshanravi.com http://ramblingsoul.com http://cssheaven.org
