Listened to Rahman's Chinese soundtrack

last SG · 2005-11-09T00:23:19+00:00

please do listen to the earlier arr made symphonic composition bt it's not from Warriors of Heaven and Earth.Something with a similar style:

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I fact i chanced upoun Arr's music by accident in 1992 at the time of my O'levels....Found a new casette lying on a hot weekday afternoon around and it had an interesting modern cover design and lettering.
Initially i was not expecting anything special but when i played it on my walkman, first struck me as slow moving love songs ( for the info , this was before arr became a pop composer and gone commercial)..Now it didn seem like any average tamil songs ... It was a new expereince, high tech, interesting sounds flowing flawlessly..the song stanzas and raaga structures used were utterly unique, in the sense it slowly grows on yr ear after some listenings..I was learning classical Indian music in '92 and my mentor ( well known teacher and many years experience) commented on arr on that day
" Hmm.interesting i never came across this level of complexity, he has not totally deviated from traditional basics, he had brought it to a different level, so who is this person?"

"I told him i did not know who this stranger is but he did something interesting with this stuff" ...
His reply was " whoever this person may be, he's in a deep emotional state and his music is coming straight from his heart"

then we went on to discuss to see how the overall texture of the songs was enhanced by clever use of sound vs mood

The cassette seems like a lot of tech been used...a new concept in its heyday in the Indian music movie world....As expected, it took everyone by surprise that Indian music had jumped light years forward to this new trend..Interestingly it was a huge leap everyone agrees...Then overnight, arr became a household name.a few months later, others were released and at the same time i still havent noted that the music was indeed composed by Arr
one year passed, and then a half when the pop types were coming in it was during this time i was probably and more aware of this new breed of music that i checked that casette
tapes for the credits.It wrote "AR Rahman" and as i traced back to releases before, i realised that it was this composer all the while been responsible for
all the great melodies . In fact arr real name was Dileep kumar b4 he converted from hindu to islam....It was credited as Dileep kumar in his first release.....Below attached is the pic of arr's first release in its original version casette cover art

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Its easy for any person to use a statement that Arr is commercial or another. I feel that ppl would say that not many could have afford to pull all the styles of the renowned western composers so u just cant make baseless statements. It is sad that Arreven after doing so lot our own ppl try to degrade him. Would no other great composer on this earth does not create a wide range of creative imaginative music which is "in your face" and easy to comprehend
Arr has great music and was somebody famous like Andrew Webber so great to appreciate those master pieces, what was wrong with Bombay Dreams which did not work in India, these were for western audience was based more on western art music and we have to be finding or making more research to pass a comment that he is not good.
Think of a simple thing almost all other musicians in the field in India are inspired by Arr, they are trying to repeat what Arr did a decade back works which were very leap years forward...

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Listened to Rahman's Chinese soundtrack

Does it smell?

Laughing

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yea smells like yr mum's decomposed pu,ssy when i farked her last week..

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