Hello Chord, Good that you brought this topic. No doubt ARR is a master composer and we are nowhere close to him in judging what is good. However here are some of my honest opinion and I'm only talking about his recent works (last 3-4 years) and no point comparing to the oldies of 90s and late 90s.
List of what I'm looking for as a change in ARR sir's music. 1. Sometimes the crescendo (change of scale or introduction of odd sounding tune) in songs like Dil Ka Rishta, Kahin To (JTYJN)sounded unpleasant to hear... Can this be avoided? 2. Usage of minimal instruments (like a soothing guitar riff, mellifluous piano, violin, sitar, sarangi and soft percussions) and less of background accompaniments and too many instruments would be better for hearing any day. This is missing at times these days. We need more of these...dont we?? 3. Flow of tune is inconsistent and patchy at times (very few cases). No amount of instrumentation and layering can match the class behind a master tune. May ears might be better tuned for smooth flowing tunes that are distinct rather than sudden twists and turns that are less comprehensible. 4. While I do agree due to commercial reasons, ARR has to quickly deliver a hit rather than focus on evergreen melody and life of the song, I would rather encourage as a fan that his songs be richly melodic and satisfying musically / be heard by just a few rather than be crowd pleasing and less classy. 5. Sir could avoid making music for amateur directors....they are spoiling his outputs. Dont dilute...work only for the best in the industry who have a sense of extracting the best...like Gowariker or Rakesh Mehra or Maniratnam or Gowtham menon or Shankar; even though it means 1 or 2 album per year, it would have the potential to be masterpieces... 6. I felt some of the masterpieces of ARR are from period films like Bose, JA, Lagaan etc...Why not keep synth based sounts aside for a while and use native instruments and sounds used in such period films for mainstream commerical movies??? We need more of Sitars, Banjos, Cellos and many such original instrument sounds. 7. While Benny, Krish, Naresh Iyer, Blazee, Javed Ali etc...are great, I find the voice of Sonu Nigam, Srinivas, Hariharan, Alka Yagnik divine and completely melting. They would certainly be delivering songs with much greater finesse and expertise. Somehow miss these people at times. We are probably getting an overdoese of these new comeres. Please reply more on this topic. Regards, Yeshwanth --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "Chord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This post is less of a complaint and more out of curiosity What > exactly do you want in Rahman's music that you are not hearing in his > music today? Please be specific like in terms of instrumentation, > sound, melody, harmony, percussion, etc. I'm really curious to know, > because I hear this with each and every single Rahman release in the > past several years. The tone of many reviewers also is revealing, as > if they're thinking, "Rahman composed this song or this style of > music? HOW COULD HE? It's so beneath him! He can do better than > this! Not at all up to his standards!" Karthik's milliblog review of > Ghajini has the same exact tone, like "HOW COULD HE?" It's like if > ARR doesn't come up with a Jodha Akbar each time with semi classical > music, the soundtrack is not up to his standards, and some even said > that JA was not up to his standards! > > Everyone is entitled to their opinion and to express it, fine. But, > I'm curious to know exactly what you are missing in Rahman's music > today. Take the albums he has released in 2008. If ARR is not living > up to his own standards in 2008, why? Please explain in detail! >
