Couldn't agree more. The lyrics play such a fantastic role in this album - a perfect match for the divine music.
Hats off the Prasoon Joshi. -A On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Vithur <vith...@gmail.com> wrote: > Film maker Rakeysh Mehra, composer A.R. Rahman and lyricist Prasoon > Joshi come together after Rang de Basanti to give one of the finest score in > years for Delhi-6. The sum total of all the songs from the movie sounds > completely different from Rang de Basanti yet there are a lot of > similarities: the album has some of the finest compositions of Hindustani > Raga based music yet it has enough contemporary sound to make you groove. > The moment you switch on the album it takes you on a journey of the old > walled city through its lyrics and music and that itself is a triumph for > the composer and the lyricist. Anyone remotely connected to the ways and > culture of old Delhi would instantly identify with the music. > > Like Rang de Basanti the album opens with a religious prayer, an Aarti as > opposed to the Gurubani in the earlier album. While the Gurubani was short > Aarti Tumre Bhavan Mein is slightly long but equally calm and spiritual. The > album gets going with the second track Arziyaan a Sufi Qawwali in praise of > Nizamuddin Auliya and many other Sufi saints which is a long standing > tradition of old Delhi. Javed Ali has finally proven why he has become the > chosen one for the genius composer. He has put his soul behind this song. > This is a major step up from the likes of Guzarish and other modern songs he > has belted out in recent past. Arziyan steeped in pure Hindustani > traditional singing style with tablas, harmonium and chorus with very > challenging Antras is a triumph for Rahman, Prasoon, Javed Ali and Kailash > Kher who after a long time has shown why he is the best at this genre. > > It would almost be impossible for someone to replicate Ustaad Bade Ghulam > Ali Khan's thumri Bhor Bhaye for a Hindi movie. Shreya Ghosal is chosen to > perform this impossible task and she comes out sounding better then ever. > Except for one small blemish of a screech at a high note, Shreya has > rendered this thumri as only the Mangeshkar sisters would have done. > Newcomer Ash King sings the next song Dil Gira Dafatan in a soft and > sensuous voice as required for this slow romantic ballad. The song sounds > quite different from any Rahman number so far. With just a non stop minimal > chords and sudden strains of violins once in a while this song has some of > the Urdu vocabulary you would find only in a Gulzar song. Genda Phool, a > folk song, has all the ingredients of Namak Ishq Ka including the lead > vocalist Rekha Bhardwaj. The melody and the singing style though traditional > folk, Rahman fuses it with some modern techno beats. The outcome is simply > great. > > If Khoon Chala from Rang de Basanti established Mohit Chauhan as a singer > Masakali will propel him to big league singing. Easily the most popular > song, not necessarily the best, Masakali relies heavily on the phonetics of > the lyrics which forms the basis of the song set in an unusually low scale > to begin with. Mohit from the low scales goes up to a falsetto mouthing the > complicated lyrics efficiently over a steady rhythm and accordion being the > main instruments used. Hey Kaala Bandar falls in the same category as > Masakali but is more retro and funky with loads of English lyrics > interspersed with Hindi. The song though remains the weakest link in the > whole album might just become the most popular with the young listeners. > > No Rahman album is complete without him donning the role of a singer. So > Rahman gets behind the microphone for Rehna Tu giving a sterling rendition. > The song mainly driven by the melody and lyrics, Rehna Tu sounds completely > serene and soulful. Tanvi Shah, Claire and Vivianne joins Blaze and Benny > Dayal for the title track Delhi 6 reminiscent of Khalbali and Pathshala.. > Though the sounds are very much similar the structure of this title track is > more layered and the lyrics descriptive of the city. > > Delhi-6 is as much Prasoon Joshi's album as much as it is Rahman's. Both > compliment each other so well that it is difficult to imagine one without > the other for this wonderful soundtrack. The year 2009 has already achieved > a benchmark with this album and it would take an inspired effort by others > to surpass it. Just the song Arziyaan for its Sufi traces, devotional lyrics > and soulful singing is worth every penny of this album. > > Source: p l a n e t r a d i o c i t y . c o m > > http://delhi-6.co.in/2009/02/prasoon-joshi/delhi-6-is-as-much-prasoon-joshi%e2%80%99s-album-as-it-is-rahman%e2%80%99s/ > > -- > regards, > Vithur > > > > > -- -A http://viewsnmuse.blogspot.com
