This is not a post to complain or gripe. As much as I'm enjoying ARR's international music of late, I sure wish he'd compose for a film again with better scope for more traditional Indian semi classical music and Sufi music. Of course, in Delhi 6, we heard quite a bit of folk/semi classical/Sufi music and that's the last album we heard ARR in those genres. When will be the next film we hear ARR compose such type of music? I don't know. Does anyone know?
I can truly understand members missing that type of music from ARR, which he composes more infrequently these days. It's no reason to dismiss ARR's music of today, which is more techno and rock/guitar oriented in general. The Indian soul is not missing in ARR's music of today, but the style and structure are a lot more Western and international than what we used to hear earlier this decade and before. This is what I feel some people are talking about when comparing ARR of the past vs. ARR of the present and I can certainly relate to that. Once again, let me reiterate....Rahman's music to me is about exploration....different musical directions and moving away from familiarity at times with experimenting. In that vein, I appreciate the "artist" side of Rahman, whose music is often freely evolving and shifting, very much in sync with ARR's need to maintain a stream of creative inspiration and creative movement. For ARR, creative stagnation and only playing it safe and familiar is worse than risking alienating traditional listeners. That is a point we must understand.
