Yeah agreed to your words chord, fans can learn so much from A.R. cheers biju
Chord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mathew,
I am very impressed, touched, and grateful for your post in providing
us insight into Rahman's mind and heart. He is THE modern day
rennaisaance man as far as I'm concerned and I so much appreciate his
mindfulness and peaceful attitude towards the worldit allows him
to make music so untainted and so pure. He has the ability to
channel all his sadness and frustration and transform into something
to pure and beneficial to society. We all can learn so much from
him. His relative innocence (not naivete because I think he's aware
of the world and practicalities) and pureness of heart touch me each
time I listen to a haunting piece from him. He communicates so
much.
Thanks for the message in the bottle. His views combine the best
of Karmic Hinduism (love others and be kind) with Buddhist
mindfulness (be here now), while retaining his true devotion to
Islam. It's just awesome.
--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Matthew Islam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To respond to the part where you feel its too depressing an issue
to talk
about parting with AR as a person...I'll tell you
what the boss generally tells me and now that I understand it, may
be I can
share it more properlythe hereafter is important, not
what you
have here...live so that the journey you are a part of now is
filled
with love and kindness..
Bhaiya believes in everything that is positive, calm, peaceful,
white...he seldom watches news because he feels its too
negative...he personally scolded me for swearing (as in not
swear words
but saying stuff like I swear!), he told me once when I was
discussing war
and the civil unrest in Pakistan, my country and Iraq that he would
much
rather not hear more since it affects him and he becomes uneasy. He
is a
fervent believer of Love. Any kind of love. He abhors politics. He
doesn't
quite appreciate distractions to making music because he truly
believes that
its his way of dealing with the world and the process of creating
music is
like meditation to him, I also have a sneaking suspicion that he
feels it
heals his heart of all the sadness of the world he may have hidden
within
him. You have to be with him to really understand to what extent he
believes
in the idea of destiny and therefore is not someone who pushes
anything in
life to the detriment of losing patience...he takes his time
with
everything but thats only because that allows him to live every
moment to
the fullest, I think. I don't think (and this is my personal
opinion) that
he is very career minded. He feels he has been lucky. That he works
hard.
That the music he creates makes people happy, that its a way to
make a
living and that it keeps him sane. That good things happened to
him. And for
which today he is a firm believer in the motto of it will happen,
when it
happens! Everything he is doing now is with the intention to give
back to
the world what he has got from it. With every interaction I have
with him, I
see that.
And BTW, just because he doesn't want to make popcorn music unless
a product
demands so doesn't mean he's lost the edge on that front or isn't
up to date
about the changes in the music world. He knows it like the back of
his hand.
He's updated. There are some really cool stuff coming to us soon, I
suspect-
but nothing at the price of cheapness anymore. Melody is paramount
and so is
experimentation. Oh and the boss likes Gasolina..he didn't tell
me, I
saw an old walk the talk episode where he says so.which
confirms the
fact that he listens to a lot of stuff out there. I have given him
so many
different CD's of different composers. While I think he hardly has
the time
to listen to a lot of other people's stuff, he does though from
time to time
get the opportunity to do just that, especially I suspect while
traveling or
something on the radio or if there is time, if a CD at hand. I
don't know
for sure what he really likes as music because he tells everyone
that he
likes many genres of music but I have a hunch, whenever I have
given him
English Classical Music to listen to, his eyes lit up.he really
likes it
I think...he even jokes a lot about the fact that so many
people have
given him classical compositions from the greats recently, that its
kind of
like we all want him to do symphony compositions and am pushing him
towards
it. I for one hope he does everything.
Anyway, I am ranting now..what I wanted to say was that he
deals with
the negative in life by loving, being kind, charitable, ignoring
whats
depressing and working hard...I suggest whoever finds that a
likable
solution does the same.
Therefore, Chord, you're right in not letting those thoughts of the
imminent
parting we all are going to have to
