I would like to clarify, after reading many posts.. I see people still telling, mridangam used in Undress... Its not mridangam, the instrument used is the Ghatam... its a pot made of clay and superbly played by the great Vikku Vinayakram and his son Selvaganesh...
I wonder who played for Rahman.... Niven --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, pratap <pratap_elen...@...> wrote: > > > > > > AR Rahman > has announced the release of his first Hollywood original motion picture > soundtrack, > post Slumdog Millionaire on his Facebook page. The Vince Vaughn, Jason > Bateman, > Malin Akerman starrer, Couples Retreat, centered around four couples who go to > a island resort to work on their marriage, has 15 tracks by A R Rahman, most > of > which are instrumental. > > Cashing in > on the Rahman buzz, producer Vince Vaughn has put up the entire soundtrack of > the movie on a website created especially for live streaming of the > tracks, www.couplesretreatsoundtrack.com > > though the > movie has an official website of its own. The album hasn't been released on a > physical medium yet, and is only available online. > > The album is > largely instrumental in nature, as the songs are likely to be used in the > background of the movie, as opposed to in song-and-dance routines that > Rahman's > music has mostly been used for in India. And clearly, the maestro has > showcased > his prowess over different genres of music, as the album would have a bearing > of his Hollywood career. > > So you get > to hear plenty of Western classical and a few Indian classical sounds, that > are > poles apart from the music of Slumdog Millionaire, which had a more pacy, > modern, up tempo feel to it. Most of the instrumentals in the album have an > operatic orchestration, ranging > from dark, frenetic violin-piano based themes that give it sense of an > impending > twist-in-the- tale (Meeting Marcel, Shark, Itinery) to fresh-as-morning, soft > and lighter operas (Jason and Cynthia > piano suite, Waterfall, Animal Spirits).. > > 'Though none > of the tracks are overtly Indian in nature, Rahman does leave a stamp of his > roots fusing classical Indian instruments with western sounds. Check out > 'Undress which is a stunning miridangam-veena-bass guitar fusion. In fact, the > best tracks of the albums, including 'Undress', are ones that have the Indians > touch to them). > > 'Salvadore, > that fuses Kailash Kher's gorgeous alaaps with a part-Spanish, part-Arabic > tune, is a treat to the ears,  as is âSajnaâ > one of only three songs with words, that has Rahman's soulful interlude of > 'Sajna', with romantics English lyrics apparently sung by Vaughn himself (as > Google > would have us believe). Also check out the superior 'Tour of the villa' > instrumental version of the same too. > >  > > More glory to Rahman > >  > > The > best track on the album is undoubtedly 'Kurukuru > kan', a soft, part-classical, fully-awesome > Tamil track, again sung by Rahman,  that's as bright > and sunny as sunshine,  and even > has the sounds of birds chirping in its background. The other tracks on the > album have the Hawaiin/Carribean flavour to them, since  the movie is set on > one such island. 'Nana' is a fun, groovy number with a caribean-style rap, > and so is 'Lau', > with its Congo drums and > country music. > >  > > With its vast soundscape and shades of Indian-Western fusion Couples Retreat > can only result in extended Hollywood glory for the 'Mozart of Madras', who > has taken the word > by storm. > > > > http://indian-music-bgm.blogspot.com/ http://www.facebook.com/elensar5233 > > > --- On Sat, 9/26/09, Abdul Manaf <amana...@...> wrote: > > From: Abdul Manaf <amana...@...> > Subject: Re: [arr] HT on Couples Retreat > To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com > Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 9:33 PM > > > > > > >  > > > > > >  > Can any one type what HT's opinion about CR? Becoz in uae we can't access > Flickr..com > >  > On 9/27/09, Gopal Srinivasan <catchg...@gmail. com> wrote: > >  > > > > http://www.flickr. com/photos/ arrahmanfans/ 3957916914/ > > > > -- > Regards > > W/P SHJ >
