Dear friends
I would like to make a list of arr songs as per subject theme
1) Kaiyil Midhakum
2) sowkiyama
6) Kannukku Mai Azhagu
7) Narumugaiye
8) lukka chupi
9) Azhage Sugama
10) Nila Kaigiradhu
11) ennavale
12) jiya jale
13) margazhi poove
14) puthu vellai mazhai
15) kwajha mere kwajha
16)
--- On Tue, 8/31/10, yeshrao81 <yeshra...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: yeshrao81 <yeshra...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [arr] Re: Roja..........still sounds amazing........and my take on
general trends....
To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 7:38 PM
Great reading AJ!
i tend to agree that the breathing space in songs is a little less
nowadays...Also simple and catchy melody/tune is losing prominence to probably
complicated song structure making it difficult to hum or remember the
tunes....Can anyone suggest why this is happening??...is this intended to be
his signature or is Rahman just pushing himself too hard and experimenting to
create a whole new dimension in global music...
But I am not saying his complex tunes are not good in quality...they are
absolutely marvellous in quality and making one introspect his music much
more...and making us think a lot!
Some of his best melodies are simple tune with minimal arrangements...Listen to
the following to to understand what I am trying to say!This is a random list
that came to my mind :)
1)En Mel Vizhundha
2)Athankarai Marame
3)Uyirum neeye
4)Kaiyil Midhakum
5)Rasaathi
6)Kannukku Mai Azhagu
7)Narumugaiye
8)Porale Ponnuthayi (Sad)
9)Azhage Sugama
10)Nila Kaigiradhu
--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "AJ" <purev...@...> wrote:
>
> Can't believe it.......heard Roja today after ages and the sounds are still
> so clean, fresh, and breezy...not sounding that outdated at all, despite it
> being 18 years old. Amazing compositions for ARR's debut......melodious,
> sweet, earthy, straight to the heart.
>
> If there was one thing that I liked about ARR of the 90s that I don't hear
> much of these days is that ARR's songs back then had a lot more breathing
> room.......there was more space in the songs and the song arrangements were
> not as dense as they are today. The songs just breathed easier back then it
> seems, if I were to make a very broad and general comparison to today's
> songs. ARR also used minimal loops and more spacious arrangements, so you
> could hear more of "silence" in the slower compositions. "Tu Hi Re" is a
> great example of that. I hope you understand what I mean. Again, these are
> just observations of mine. I like his past songs equally to his current songs
> in general, but there are some broad differences, signifying Rahman's
> evolution as an artist and adding and subtracting elements of his
> compositional style and sound over time. I am just bowled over how NONE of
> his songs from the 1990s sound outdated whatsoever even today. That says
> volumes.
>
> One more thing......songs in those days...1990s to early 2000s in general
> were more "Indian" sounding....not just with ARR, but with other MDs too. The
> trend in bollywood and perhaps other industries too is to have more Western
> and global musical styles in film music with gradual shifting away from the
> ethnic Indian flavor of songs.....not completely, but the trend is there. ARR
> too used to have more "ethnic Indian" sounding albums back then, even for
> contemporary films like Saathiya, Taal, Dil Se that were not period films.
> Later, the "Ethnic Indian" sound would be confined mostly to period film
> scores or situational numbers, but with some exceptions. Delhi 6, Raavan, and
> Jodha Akbar are the 3 most Indian sounding albums recently and look how
> beautifully all 3 music albums were received and raved about. I think a lot
> of people are missing more of the "Indian" Rahman. Rahman's music over time
> has become more "international" and less "Indian" as a
general trend....again with exceptions here and there.
>
