Inside Man....

'Chaiyya Chaiyya' - we know that this song rocks, we know that it haunted us for a long-long time when it was released and we know that it still haunts us...like most of Rahman's works.

This part of the world though is slowly but surely discovering more and more about Rahman. Bombay dreams, some remixes of his songs in Brit club mixes, Bombay Thems, Lord of the Rings and now another biggie ....A Rahman song opening the title credits for a mainstream Amru movie. A Rahman song rocking an american movie hall playing a mainstream commercial movie.

As it turns ot, the whole song played even at the end of the movie ...while the credits were being displayed ...

I culdn't but help smile and feel proud about this yesterday night ......when I was watching the movie ...

Rahman rocks ...he rocks like no one else and some people just got a taste of it.

As for the movie itself, cool one, worth every penny ....

-A

Back to you ...

Heard a lot from my collection of rock over the past few days, a lot of Jazz and tried a bit of Blues too. Liked it, luved some of them, but in the end, felt that they missed something ...

The completeness, the magic, the melody ...the Soul .....

Am back to you Rahman ......
The way you weave your magic, I don't think anybody else can. The pure depth in your music cannot be compared to and cannot be matched ....

Have been Hearing Dil Se (the title song) in a loop .....and each time I hear something new in it ...last I heard it it was a strange tune ..that I even though plays on and on during the course of the whole song, is prominent only at the fag end of the song when the rest of music has almost ceased. I think that Rahman now is at that level where he plays with music and musical instruments and just thinks, what next should I create magic with :-).
Good for people like me though ......I live and I breathe his music ....


Saw some people posting requests to rate songs of Rahman and make it number 1 etc. A humble request to such folks - please do not diminsh the greatness of this man by such talk. His music, his magic and his greatness are best represented by his humility, his silence with words and letting his music do the talking ....Do we really need to vote and rank and try to elevate him by such petty things ...feel these are just mere writings and mere rubbush ...

I know that you folks really adore Rahman's music but I fell that if u really respect and adore this Rahman and his music - just hear his music, yes write appreciative posts and discuss that ...that ought to be it ....

Rahman is much above all this ...he is at a place where other music directors, I feel can only dream of ...IMHO, there is no comparison ...and IMHO, rankings, ratings if such a thing exists all begin at no. 2 ...at least for me ...they will always be like that ....

This is from my Dil Se ..... :-)


-A

You are beautiful ...

Back to Bedlam - James Blunt

and what is this doing on my blog ...well for starters, I liked it ....and where does the Rahman connection come in ??? well ...this is something that Rahman liked too (read that somewhere) n is hearin these days :-).

So I heard the whole album and I must say, I am hooked on ...hooked on to the extent that I now own both the acoustic Live version as well as the normal album version of this album ...
Brit Rock I feel, has always been in between Rock and Pop and this one is no different. Coldplayish in style, this guy sometimes sounds a wee bit like David Gray too .....but then its different. Good use of the guitar and the piano but the voice modulation is the one that does the most to pull you into each song ....

Easily, 'You are Beautiful' and 'Wiseman' win the battle amongst the 10 songs on the CD (12 on the acoustic version which also includes a cover of the Pixies - Wheres my Mind).

Its been some time since I have heard one whole album by one artist (of course I am not including Rahman into the list:-))

Go get it ...

Dave Gilmour is out with a new one too ...I started my journey in rock thru Floydd and so nething from them is a must-hear if not a must buy for me .. - Its called 'On an Island' - not bad though not great too ...

-A

Birthday cake...

a wonderful cake baked by my girl ....for my bday .....Good job ..lady ....
Not the best of birthday's healthwise though ...was in bed for the entire day with a high fever ...so the only drinks allowed were 'hot water' and 'hot rasam' ....

I completed yet another year on this planet couple of days back.....and now have been listening to Rahman for 14 years :-)

Know what - sometimes I feel that I have made so many people listen to Rahman ..rather forced them into it ...that I feel funny about it. Well ....to think of it ....I did them good though ...or else their lives would have been empty ..he he

And I quote Richard Corliss on rahman ...so true this is ..

"Rahman doesn’t even write what’s thought of as world music. He writes a world of music — so broad and deep, so instantly likable and lastingly satisfying, it is the whole world. I hope that, sometime soon, our part of the world catches up with Rahman. Until we do, an important part of our internal juke box will be bereft. "

in what he refers to as "our part of the world" - he means the US ..I guesss

Hadn't written in a while ...still in bed ..not fully the normal me. But felt like writing about the cake and ofcourse Rahman :-)

-A