Re: [arr] Rising is superb

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:49:08 -0700

Rawat
 
 - Great review. You touched some real good points. Thanks for breathing life into this group
 
Regards
 
Prasad

V S Rawat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/14/05 6:50 PM India Time, _V S Rawat_ wrote:

1. Those who might not know "mangal" means "auspicious".
And that is what the song is for the album.

Mangal Mangal is the find of the album.

Nice to see Kailash Kher getting so much share of album.
Seems that ARR has rightly decided to make him his regular
like Sukhwinder singh.

I also feel that Kailash's earlier songs (non-ARR) were a
tad louder thus their longevity got restrained. In this
album, his voice has come to very tolerable range that will
make one hear it again and again.

In mangal mangal, at some places it seems as if ARR's has
used the style of aalhaa-uudal folktales of Bundelkhand
region (jhansi area). It was used bappi lahiri in "aisaa
tiir chalaa mere dil par jisakii piir sahii na jaaye" song
of Dalaal.

I feel that this album surpasses Bose in the sense that the
songs of Bose, however good, could not bring the spirit of
rebellion, fight, on-the-move. But mangal-mangal is all in
one song.

The great part is that mangal mangal can't be said openly
patriotic like TLOBS songs or Bose songs. It is like
vandemataram songs which had the spirit of freedom and
patriotism. I am sure that it is going to become very very
popular. Open patriotism switches off some people.

I have yet to identify the differences in the three versions
of mangal mangal. But I am sure that that will enhance the
beauty of this album.

2. This is the album in which ARR has taken care of
chronology. I am not any master in identifying styles and
instruments prevelant in any era, but Rising gives a
clearcut feel that ARR has come up with some old style.
I mean to say that the songs do sound 1857-ish, unlike Kisna
songs which were no 1947-ish at all.

3. on first few hearings, main vari vari reminds of chilaman
  uthegii nahiin of Kisna. The song sounds odd among the
other songs of the album. Maybe someone insisted on keeping
a dance no. somewhere to relax people.

4. Holi song is also good folk music. But I feel that the
freshness of Udit Narayan's voice kills the 1857-ish feel of
the song.

I feel that ARR should stop using Udit Narayan (irrespective
of today's national award) and Kavitha Krishnamurthy. The
voice of these two are so typical that they snatch attention
of the listeners away from music towards the voice.

5. The mood of Rasiya does not become clear in first few
hearings. The song sounds of "separation" but the voices is
not able to convey the pathos. But if it is taunting,
cajoling, chhedh-chhaadh song, then too, the feeling is not
becoming apparant.

Somewhere the singers do oh-aah-oomph like Ila Irun which
sounds a tad out of place, on the verge of being cheap.

6. Could not get the mood of Takey Takey. They seem to be
talking about some market place, unless there is some
metaphor in it. The Chorus sounds overly muted in it. Seems
to be filler song.

7. Al Maddath maula is a confused song. ARR seems to be
doing too many devotional songs, thus these sound
repetitive. This song is not able to raise any clear cut
feeling, of devotion, of submission, of worry, of anxiety,
or helplessness. It has all in a khichadi manner. And after
the halfway, it grows in loudness to become irritating.

Meenakshi's noor-un-allaah was far better, Bose's zikr was
far far better. Vandemataram's songs were far better.

The directors might be using these songs to pull muslim
crowds to theatres and to music. These are like all those
dargah's songs of Manmohan Desai's films.

But, muslim listeners will sure like this song. Thus the
purpose of keeping this song gets fulfilled.

It is sad that ARR is only in this song.

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Javed's lyrics seem to be excellent. His choice of words is
very good and powerful.

I am getting the feeling that the folk beats of this album
are going to extremely popular and it is going to break the
records of Taal. Touchwood.

For that matter, I am from U.P. (Lucknow) thus the music is
tailor made for my liking. I don't know how non-hindi
speaking people are going to find it.

An excellent album.
--
Rawat






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