Just wanted to post my view, since some of us now started to compare ARR with other MDs.
I was listening to Pudhupettai. No doubt it is an experimental album by YSR stanadrs. But if you just carefully pay attention to the composing efforts, there simply isnt any match to what naturally ARR does in each and every album. For instance, there isnt any improvisation in trance or the hip hop loops used in the songs. He simply took the standard trance and hip hop loops and spinned a tamil song out of it. It sounds new, but invidiudal composing efforts arent much. Consider this with What Rahman did for "Oru theivam thantha poovey", "Hey goodbye nanba" and "Fanaah". The effort he has put in is simply mindblowing. Goodbye nanba, has a fantastic mix of Jazz and trance. Im not sure if anyother MD has ever attempted it. The trance elements used in all these songs are unique not a simple rip off. You could sense that the trance effect was custom made for these songs. In the case of other compositions i could only sense that the trance plays in the background and someone sings in tamil in the foreground. There is nothing new in the musical themes with the exception of heavy influence of WOHE. I cant imagine any other single MD in india currently capable of doing "1857 - the rising", "Ayautha Ezhuthu" and "Boys". We fail to realise how difficult is to create period music, do something new that is never done before, make it sound fresh and not jaded, and also make it fit to the movie. That demands quite a talent. We got so used to Rahmans quality, that sometimes we fail to realize all the minor details and the efforts he puts in to these kind of muisc. I always sense a big void whenever i listen to some other MD composition. My ears are so used to ARR standards. One thing for sure. There is clearly a difference between a real genius and someone who aspires to be one. -Krishna Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arrahmanfans/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
